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Murphy~I have some (lots)of those needlepoint projects she can have LMAO!!!!!!
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I collect paper. Yeah yeah, I know, we all accumulate the stuff, but I'm talking about nice paper. Stationery, handmade paper, silk paper, rice paper, papyrus, cork paper, foil paper, you name it. I have it all in an expanding file that I have to sit on to close. I actually started a business making handmade greeting cards when I was in high school just as an excuse to buy more paper, but though the business is long since defunct I still keep buying paper...
I also collect Bach. Not just any Bach either, though it's all good; I collect the Goldberg Variations. I have 14 recordings of them on CD, another 6 on casette, and another 8 or 9 on vinyl (don't have a functioning record player anymore though :()... The funny thing is, I know all the music intimately, but I can't hum more than the first few bars of the aria or aria da capo, and only a couple of bars of two or three of the other variations, unless I'm actually listening at the time. Go figure. Anyway, I love the richness and subtlety of the music... For some reason people seem to think I collect rabbits. I have never ever bought a stuffed rabbit, but I have about 30; people spontaneously give them to me without knowing about the rest of the collection --- apparently I'm just a funny bunny. Or something like that. *looking around the room* Oh. Obviously I also collect dust bunnies. I didn't include those in my bunny count, but I think I'm going to open a breeding colony for them. Not that rabbits of any variety need help breeding... :rolleyes: --- sweetstuff |
PF,
I love your monkey collection!! I just can't resist posting this pic.......my family's version of it taken in 1989: |
I don't collect, I mean my nature is to hoard things in case they come in handy but I then get scared about becoming a little old lady with a house full of junk and periodically throw everything out...mmm perhaps this is another phobia...
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egg cups
bells and pig things as a child i always wanted a pet pig still working on it can't seem to get jnd to agree on it yet. |
More Junk Update.
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Had to share this with someone.
In spite of the fact that my last project ended 4 weeks ago and I’m not spending money until I get some of these other irons from the fire:( , I did today. Was driving down a residential street and see a yard sale which is where most of my 3-monkey collection has come from. I stop whenever I have the time and a few extra buck in my pocket. That wasn’t either count today:( . But I stopped anyway;). Now I find one monkey figurine in every 20 stops, but buy some other cleaver piece of junk I can’t figure out how I’ve gotten this old without:confused:. When I ask about the 3-monkeys I’m told “NO, only that thing with them stacked up”:cool:. So here’s No. 87 in my collection. LMAO :D |
OMG that is fabulously hideous:D:D:p LOVE IT!!!!!!!
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EXACTLY!
I love it too. :) |
Tacky Chic to the max...only thing worse could be the woman's leg lamp Darren McGavin had in "Christmas Story"
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I'm looking for that too ;)
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Collect 1/18 scale model cars. Pride is a model of the Mercedes used by the Emperor of Japan in pre-war years. Not the Mercedes, but attached a picture of one of the cars.
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Oh Pantyfanatic!!!!
What a wonderfully gruesome lamp........... I'll keep my eyes out for the leg lamp for ya, but I suspect once I find it, I MAY have to wrestle it out of DH's arms! LMAO (can I have your monkey lamp when you....er...um....well....... when you die? you have my addy! ROTFLMAO!!!!) |
Dicksbro---That is beautiful!Is it really a model?I have;a few friends,that restore old cars.You wouldn't believe;the money;that
they pay for genuine parts! Irish |
Lilith---My favorite(deceased)Aunt;used to collect Tea Cups.Every-
time;that we(parents,wife,etc.)went anywhere;we would always bring her a cup(China).I don't know what ever happened;to her collection.I had moved to another state;when she died.I was a pall-bearer; at her funeral;but I never asked about the collection. She was married to my Fathers brother.I imagine that he gave it to someone.I collected old expensive,motorcycle parts for resale; to customers;to save them money!(Lucas,Bosch,etc.)I sold them all;last year. Irish |
Collections?
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Oh......My! Hmmmmm......I should alphabetize these but here goes.......off the top of my head: (dangerous manuever)
old bottles....I have hundreds (in hubby's business, he digs them up all the time, hopefully finding them before they are blown to smitherines) I bought a few, but most are found. Hallmark ornaments.....all kinds from any source. Some we have date back to 66. Unusual time pieces........anything other than clocks (sundials, hourglasses, etc.) although I have a few "special" clocks that are old and rare. Books........any kind...doesn't matter.....I love to hold an old book and wonder who read it before me. The oldest book I own is "The Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs", dated 1875. When I found it in our attic when we moved in it had been eaten a bit by silverfish but still in pretty good condition. Inside was page #3 of a letter (handwritten in Pa. Dutch) and the closest we can figure from this page is that *Seems there was a scandal in a county not far from here. When exposed, a farmer killed his lover and then his wife......set his barn on fire and then killed himself. All to burn together in hell, I assume! People had shunned them and so as not to make his lover and wife bear his shame, he killed them and himself. I looked everywhere for page #1 but to no avail. Stamps.......first issue and cancelled at the city of source. Example: The day before and the day after stamps from U.S.S.R on Dec. 24th and Russia on Dec. 25th. I think that's how they go, I am not looking at them at the moment but I think it's something like that. These were cancelled in Moscow. I have others....Elvis...on a Graceland envelope, etc. Geezzzzzzzzz......I have so much more to put down here but I am rambling! I really want to post pics of all this stuff and prolly will soon but the reason I started this reply is to tell Lilith of the "almost" collection I was gonna start! I wanted to collect teacups of faces. Three dimensional faces at that! Bailey's (the Irish Creme people) had a novel idea one Christmas and as a bonus at purchase you recieved a teacup designed by a celebrity. I wanted to get the series. I got the first in the series....a cup designed and signed by Helen Hunt. The next year when I wanted the second in the series I was told they discontinued the idea...........aaarrrrrgggggggggg! Included is a pic of my one and only three dimensional teacup. She looks so lonely! OK...I'll shut up now! LOL! |
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