Collector's Edition

Round glass paperweights are my thing!  Ever since I went to an open house a few years ago and saw a beautiful collection of them in an illuminated cabinet, I have loved them!  While antiquing with my dear friend in a nearby quaint little town, I told her about the collection I saw and that I was considering starting a similar collection of paperweights myself. Just then, she held her hand out to show something to me and said "you mean like this?"  It was perfect, the glass was vaguely irredescent and inside was a swirled green substance I cannot identify.  That became the first paperweight in my collection.  Now I have about 2 dozen paperweights of different sizes, colors, and styles.  I have recently spotted an illuminated hand crafted curio cabinet that will be the perfect backdrop to display my collection. 

I also collect those crazy little gangly toys that one holds in their hand and pushes up the bottom so the strings in the arms, legs, head, and tail etc., loosen, causing the puppet type figure to lean and move. 

Lastly, I collect teapots.  However they seem to multiply like rabbits and I've had to put the brakes on that collection.  I tend to keep a little more than a dozen of them and sometimes give them away or leave them at the homes of people I visit.  If I had more room I might expand my collection of teapots and also my collection of vases.  At present, space constraints are an external discipline enhancer, and I only buy new ones when they are simply irresistable.  Eventually I hope to start a teapot club for sheer pleasure.  Also, I'd like to trade upward with my vases and refine my collection as I learn more about different types of collectible pottery.  

That's my collection story.  I am looking forward to reading some of yours!  Felitzi