A few of my favorite things…
This entry was posted on 12/21/2007 12:13 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
According to my calendar, winter begins tomorrow. Of course, this is the same calendar that lied to me about daylight savings time, but anyway…
What does winter mean to you? Ice, snow, fireplaces—obviously, being cold is not one of my favorite things, but icicles hanging from the eaves outside my living room window are a good thing. A handmade scarf from a friend…steaming cocoa in my cat cup…fuzzy socks…the smell of evergreen and cinnamon—those things are winter.
Certain things at certain times of the year make me wish I was a talented photographer—daffodils blooming in the spring, the changing colors in the fall, but it's the starkness of a leafless tree in winter that really gets my attention. I'd love to save those images forever with the perfect lights, colors, and shadows—make them my own to study over and over again. Collect them?
Collect them…huh? I have found myself to be a collector of things. (The love-of-my-life defines this syndrome fairly accurately as—I'm a packrat.) I'm sort of a freak for old stuff, the vintage stuff—canning jars filled with buttons, funny black and white photos of maybe relatives that I never knew, small curiosities perched on shelves or in type trays or shadow boxes. ATC cards in albums and frames. And books, books, and more books. I'm a reader with books everywhere, and I can't seem to part with them once I've read them.
Are you a collector? How do you display your treasures? A lady on the Antiques Roadshow showed off her huge collection of vintage brooches on a dressmaker's dummy outfitted in black velvet. She planned to turn it into a lamp. I could see that in my living room, but with green velvet. Another project looms on the horizon…
