Does anyone out there remember the passion people had in acquiring collectible decorative plates back in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s? Names like The Bradford Exchange, The Franklin Mint and Royal Doulton were pumping out limited edition decorative plates destined for the dining room hutch and our parents’ ‘do not touch anything on there’ […]
Continue ReadingHitting the road soon? Or, perhaps you’re just a lover of tiny, wonderful things? Get inspired by Silvia Chenault’s super-charming accidental altered mint tins collection!
Continue ReadingWhile not a collector of measure, I deeply enjoy seeing like objects grouped together. (Don’t you? It’s like a brain massage!) In any case, I was just turned on to San Francisco illustrator and Rare Device boutique/gallery owner Lisa Congdon‘s Collection A Day blog. Here we get to see a photograph or drawing posted each […]
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Remember the eraser collection? Well, Bob Truby has a wonderfully organized site for his pencil collection. They’re beautiful. via Meggiecat
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MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder has a piece on Dinosaurs and Robots about sea glass hunting, inspired by Kevin Kelly’s piece we blogged about last week. We had a wonderful time searching for the sea glass. Sea glass is rare enough to make you excited when you find a piece, but not so rare as to […]
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Packing up for the beach today (yay!), I saw this link on Dinosaurs and Robots to Kevin Kelly’s blog, to a piece about sea glass (which we used to call “beach glass”). Kevin writes: A name yields knowledge. When I got home looked up sea glass. Aha! There are books. There are collectors. There’s a […]
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One of my favorite things about the Internet is discovering people’s collections of things. This time it was erasers. ErasersWorld is a chatty and thorough look at the author’s collection; Joy of Erasers has more of a blog-type tone, including coverages of other people’s erasers and industry news. I also found this BNET article on […]
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