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Show Us Your Collections!
22 August 2022, 06:52 PM
BeeLadyShow Us Your Collections!
Jodi's FB on buttons had me thinking...While I downsized some years ago, I still have the collecting compulsion though I have limited it quite a bit.
Show us your collection...
I will go first..I love flower frogs..They were used in flower arranging long before that horrible foam called "oasis". You set them in the bottom of a vessel and put the flower stems in the holes.
Some high end pottery houses made them but I just go for pretty glazes and some odd shapes...I skip glass and lead/metal to limit the habit (and because I LOVE pottery)...They are easy to display ..just a nail does it. There is a new one on the window sill that needs hanging...blue..my fav color!
Some odd balls, the most unique are on a shelf.
The white one is my fav...it is so tactile, shaped by the potters hand..it just sits in the palm so comfortably.
Cost? As little as $1 at a thrift shop to $10 at antique/junk shops, only one more than that.
What do you collect? Do you have limits or criteria? How do you manage it and share it with others?
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23 August 2022, 03:43 AM
ADI love your collection. Here shops sell a round base with pins sticking up on which to impale the end of stalks.
Your post made me think, what constitutes a collection? Five guitars? Ten books on a rare subject like netsuke? Or three hundred of poetry?
(Also quite like your neighbour's house on the right)
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23 August 2022, 03:48 AM
AD
These are (most of) my collection of binoculars. I use them all, a couple more than most. They range from 6x32 to 16x70. A good friend and a sister also have a couple for bird-watching, I also use them when on holiday, keep a pair in the glove box, and for occasional astronomy.
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Every morrning the soul is once again as good as new, and again one offers if to one's brothers and sisters in life.
23 August 2022, 06:23 AM
QuirtEvansI collect gargoyles. In fact, there's one that sits on a bookshelf over my shoulder during Zoom calls. I tell people he's there to protect me.
23 August 2022, 07:07 AM
Mary AnnaI have an awful heckuva lot of sheet music, but I've seen how neatly some of you organize yours and I ain't posting a picture.
23 August 2022, 07:11 AM
Mary AnnaGot a lotta books, too.
23 August 2022, 08:43 AM
MikhailohCondiments. Our refrigerator top shelf is the Isle of Lost Condiments.
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23 August 2022, 09:43 AM
jodiMik,
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Jodi
23 August 2022, 09:49 AM
jodiOmg, my whole house is a collection. And the garage. Pretty sure I found a piece of rose gold (along with that engraved silver thimble) in that gigantic bowl of buttons I bought for $10. I spent a good part of yesterday afternoon sorting, there are some really beautiful buttons, some from the 1920’s (a decade I’ve been fascinated with lately,
) will post pictures at some point, I’m trying to get ready for my art show at the gallery (I’m so behind, and I keep getting distracted!)
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Jodi
23 August 2022, 10:54 AM
ADMy Mum collected thimbles, and teaspoons, we have boxes of them.
Dad collected violins as investments, sold them through retirement.
Looking back, they really collected memories of holidays all over Britain, we have bookshelves of guidebooks to towns, castles, cathedrals, museums. It was something they could do that was impossible for their parents. We all seem to take travel for granted nowadays.
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23 August 2022, 12:31 PM
AdagioMI have a small collection of Eiffel Towers. And I love fountain pens, too.
23 August 2022, 01:06 PM
Piano*DadI have slowly been accumulating pottery from native artists. Mostly Pueblo and Hopi/Tewa. For the most part I have opted for quality over quantity, and with a preference for living artists. Alas, some of them have passed.
One example:
23 August 2022, 06:42 PM
Steve MillerLove it!
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23 August 2022, 07:18 PM
AdagioMMary Anna, I don’t consider books or sheet music to be collections, really. Maybe because they’re not usually displayed as such? I don’t consider all that yarn in my studio to be a collection, either. It’s just work supplies.
23 August 2022, 07:21 PM
CHASHave an embarrassing bunch of sheet music Not sure whether it is a collection or just carp. By
Calling it a collection I can better justify keeping it.
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