“MY IRRESISTIBLE COLLECTION “, ATC Swap, Open Media, due Dec. 3

This really is a fun & unique theme.

I'm going to lurk and see if I can come up w/ anything. I have plenty to choose from. Do I collect? Seriously? :LOL: 7up, milk glass, matchbooks, kokopelli, small colored glass pitchers w/ clear glass handles. If I think about it there's probably more.
 
Ok Trini, now that you’ve listed some of your fun collections, you do need to join this swap! Seriously, you are always welcome to lurk…but I hope you can join at some point.
 
Glad to see you lurking, Stacy! Of course I was aware of our shared love of Kokeshi dolls!
 
Please add me! I collect thimbles (over 300), reamers (those hand-held juicers, ceramic, metal, etc, over 100) and books (lost count). I'm sure I can share my collections on an atc!
 
Welcome Cleopatra! Your collections sound so interesting. In a collection of small items (like your thimbles), it is amazing the number one can acquire, maybe because they take up so little space compared to other things. My rhinestone butterfly brooches are around 200, and my collection of ladies’ powder compacts are around 150. Glad you are joining us.
 
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Welcome Cleopatra! Your collections sound so interesting. In a collection of small items (like your thimbles), it is amazing the number one can acquire, maybe because they take up so little space compared to other things. My rhinestone butterfly brooches are around 200, and my collection of ladies’ powder compacts are around 150. Glad you are joining us.
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In the case of my thimbles, I started collecting over 50 years ago (yikes!) and many were given to me as gifts. A friend who went to Alaska was browsing in a shop and came across one made out of seal skin and promptly bought it for me. I think it's the most unusual one in my collection. They fill three cases that hold 100 each, plus I have a few random cases. It's fun to look at them and remember the people who gifted them to me, some of whom are no longer with us.
 
So interesting! My very first collecting item was ladies’ folding fans, started just after I was married, in 1966. They were all lovely, mostly antique, and really fun to look at. But I decided maybe I didn’t want the responsibility of being a curator of such fragile things. I sold them to a fan collectors’ club in another state, and started collecting glass and porcelain (china) ladies’ shoes and slippers!
 
Here are some of my collecting interests over the years (decades?): Ladies’ folding fans, glass and china ladies’ shoes, teddy bears, dolls, perfume bottles, China and pottery swan vases and figurines, shell cameo brooches, ladies’ compacts and vanity cases, rhinestone butterfly pins, and the latest - Japanese kokeshi dolls. Whew!! I am so old!
 
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This is only part of my curiosity collection. Thought a few of you would enjoy seeing it. Going in the window this weekend with a few new additions. I just can't resist oddities. One of my favorite stores was Obscura in New York City and I loved the TV show on the History channel.
 
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Here’s a picture of one of my collections, ladies’ powder compacts and vanity cases, circa 1930-1950. A compact just has powder in it, pressed or loose. A vanity case has something else added, like lipstick or rouge, the old-fashioned word for blush. All have a mirror, and a few are not glass, but super shiny silver metal.IMG_1254.jpeg
 
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