Dragoriana's sudden obsession with rubber duckies made me wonder what other things we cat people are collecting. Even if you only have three, it counts as a collection!
All but one of my collections involve glass, which I've always loved. I collect:
-- Souvenir cloisonne pins from cities, states, Hard Rock Cafes... anywhere at all. I especially love the Hard Rock guitar pins, and I even have the rare Paul McCartney left-handed "violin" bass pin.
-- Beads! Thousands and thousands... so many beads that I can't imagine I'll ever actually get around to making jewelry out of them all.
-- Depression glass, especially marbles -- the greenish kind that fluoresces under blacklight.
-- Random pieces of Jade-Ite -- that wonderful old translucent green dishware. I can't afford a full set, but it's fun to keep an eye out for "orphan" pieces here and there.
-- Old glass insulators from telephone and telegraph lines, hydroelectric dams, etc. I have over 300 of them at this point, ranging in size from a tiny three-inch antenna insulator to a gorgeous carnival glass power insulator that's about a foot wide and almost as tall! Their history is the history of the industrial age... and although they are purely functional objects, never meant to be art, many of them are dazzlingly beautiful!
-- Industrial glass of almost any kind -- including old railroad lantern lenses, glass bricks, tiny glass spice drawers from old Hoosier cabinets, the colored glass housing from airport runway lights... I just love the "accidental artistry" of these things!
So what do you collect?
All but one of my collections involve glass, which I've always loved. I collect:
-- Souvenir cloisonne pins from cities, states, Hard Rock Cafes... anywhere at all. I especially love the Hard Rock guitar pins, and I even have the rare Paul McCartney left-handed "violin" bass pin.
-- Beads! Thousands and thousands... so many beads that I can't imagine I'll ever actually get around to making jewelry out of them all.
-- Depression glass, especially marbles -- the greenish kind that fluoresces under blacklight.
-- Random pieces of Jade-Ite -- that wonderful old translucent green dishware. I can't afford a full set, but it's fun to keep an eye out for "orphan" pieces here and there.
-- Old glass insulators from telephone and telegraph lines, hydroelectric dams, etc. I have over 300 of them at this point, ranging in size from a tiny three-inch antenna insulator to a gorgeous carnival glass power insulator that's about a foot wide and almost as tall! Their history is the history of the industrial age... and although they are purely functional objects, never meant to be art, many of them are dazzlingly beautiful!
-- Industrial glass of almost any kind -- including old railroad lantern lenses, glass bricks, tiny glass spice drawers from old Hoosier cabinets, the colored glass housing from airport runway lights... I just love the "accidental artistry" of these things!
So what do you collect?