My answers to that Quiz on my last post.
Righto, here we go.
1. Do I collect anything? Well, is the Pope a Catholic? In other words, yes - I do collect stuff. Lots of it. Too much in fact.
2. What do I collect?
Swapcards, stamps, books, hand embroidered linen, husbands (:-o)
3. How many do I have?
I started collecting swapcards when I was about 5 years old, along with all the other small people at school back then. I still have them and I am still adding to the collection, and at last count, I think I had a couple of thousand.
I also started collecting stamps when I was a child, encouraged by my father, who gave me his collection. I don't actively save them now as much as I used to, except for Australian stamps, of which I buy every new issue as it comes out. I never thought to count them, but I have about 20 albums.
Books...Ken always says if I stopped buying books, I could stop buying bookshelves. If only it was that easy! Again, never counted them, but would number in the thousands. Lots of cook books and embroidery/cross stitch books among them.
Linen. Now you're talking! I am planning to do a complete catalogue of my collection one day, and I even have a specialist program on the computer to do it, but it is going to take YEARS...This is an estimate:
Tablecloths - 160
Tea Cosies - 50
Aprons - 80
Tray cloths - 40
Pillow Shams - 30
Doilies of various shapes and sizes - several hundred
Duchess Sets (Dresser sets in America, I think) - several hundred.
And many, many other items that don't fall under those categories.
Husbands.. well that was said tongue in cheek -there has only been two! But I love men, and love being married. If it doesn't work out, try try again, in my book!
1. Do I collect anything? Well, is the Pope a Catholic? In other words, yes - I do collect stuff. Lots of it. Too much in fact.
2. What do I collect?
Swapcards, stamps, books, hand embroidered linen, husbands (:-o)
3. How many do I have?
I started collecting swapcards when I was about 5 years old, along with all the other small people at school back then. I still have them and I am still adding to the collection, and at last count, I think I had a couple of thousand.
I also started collecting stamps when I was a child, encouraged by my father, who gave me his collection. I don't actively save them now as much as I used to, except for Australian stamps, of which I buy every new issue as it comes out. I never thought to count them, but I have about 20 albums.
Books...Ken always says if I stopped buying books, I could stop buying bookshelves. If only it was that easy! Again, never counted them, but would number in the thousands. Lots of cook books and embroidery/cross stitch books among them.
Linen. Now you're talking! I am planning to do a complete catalogue of my collection one day, and I even have a specialist program on the computer to do it, but it is going to take YEARS...This is an estimate:
Tablecloths - 160
Tea Cosies - 50
Aprons - 80
Tray cloths - 40
Pillow Shams - 30
Doilies of various shapes and sizes - several hundred
Duchess Sets (Dresser sets in America, I think) - several hundred.
And many, many other items that don't fall under those categories.
Husbands.. well that was said tongue in cheek -there has only been two! But I love men, and love being married. If it doesn't work out, try try again, in my book!
posted by Gina E. | 5:18 pm
2 Comments:
Hi Gina,
You know I really need to think about the answers. lol However, I love the last one. If it's ok with you, I'd like to post your questions on my blog. :-) I'll try posting answers sometime this week.
Now it's back to the hot yard and working on that ^&* fence. ;-) Actually, I can hardly wait, then the dogs will have two places to run and my neighbor things it will get rid of the ground chucks making lots of nasty holes. Have a great day.
patty
Wow, what an impressive collection you have. I'm glad for you, I've surely enjoyed seeing the lovely vintage things you post pics of Gina.
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