The Intersection of Design & Motherhood
Each day of this year, Lisa is posting a photo or drawing of a different collection. Stopping by has become a short, but always interesting part of my day.
I collect Caldecott books. What do you collect?
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We love coming up with fun valentines to make and give. Here are some of our favorites (many are candy free!):
3-D Lollipop Valentines - Easy! And a big hit. Try it with crazy straws or pencils too.
Fortune Teller Valentines - with free printable!
You Blow Me Away, Valentine! - Everyone loves party blowers. : )
Wild Animal Valentines - Family Fun Magazine requested my idea for their latest issue.
Mad Lib Valentines - Family Fun requested this idea too!
Friendship Bracelet Valentines
And here are a few more ideas I've featured over the years that I bet you'll love:
- Fresh Fruit Valentines
- Color Theory Valentines
- DIY Scratch Off Valentines
- Shaving Cream Valentines
- Mini Valentine Boxes
Here's something fun. Our family was featured in an episode of House Hunters International! Spoiler: we choose the gorgeous French Farmhouse. It's called La Cressonnière and we take pictures of it all the time. If you're curious, try these links:
The Kitchen
Summer at La Cressonnière
The Halfbath
The Stairwell
The Neighbors
Ralph's Bedroom
The Studio
Springtime at La Cressonnière
The Living Room
Maude's Bedroom
The Artists
Oscar & Betty's Bedroom
The Exterior
The Floors
Olive's Bedroom
The Treehouse
The House: La Cressonnière
I hope you enjoy the house tour! Oh. And if you'd like to see the episode, you can find it on Youtube here (it's in four parts).
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vintage pencils … vintage art supplies … scales … canning jars … books … pottery … vintage aprons …
too many things to count … i could probably do a collection a day for a year!
Vintage childrens' books, specifically Betsy Tacy (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Vintage childrens' books, specifically Betsy Tacy (Maud Hart Lovelace)
vintage globes!
old typewriters, red handled vintage kitchen utensils, reproduction fabric, vintage aprons, and friends!
I collect tea pots and cake plates!!
I collect tea pots and cake plates!!
Cookbooks….,vintage Robots…. and collectable Tea cups.
plants…paper birds…scraps of fabric
I collect pressed souvenir pennies. My husband gave me one on our first trip together and now I have about a hundred of them in a mason jar that sits on a ledge in our living room. It's a great conversation piece and reminds me of my travels. I love searching for those machines that create them when we visit someplace new and it feels like the biggest score when we finally find one.
My grandmother collected irons – I'm so glad that I have one of hers! I collect spinning tops.
I've started a collection of Newbery award-winning books for my oldest son, and a collection of the Caldecott winning books for my youngest. I've also started a collection of vintage globes for their bedroom. I collect cookbooks and we have so many golfballs in our home I think my husband must secretly be collecting them!
I collect old letterpress blocks, in initials and numbers that somehow relate to my life or loved ones. A photo of some here http://aspiringartistry.typepad.com/aspiring_artistry/2008/09/little-lovelies.html
THanks for sharing that link. I collect New Canadian Library paperbacks from the late 60s/early 70s. In fact, it got to be a bit of an obsession so I decided to start reading them and blog about it here: http://www.roughingitinthebooks.com It is a very niche blog – Can Lit isn't for everyone (although everyone – myself included – likes to make fun of it).
Business cards. And bells. Two very small items, so even if the collection gets huge, it's still easy to display. I keep my business cards in glass jars, vertically stacked and shown in the jar so you can see all the thin edges. And when someone asks me what souvenir they should get me from their travels, I tell them to get me a bell.
We have two collections as a family: one magnet from each of the states we've visited together, and books. We have over 2,000 books; browsing used bookstores is what we do together as a couple.
Glass shoes (these were passed down from my grandmother), the standard travel shot glass, I love collecting books too – old and new
I inherited a collections of gnomes by Thomas Clark. I collect older Golden Books that remind me of my childhood :)
Vintage children's books and owls!
I collect wind-up toys. My first toy – A wind up nose.
Jen Sedor
I collect magazine covers I want my daughter to be awed by when she’s my age (as in, “Oh heavens, they used to print this stuff on PAPER?!”
spoons, cobalt glass and rubber ducks!
I collect smashed souvenir pennies. I smashed my first one at the Royal Gorge when I was seven or eight and now have over 200 in my collection. They are a cheap souvenir when I travel and it's an adventure to find the machines.
thimbles & scrapbook supplies (I hardly ever scrapbook but I love the supplies – they're just too cute not to have)
Scrapbooking supplies, especially the beautiful paper, rings (I am so into rings right now), and children's books. I seriously could buy every book at Barnes & Noble much to my husband's dismay. Thankfully my kids love books.
Seaglass, and coins with the dates of my family's birth years.
L.M. Montgomery's works, even the very hard-to-find collections of short stories. Good, old-fashioned, sweet, funny stuff. Now if I could just go visit PEI.
I live small, so I try not to collect, but I do have a small collection of Prints of Sisters
I have added a few since this photo was taken, actually 2 photographs (not prints). But, it helps me to embrace and celebrate my family-2 girls! sisters!
These responses make me so happy! Cobalt glass. Vintage art supplies. Cake plates. Pressed pennies. Gnomes. Canadian Lit…
You're all so inspiring. We should start a flickr group with photos of our collections. Or a Mr. Linky. Or something.