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LaTigresse -> RE: What do you collect? (8/25/2006 9:29:54 AM)
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I tried doing this seriously yesterday but my server crashed and I was too lazy to retype the whole blasted thing.
I am a Taurus, I like stuff, I like nice stuff, I hate getting rid of stuff. My stuff has to be visually appealing. Needless to say I still have lots of STUFF! I also tend to go thru phases about certain types of stuff.
I love art, love love love. I have more than I can display without my house being cluttered. But I have a few paintings (good ones not my own) quite a few signed prints, lots of antique stuff. I have a passion for old pinups from the 20's, 30's and 40's. I also have several fair sized scuptures that are pinupish. So yeah, lots of art stuff.
Art pottery and art glass. Not alot, just a few really amazing pieces. Some of the perfume bottles from the 20's and 30's are to die for.
Which sort of leads into my most dangerous obsession...........jewelry. It calls me like an evil siren. Of course nothing cookie cutter or regular boring jewelry store stuff. Usually unique one of a kinds (either the stone or the design) or limited production stuff. Mostly silver but a few great gold pieces. And alot of antique jewelry. I also have a small collection of rare gems, some cut and some rough, that are not set. I have been pretty good the last few months since I sated the gold bangle obsession.
Which leads into my rocks. I love rocks. All sorts of rocks. Everywhere I go I pick up rocks. I have been known to pick up small rocks out of the landscaping in the parking lot of the grocery store. They are displayed all around my house, in bowls, on fence posts, on the floor, you name it. There are a few that I had people cussing up a storm to load into the back of my truck and are permanently placed where they tumbled out of the truck into the yard[:D]
Lately I have had a thing for feathers. I keep finding the most amazingly beautiful feathers that I have been picking up and bringing home from my hikes.
Oddly enough I have a fair sized collection of dolls. Not regular dolls, these are porcelain, more like sculpture, and of famous people like....Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Sinatra........etc etc etc.... kinda cool. I have not added to that collection in years.
Plants, house plants are taking over the living room. Also the perinneal gardens keep getting bigger and bigger every year, especially the roses. I am always adding new plants.
I have lots of antiques, all of my wood furniture (tables, chairs, dressers, etc. ) is antique rather than new.
I also went thru a phase of collecting these little plastic german toy animals. All are of the wild variety, lions tigers bears etc. Ranging from 1" to 4" depending on the type and age. I just could not resist them. Itty bitty bear cubs, armadillo, ostrich........so forth. And I have them scattered in odd places all over the house. The ostrich is on the coffee table by an art pottery bowl full of rocks, the hippo on a glass shelf in the bathroom next to some expensive antique perfume bottles. A tiger peering out of the big jade plant. I am weird.
I also have alot of photos all over the house that I have taken of family and loved ones.
Dog and cat hair dust bunnies.
Books, I just love LOVE books! They are stacked here and there around the house.
I am sure there are other things I have totally forgotten about that I cannot get rid of.
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