My Place & Yours... My Collection

I know that most of my posts these days are joining in with other people's memes but I'm having fun and it's keeping me blogging at this busy time of year. So this week I'm joining in with Pip's My Place & Yours and this week's theme, thanks to Kate from Fox's Lane, is My Collection.

I have to admit I hoard more than collect. I love collections and I watch Collectors every week! But I haven't really found my calling as a collector yet. When I was little, an aunt decided that I collected miniature shoes and a collection was quickly born, but I never felt very attached to them.

None of mine were as cool as these, from here

In my teens I collected vintage suitcases and had a lovely stack of them that conveniently stored many of my hoarded objects, but after many years and many moves they eventually felt too reminiscent of the student-days-share-house existence I had moved on from. I was ready to stop moving around (cases at the ready), put down roots, and set up some nice shelves for a change.

image from here

I still have a few of the old cases tucked away storing some treasures but they're no longer a collection.

Recently I've started collecting pictures from magazines to use for crafting with my kids.


I have huge stacks of magazines that have been passed on to me from my cousin. They hang around for ages in piles on the loungeroom floor and in bookshelves. And when they're several years old and not at the height of fashion any more I flick through and cut out cute pictures for future pasting sessions such as when we made these personalised lunch bags...

Note: Daddy added the iphone to his lunch bag - he wishes!

I'm looking forward to seeing all the collections popping up at Pip's place through the week.