Time to come out of the closet!!!

[KICKSTART]

Ok so what do you collect? Its time to admit im a big Dr Who fan ! I have several things , a cyberman head..a remote control dalek, a K9 and a five foot inflatable dalek 
So come on ..whats your collection ? tell all!!!
Oh and David Tennant doesnt know it yet , but i intend too make him Mr Kickstart  He is just gorgeous !

[AlohaBeth]

I have a pretty big theatre collection, signed playbills, signed broadway posters, shirts, handouts, anything you can imagine...  Most of it is from shows I have seen personally and went backstage after and a few are from friends who saw different things and brought signed things back for me...  but I have some amazing autographs and photos with me and people like Anthony Rapp, Daphne Ruben Vega, Lou Diamond Phillips, Josie Lawrence, Debbie Gibson, Tom Bosley, Mariette Hartley, Keo Woofard, Jonathan Pryce, Mel B and a million others - but my prized theatre autographs and pictures are from Kristen Chenowith, Tony Curtis, Tommy Tune and Bernadette Peters...  Yep yep.  I am out.  I am a theatre nerd.

[willieandwinnie]

Oh Lord, KICKSTART, you opened a can of worms  I have collected Precious Moments for 30 years. 4 curio cabinets chocked full. I have been cross stitching for 25 years, and have no walls left to put anything, I also build dollhouses, so they are all over the house, I quilt, so of course they are also everywhere. My poor hubby won't dust because of all the crap as he calls it. I won't tell him about this discussion. 

[Meinuk]

I collect NxStage supplies.  Boxes and boxes of supplies.....   

All kidding aside, once upon a time (before I moved to Europe) I owned hundreds of pairs of shoes, closets full of clothing and my CD collection was well, embarrassing.  But since I made the big "purge" when I put everything into storage and traveled, my habits changed.  My music is digital.  My shoe collection is in the double digits, and my closets are filled with Nxstage supplies.  So, I guess now you could say that I collect memories.

[KICKSTART]

Oh Lord, KICKSTART, you opened a can of worms  I have collected Precious Moments for 30 years. 4 curio cabinets chocked full. I have been cross stitching for 25 years, and have no walls left to put anything, I also build dollhouses, so they are all over the house, I quilt, so of course they are also everywhere. My poor hubby won't dust because of all the crap as he calls it. I won't tell him about this discussion. 

Dollhouses? oh please please post some piccies  I just love dolls houses! I bought my mum her first dolls house at christmas because she has wanted one for so long , over here they are are luxury item due to the cost of everything! Iwould collect them myself if they wasnt so expensive to buy and furnish!!!

[Romona]

I have an extensive dust collection. 

I love vintage jewerly. Old bracelets and rings are my favorite. I don't have many pieces and they are not worth much, but are special to me. The Victorian Era and Filagree I love.

[KT0930]

Thanks to my son, we collect games for various Nintendo game systems.

Seriously though, I seem to collect yarn and patterns for crochet projects that I'll do "someday" or I start and find too frustrating, so I give up. Due to having so much free time since the transplant, I've managed to finish two projects and start one or two others. Probably won't finish either of those before going back to work, though. I also am getting quite a collection of books that I've finished reading. I've got to check with the local used bookstore and see if they have a "trade-in" type of offer.

[willieandwinnie]

Here is my Christmas House, my son's harley shop, and holloween house. I have a beautiful lighthouse but I need to take pictures and I'm working a an old victorian.

[petey]

willieandwinnie, those are beautiful doll houses!  I admire your talent.  Marvin and I made one doll house years ago (about 15) when his niece started teaching kindergarten.  We made it for her classroom and one of the "stations" she set up in her room.  Marvin built it and painted it.  We bought some of the furniture for it, and Marvin made some of the simpler furniture items.  I was in charge of bedspreads, table cloths, curtains, rugs, wallpaper, and "accessories."  That just about drove us crazy!  Oh, my, you have to really pay attention to detail with those doll houses!  It was really nice (I thought), but it took a lot of time.  It was about three feet tall.  We swore after that one that we'd never tackle another one -- and we never did.

Marvin has built quite a few baby cradles (for real babies -- nieces and nephews and then great-nieces and nephews).  They rock and are simply beautiful.  I make the "bedding" to go in them.  We haven't made one in about 3 or 4 years (no new great-nieces and nephews lately).  I also cross stitch and crochet afghans every time I get the chance.

I collect anything "Wizard of Oz," lots of tea pots and "old" china, and books (it's the English teacher in me).

[Joe Paul]

Thats a nice collection WW  

[jbeany]

Ummm - I had to quit collecting things - no room left.  I purged oodles of things with the last move.  I still have remnants of a mouse collection that I started in elementary school, a collection of teddy bears that I started in high school, and an antique wooden box collection I started in college.  The mice and bears now occupy only about a shelf each, and the boxes are scattered all over the house holding all sorts of useful things.  Now, I mostly collect fabric for quilting - but at least the finished quilts get sold or given away!

[KICKSTART]

W&W thanks for the piccies , what great houses! The one i got my mum is a 'rose cottage' typical english sort of thing with lots of 'olde worlde' furniture. You are making me want to start on building one now , at least it would pass a few hours in the evening for me!

[kitkatz]

I have remnants of the huge dog statue collection I had. I was up over 1000 pieces and into the cartoon dogs and Disney dogs.  It got to expensive for me when to buy a piece was over 100 dollars. So I auctioned it off one year and let most of it go. I have around 10 pieces now and I still look. But no buying now.  I have a small lighthouse collection. I started out with Thomas Kinkade lighthouse.  I do not want to collect lighthouses, but people seem to think I do. So I have a couple of them now.  I love boxes and have started a small collection of unusual boxes.  They are taking up space now.  I need another room for my stuff. I also have books.

I will put my dust collection up against anyone else's here!

[Jill D.]

I love the dollhouses! Your Halloween house looks just like the inside of my house for Halloween.  

Romona - thank you so much for sharing one of your vintage bracelets with me for my Secret Santa gift. I love, love it!!! I have a dust collection with a bit of pet hair collection thrown in (we have hardwood floors throughout the house - don't look at the corners of the floors!!!!)

[willieandwinnie]

Thanks for the complements everyone. KICKSTART, I spend a couple of hours a week. I like to look at things in magazines and think how I can shrink them down. I use allot of fabric for wall paper, the scale seems to work great. Len is my electrician, so he wires them for me. I love to turn on the lights when it's dark, they look so real. The Christmas tree was a fiber optic one we found somewhere and Len wired it into the dollhouse. I did take picture of the lighthouse that I made for Len and will post them when I get them on my computer. I also made Len's trauma surgeon (he saved his life and we saw him weekly for 4 1/2 years and he will call me back even now) a room box divided into 2 rooms, one his office and the other his examine room. I even made an xray machine that lit up and reduced on of Len's xrays to hang up. If I can find the pictures, I'll post them. He was so damn proud of that thing. Made me feel good. Have a nice evening everyone.

[petey]

w&w -- you are too creative!  I never would have thought of making an x-ray machine that actually lights up -- and with an x-ray.  That had to be too cool!  As Marvin would say, "You are smarter than the average bear!"  (I'm not sure what that means, but I know it's a complement.)

[willieandwinnie]

Here you go petey, show Marvin these. Really and truly the xray machine lit up. It was pretty cool.

[willieandwinnie]

I found it. Here is the xray machine lit up.

[kidney4traci]

Wow, that takes a great deal of time!  The attention to detail is amazing!

[AlohaBeth]

how ADORABLE is that -- I was just telling mom that I would love when I have children to make them each a doll house, I could only hope they are have as great as yours -- beautiful work.

[petey]

w&w -- that"s very, very, very impressive !!  You are quite talented!  I'm jealous!

[Grey Ghost]

Are't you a limey.  Yall don't have many Harley davidsons over there.  That's what I try to collect

[paris]

Click on the members list to see where a member is located.  Some might be offended by the term "limey".  Just my

[Grey Ghost]

I did check out his profile , you were right he is a brit.  but I already knew that cause he emailed me once with a union jack flag.  I am usually offensive and a nastyold fart.  I am in pain and dieing and stuff but I wasn't trying to be offensive with the limey slur.  Does that term offend the Brits.?

[paris]

Sorry, I thought you were referring to WillieandWinnie's Harley Davidson shop she posted a picture of and she isn't from England.  Not sure who you were referring to.