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Dead insects Gina!!! Why??"
Hah! I used to do that when I was a kid. I kept them in a cardboard box unt..."
You sound like a bower bird;)
I am a bit of a bower bird, Brenda :) Our house is filled with the things I collect. But I also use them in my art. This is a bat that a friend gave to me: http://www.goodreads.com/photo/author...
And the background for this image is blue tongue lizard claws: http://www.goodreads.com/photo/author...
No creatures were killed or injured in order to make these images!
And Peregrine, I love the sound of your glass box of insects. I have my bat in a lovely glass box. Very beautiful. :)
And the background for this image is blue tongue lizard claws: http://www.goodreads.com/photo/author...
No creatures were killed or injured in order to make these images!
And Peregrine, I love the sound of your glass box of insects. I have my bat in a lovely glass box. Very beautiful. :)
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I collected road kills for photos too. :0 Received some very strange looks from motorists. Of course I didn't keep them! Art makes you do some strange things...
Ashleigh wrote: "And when I can, Harry Potter stuff. I have a shelf dedicated to the books & merchandise that I have"YAY!!! another Harry Potter collector ;)
Just realized I'm obsessed with collecting stuff to go with my favorite books... I have heaps of Harry potter and twilight stuff, I just got hunger games necklace and cd, bidding on true blood bottle and have a lord of the rings ring and costume :)
Scentsy! It's a workless candle! And I just absolutely love them so much that when Scentsy launched in Australia, I signed up to be a consultant! :D
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Im a tea cup, jane eyre and all things creepy collector.
AS well as books obviously ahah :)
AS well as books obviously ahah :)
Of course :) http://sherriwarren.scentsy.com.auHaha it's great stuff, and pet and kid friendly! The wax is food grade so it's not toxic either :)
I love and collect antique rose gold bracelets/bangles, lockets and rings. Expensive habit but I keep hunting it down:)
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Haha it's great stuff, and pet and kid friendly! The wax is food grade so it's not toxic either :)"
Thanks Sherri, interesting. I'll have a proper look at it when I can:)
I haven't collected any for a couple of years because they are harder to come by - the ones I don't have. But I have a very large collection of minature glass spirit bottles that I started to collect when I was eighteen. It's hard to find them in glass now, usually just plastic unless they are special editions. Most of the alcohol has evaporated out of them, but I still have a tequilla bottle that is still half full with the little worm in it.
May I say, that I am 20 and still collect stuffed animals? Haha they're just so cute!
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They are that Sherri!
Haha I even keep one on my bed even though my boyfriend gets jealous of it hehe
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Really? He's a duffer!! lol
Sherri wrote: "Haha I even keep one on my bed even though my boyfriend gets jealous of it hehe"Oh, dear what does this stuffed one look like that he should be jealous...yogi bear?
Haha I'd post a pic but I can't, it's just a small little fluffy husky :)
And he is a duffer! But he's my duffer and I love him all the same ^_^
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That's good Sherri! ;)
I have two giant stuffed animals that I used to use as my pillow because they worked so much better but alas, he gave me an actual pillow to use so that I didn't use them. They're sitting outside in my wardrobe in storage haha.
i'm also a big fan of soft animals, specially soft toy dogs. So, i guess i can consider as collecting it. When i was young i used to collect paper bags, fancy shop paper bags, that almost non-existant now. I also used to collect plustic cards, from old room card, credit cards, loyalty cards, well, you name it i'm sure i got it somewhare. And now, i'm obsess with technology and books. I read books thru my iPad, however, if a book interest me enough, i'll go and get the hard copy and have it in my books collection. For certain, almost every writers events or festivals, i'll definitely spend a lot of $$$ on hard copy books, regardless either i have the soft copy books in place or not.Oh, last but not least, i also a big fan of life art performance, e.g. theaters, musicals, concerts. Naturally, i collect each an every bits and pieces from the event, from tickets to programs to who knows what. :)
Other than books, I collect anime boxsets :P Also, not so much anymore, but I used to be very into Warhammer 40k and Warmahordes, the tabletop miniatures.
I would have collected minature trains if I had the space to set up a house sized minature train scenery thingy.
Oh yeah me too, I've got a friend whose dad has an entire room like that. It's beautiful.
Dead insects Gina!!! Why??"
Hah! I used to do that when I was a kid. I kept them in a cardboard box until one day I opened it and all these little red bugs swarmed out.
Although to be fair, I still have three beetles and a butterfly sitting in a glass box on my shelves.
I collect buttons (sure I'm not alone here?!) and balls and Easter egg wrappings and other miscellaneous shiny things.