Ladies, let's talk collection! What do you collect?

[HollieGolightly]

Good morning yall!
What collector doesn't like talking about their collection?! It drew me right in.
I collect mourning/memorial jewelry from the 1860's and earlier. I have a few pieces that are a little newer. My collection includes hair brooches, lockets... To know that when I am looking at a picture or piece of hair that someone gazed on lovingly just really gets to me. It's very touching.
I also collect a few angels. Everyone says they are ugly. lol I do have to admit that some are "unique" Some from my favorite potter have no faces so I suppose that is what they don't like. They are beautiful to me though. The wings have beautiful movement.
This has been fun thanks for listening to me. I will check in later. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

 

[ambeck22]

Tigers and pandas. My niece used to be afraid to use my bathroom because I have a tiger shower curtain and tiger hand towels. One of my little cousins visited recently and said, "Boy, you really like tigers, don'cha? The panda thing, I think, is from family calling me Amanda Panda all my life, and they are SO cute!!

 

[Wolf308]

Good morning yall!
What collector doesn't like talking about their collection?! It drew me right in.
I collect mourning/memorial jewelry from the 1860's and earlier. I have a few pieces that are a little newer. My collection includes hair brooches, lockets... To know that when I am looking at a picture or piece of hair that someone gazed on lovingly just really gets to me. It's very touching.
I also collect a few angels. Everyone says they are ugly. lol I do have to admit that some are "unique" Some from my favorite potter have no faces so I suppose that is what they don't like. They are beautiful to me though. The wings have beautiful movement.
This has been fun thanks for listening to me. I will check in later. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Oh, I LOVE mourning jewelry! I have always been completely taken with those things. Probably for a very similar reason as to why I like old surplus military rifles. I just can't usually afford mourning jewelry. At least not good pieces I'd actually like to have. I always found them beautiful. I know a lot of people think it is creepy, etc., but really I think all of that stuff was far more healthy than the way we currently treat death.

 

[moondragon]

Moondragon, I'd love to see the place! There's a BBQ place we pass now and again that's called The Purple Pig and their sign is a HUGE purple flying pig!! I COVET that pig, but I don't want DH or me to go to jail, so I've restrained myself!

We were very disappointed a few years ago to find out it had gone out of business - replaced by some other boring restaurant It had been one of the highlights of traveling to that area. The purple pig sign sounds neat, but we wouldn't want you going to jail, either

 

[moondragon]

Wow, I had never thought about collecting mourning jewelry before! What a neat thing to collect.

Ambeck, how funny your niece was afraid to go in your bathroom because of the tiger decor! Pandas are cute, too. We don't have either of those, but we have some elephants and koalas that had belonged to my mother-in-law.

 

[classwife]

A flying Purple Pig....





...it was a dark and stormy night...........

 

[HollieGolightly]

I do 1800's reenacting that's what first got me interested in this. I have always collected jewelry but when I saw that I knew that that was what I felt a kinship to. I will have to post a picture of me in my mourning attire. The pieces are getting harder and harder to find at a reasonable price. So that has slowed my collecting down lol
Yup lots of people think that they are creepy. My hubby is like, ewww gross. I have to agree with you that folks use to deal with death in a better way. I think with life too in lots of aspects.
Hope yall have a nice relaxing Sunday night.

 

[moondragon]

I do 1800's reenacting that's what first got me interested in this. I have always collected jewelry but when I saw that I knew that that was what I felt a kinship to. I will have to post a picture of me in my mourning attire. The pieces are getting harder and harder to find at a reasonable price. So that has slowed my collecting down lol
Yup lots of people think that they are creepy. My hubby is like, ewww gross. I have to agree with you that folks use to deal with death in a better way. I think with life too in lots of aspects.
Hope yall have a nice relaxing Sunday night.

I would be interested in seeing some pictures of some of your collection, sometime, too. I don't know that I've really ever seen any before, or at least realized what it was. I don't think it's creepy, in a way it's honoring who they were.

 

[HollieGolightly]

Hi Moon,
I will see if I can take a photo or two and post them in my profile. Im not sure my camera can pick up the details. The brooches that I have range from half an inch and smaller to I think two inches and they have tightly braided hair in them under glass. They are little works of art.
I look at them the same way you do, about honoring them.
Why am I up so early?! I hate waking up at two.

 

[moondragon]

Between you and Wolf, we have a lot of good caring and safe-keeping going on for memories and honoring of those passed on.

Why am I up so early?! I hate waking up at two.

lol. I'm a night owl, and hate it when I find out that it's already two on a work night, and I'm still up!

 

[Serianna]

Between you and Wolf, we have a lot of good caring and safe-keeping going on for memories and honoring of those passed on.



lol. I'm a night owl, and hate it when I find out that it's already two on a work night, and I'm still up!

I sooo know that feeling... Its 1:15 here and I have to be up early(ish) for a Dr appointment to(morrow)Day **giggle** I'm sleep deprived and wide awake all at the same time and am so excited to finally see an orthopedic Dr that I cant sleep due to checking my list of complaints over and over and over again....

I am a night owl in general though, rarely get to sleep before 2 am, and am usually up around 5 to feed all the animals before it gets above 100 outside. I get to take a decent nap after that is done but having to actually schedule sleep is a very hard thing for me to do!

 

[FranC]

I collect shot glasses and I also have a nice collection of blown glass nicknacks/figurines from dh.

 

[funnyfarm]

Fran! LOVE your new avi!! I also love those little blown glass figures -- they're just beautiful!

 

[FranC]

Thanks funny. Yes alot have colored glass and are quite beautiful. I have a hummingbird one that's my favorite.

 

[janieT]

I love antiques! I collect small china plates and tea cups/saucers. When we lived in MN we had plenty of room for my collections to display, but after our move to CA I keep everything in a glass china cabinet (also antique).

 

[funnyfarm]

Thanks funny. Yes alot have colored glass and are quite beautiful. I have a hummingbird one that's my favorite.

And I love hummers, too, Fran, so I'd REALLY love that one!!

Janie, I love antiques, too, tho more of my stuff is collectibles than true antique! I do have a c. 1900 upright piano that's GORgeous and even tho I haven't played in years, I can't bear to part with it!! And it's HUGE -- takes up half the room it's in!!

 

[CES]

does accumulating count as collecting? or does it have to be deliberate?

 

[funnyfarm]

does accumulating count as collecting? or does it have to be deliberate?

Well, if it does, I've got LOTS of collections!

 

[Lisa66]

I collect art glass. It came about as a result of growing up with parents who furnished our house with antiques. We used to go to a lot of auctions and they would buy lovely fine pieces, refurbish them and then we'd actually use them (kids jumping on them, etc.). Through this, they became interested in art glass and began buying pieces..... this was my favorite thing at shows and auctions.

As an adult I began to buy pieces myself, and my dad has since given me most of their glass collection. I have vintage Tiffany, Quezal, Daum, Washington, Steuben, Loetz and many others, mostly small to medium-sized pieces. I always have my eye out for old glass at antique shops or estate sales. I also love to go to juried art fairs and buy modern pieces..... glass making has become so wildly creatively!

Many pieces I use to hold flowers or to serve food....... I wouldn't use the Tiffany for serving food but depression glass is great for that! My parents had a signed Tiffany lamp with a blown glass shade that my brother and I destroyed when playing around in the living room....... the base still exists, and years later I made a stained glass shade for it.

Here is an example of an artist from Oklahoma city that I love. I have a couple of his pieces.
Toby McGee « Artintheround’s Weblog

 

[CES]

that's beautiful glass Lisa!