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Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 8:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I collect Star Wars stuff.

I also have many books.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I collect unicorns and paper (yeah, I know, lol)

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I collect swords and knives. For swords, mainly the 2 hanged variety. For knives, a number of different types.

I have all the Gil Hibben fantasy series--well, not the 2005 yet, but when it is out, I know Knightpatti will let me know. I have a lot of damascus steel knives as well. When I buy one of those, it's always a hand made one--never production

Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 9:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL - that is a really cute idea! I actually have a greeting card that says something sort of similar. It has many layers all folded on top of each other and then at the end there a frog with a crown on his head and kisses all over him. It's very cute and has long been a part of my collection.

Going off topic a bit, but I have to share this...I just ordered this sterling silver frog prince for Steve as a little present to send to him the morning of our wedding.

frog prince

Frog Prince Charming

This sterling silver frog wears a crown fit for a prince. Choose carefully: As soon as your Prince Charming sees the box with the words, "you are my prince," written on it, he'll know he's finally won you over. Then, when he opens the box, he will find a beautiful token of love. A red velvet jewelry bag protects the frog, so your prince can carry it with him, if he ever needs to be away.


Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 10:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Awwww.....that's SOOOOOO nice Froggie. I'm feeling all schmoopy now.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 10:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
where did you get that froggie? i'm getting all schmoopy too!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 11:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is sweet, Froggie!

I collect swords, Darren collects knives. Most of them are locked in our bedroom closet because I refuse to have them out if they're not locked in a case where the kids can't get them.

I also collect books. Nothing fancy, just things I've read over the years. Kids both have their own collections.

Both of my kids collect rocks. I have no idea how or why this started. It's very strange, lol. They just pick them up wherever they are and bring them home.

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 4:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I collect crystal...anything and everything made of the "sparkly" stuff...

My roommate also collects swords and knives. His favorites are the broadsword and various japanese swords...katanas and wakazashi and other sharp implements.

Our apartment isn't very kid friendly....LOL

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 5:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have never been a collector, I hate things that collect dust.
But lately, I have started to collect little antique shoes and purses.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 5:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a small collection of giraffes and Tweety. Hubby collects everything that is not nailed down. LOL We have a huge collection of books and VHS tapes and DVDs and CDs

Halfunit
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09-02-2001

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

Wargod: Both of my kids collect rocks. I have no idea how or why this started.



lol, War! What do they do with them? Paint them? Stack them? Or are they on a shelf somewhere? In a bucket?

I am obsessed on knowing what they do with these rocks!


Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
War, I collect rocks too. I have collected them from the Lake Erie shore every summer for the last 8 years. We have a friend who has a cottage by the beach and we always go spend a few days there and I love to pick up pretty rocks and bring them home to put in my gardens. I think they are much prettier than mulch. Now ditto Half. What are they doing with their rocks?? LOL

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 9:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL 1/2. Caleb was about 2, maybe 2 and a half (it was before Kota was born) and I took him to the store. Walking through the parking lot, he stopped where they have trees planted surrounded by rocks, picked one up and said "look mommy, rock!" Then put it in his pocket. I took it out and told him he couldn't take it because it wasn't his. He pouted all through our shopping trip and when we got home instead of helping put groceries away he disappeared. He came back, jumped up on his step stool and set something on the counter, and said, "Look mommy, rocks!" That was the first time I saw the collection, and he had about 15 small rocks, no clue where he'd gotten them.

After that I started to find rocks everywhere. On his dresser, in his laundry, in his bed, lol. (And we'renot talking pretty little rocks shaped like things, these are just plain old rocks!) Finally I found him a box to keep his collection in and then he really started collected. Couldn't take him anywhere that he didn't stop to pick one up. Even now I'll walk by his room and see him sitting on his bed with his box of rocks. And the only thing he'll say about them is that he likes rocks. Last week Darren and the kids rode to Dakota's baseball game on their bikes. Came home and Caleb came running over so excited, he had found a rock shaped like an egg. When he went off to stare at his rocks, Darren was just cracking up, Caleb spotted it as they were riding down the street and made them stop so he could run out in a field and pick it up.

Then along comes Kota. Two years ago for Christmas, Darrens mom bought her a jewelry box filled with braclets, necklaces and earrings. It set on her dresser. Not long after Christmas, I found all the jewelry sitting on her dresser, so I went to put it in her jewelry box and found rocks. I don't know when she started picking them up or why either. Same thing though, anywhere we go, she finds a rock to bring home, then we'll sit at home and look at her rocks.

Caleb's box (and he's got it about 3/4 full, lol) is a duraflame box...one of those that fits 9 6lb firelogs. Dakota's using a box that 2 gallons of milk came in from Costco. A few years ago we took Caleb camping (Kota was too young) and he was off playing with a cousin. They came back, he was dragging a rock (too heavy to pick up, lol) and we made a rule then and there about if the rock wouldn't fit in your hands, you can't keep it. So he has a few hundred hand sized or smaller rocks, her collection isn't quite as big but she's a couple years younger and started later than he did, lol. They're very neat with their collections. The rocks stay in their boxes, boxes stay in their rooms, when they want to they go in and look through the boxes and when they're done the rocks go back in.

Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Add me to the rock collectors. Its a family tradition. We sometimes take home rocks from places we have visited. I have a large sea shell with rocks in it from around the world.

I also collect tea pots, old cookbooks, books in general, keychains and magnets from places I've been, globes/maps/atlases, Winnie-the-Pooh related items.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Better not bring those kids up here, Wargod. They will go nuts. We have galcier runoff rivers up here, and the rocks have been getting rounded off for millions of years. Tons and I mean TONS of cool rocks. And out at the beach on the Olympic peninsula of Washington, the beaches are rocks, all these smooth, rounded rocks. They start at the waterline as sort of tiny gravel and then get bigger the further you get away from the water. Fascinating. Cool rocks.

I collected shells from the beach in South Padre Island, TX, this year and two years ago. I kept only the very, very best ones, and I was not a die-hard collector. I have two jars of them as decoration in one of the bathrooms.

Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Landi - http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=11199

Sage
Member

07-20-2000

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Speaking of rocks... a small handful of you may know that I'm a rock lover, and I actually decorate with rocks. I used to collect what I called memory stones from places I had been that were special to me, but now when I see all these rocks, I have a hard time recalling where some of those came from.

The first time I met Juju, when she and Bigdog came to Richland, I collected a special stone that was staring me in the face as we were outside taking pictures. Of course I still have it and remember where that one came from. Coincidently, I gave Juju a special rock I had painted just for her that day too. Oh, and Lancecrossfire was with us too that day, and he received a handpainted rock from me a couple years later.

I have many big rocks waiting to be painted but I just haven't been in the mood to paint for a while. If anyone wants to see pictures of my painted rocks, just click on my name and click on the link for Sage Brush Works.


Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Beautiful, Sage. They remind me of the Ukraine Easter Eggs.

Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hubby was reading over my shoulder and wanted me to include that he collects knives, guns and DVDs.
Therefore our home is also NOT kid friendly.
Also, there is a small room upstairs with a large number of star trek stuff (many autographed and a few crew plaques).

'squeek'

Bluejaxrock
Member

04-23-2004

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 9:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just about everyone in my family collects something. Me-shot glasses. Hubby-beanie babies and old dolls. Older daughter-bells. Younger daughter-Matchbox/Hotwheels cars.
The rock collecting brought back memories of when my older daughter was a toddler. She loved rocks...any kind. They didn't have to be pretty, just had to be rocks. When she was 12-18 months old, she'd sit in the pile of decorative gravel/stone in front of the house and pick up a rock and then suck the dirt off of it then put the rock back where she'd gotten it. Most people thought there was something wrong with her (and me) but my mom just grinned and said she was getting minerals she was missing in her diet. When she was old enough, she painted them. 14 years ago she painted one like a dalmation that she christened "Beezus" (it's even painted on it) and it sits in my office. I always thought she was the only one who painted rocks...glad to know she's in good company!

Sage
Member

07-20-2000

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 12:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just have to share this with you all... it's about one of my rocks. I joined this website called DPChallenge, which stands for Digital Photography Challenge. It's a site that lets you submit photo's for challenges they issue out. My first challenge I submitted to was called, "Rock, Paper, Scissors", which meant the photo had to consist of one or all of those items. Since I am such a rock fiend, I decided to submit a photo of a very special rock that I have. It's called a reptile stone.

Here is the photo I submitted. Wish me luck!



Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 9:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good luck Sage!! Excellent photo BTW...

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You do beautiful work Sage! I love the picture, too.

I also collect sea shells. We go to a nearby island to find them. They are everywhere on Boca Grande!

Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i collected sport cards for one year--1994. i had to stop. our glass-covered coffee table trunk is full of cards. there are 8 underbed storage boxes under my bed full of cards, starting line-ups and any sport-related crap. oh yeah, and don't open my bedroom closet! i could see this getting totally out of hand. for a while, i had to avoid k-mart where they had boxes of cards at the registers....i do have some autographed cards i still love and some michael jordan baseball cards, etc., but the frenzy is over!

i collect byer's carolers and have about 12 of them, including numbered iceskaters limited to an edition of 100 figures.

i used to collect lizzie high dolls. i probably have about 20 left. a few years back, i sold several of them on eBay.

my house collects dust, pets, friends and wine.

my dd and i love everything eeyore.

Cher
Member

08-18-2004

Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I collect signed estate/antique pins or just regular pins