April 16th, 2010

If you are like me at all, and I know you are, you collect things. Lots of things. For me, that’s often where it ends, and the things pile up, get in the way, and cause family strife. I often think, “oh I should do something with that”, like the collection of rhinestone xmas tree pins I had intended to weld into a wreath, but never did. Or the vintage playmobil cars “I bought for my son” and was going to display on shelves, but never did. Or the handmade dolls, the illustrated copies of Alice in Wonderland, the vintage crown canning jars from Canada, or the owls-all those owls. Seriously, I have a lot of stuff.

Well, I would like to you to meet Molly.

Molly collects things, awesome things, sparkly shiny things that make me want to collect more sparkly shiny things myself. But better yet, she displays them! Behold her glitter collection.

Molly reminds me that collections, when displayed lovingly, can be a work of art in their own right. That a pile of junk, when organized and treated with respect, can become a reflection of the collector and a celebration of the little things that make us happy. Molly’s collection makes me happy. So I am going to organize, starting with my dolls, and I will show you what I’ve done. Hopefully, it will make you happy too, and make you look a little differently at your collection of, say, dryer lint?

Angharad

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