Collections

While on the subject of being true to your passions... here are some passions that people have turned into collections.  I love seeing the weird and wonderful things that people choose to collect and the beautiful ways in which they display them.

You Rang?

My kids thought these phones were hilarious.  How depressing.  Mind you our home phone is a hamburger so they really should be used to not-so-modern technology.  It drives poor Surfer Boy mad as it isn't hands-free and to top it off there is no answering machine.

How could you not want a hamburger phone though, seriously!  It is impossible to take yourself seriously when talking into a hamburger.

Flower Pots

I've started to go through a few cupboards in anticipation of packing up to move out and came across some old tins we had collected at some point or other and couldn't bare to throw out.  They are definitely coming with us so best I pack them up now so Surfer Boy doesn't make me ditch them.  As I keep telling him - you never know when these things are going to come in handy.

Soda!

Proof that anything grouped together can look fabulous.  I guess it helps that these cans are pretty fabulous in their own right but I bet if you stacked, say, tinned tomatoes, you'd get a similar effect.

One item on it's own can get lost but group it with a theme and the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

Collections

I love looking at the weird and wonderful things that people collect.  It gives you such a fabulous glimpse into the person and it is often a surprising and unexpected view.

At our place we have a few collections - Surfer boy collects Lego minifigures, I collect floral teacups, Gidget collects Babysitter Club books and Moondoggie... well he's still waiting to see if Dad will share his collection!

What I have come to realise is that we seem to collect other stuff that we haven't officially admitted are collections yet.  For example, any man who has 9 surfboards from various eras should admit that it is a collection!  I have also realised that Surfer Boy collects antique wooden hand planes that are stashed away in his workshop.  They may be in working order but essentially he collects them for their beauty not their usefulness.  And apparently I am the one who hoards!!

 I do have a few other sneaky collections - I tend to collect forlorn chairs which drives S.B. mad and I can not resist old books especially if they happen to be set in an English boarding school.
Of course my 'gorgeous girls' are a recent collecting joy and I'm sure there are other things that could be classed as collections but I'm not admitting it.

What do you collect?  I'd love to hear about it