Remember when you collected things as a kid? They weren’t spendy or big or terribly fancy, but they were things you loved that made you smile just to get the complete set. Â Stamp collections, shell collections, matchbook collections, Pez collections, marble collections. Oh, the list goes on and on.
I collected swizzle sticks when I was young and would get so excited when my parents brought me one back from their fancy dinners out. I still remember my favorite which was shaped like a sword fish.
As you know, we are big believers it is still cool to collect. Â And Lisa Congdon even wrote a book about it. Yup. How cool is that? Based on her popular blog, Collection a Day, Â Lisa spent a year documenting a unique collection every single day! Some were photographs some were drawings. Most of the collections were real and a handful were imagined. All were spectacular.
BTW, Lisa Congdon rocks. Just knowing that she lives in San Francisco makes me a bit giddy–that someone that awesome could be just a couple of miles from me. She makes me want to run out and buy old stuff that I like. Â OK, I already do that, but she makes me want to do it a lot more!
A Collection A Day is a gorgeous book. Â It reminds me so much of all of the great things that little kids love to collect and proudly show off.
What did you collect as a kid?
i collected pencils and fun shaped erasers. god forbid i ever actually sharpened one of the pencils and used it! that looks like a super fun book!
i also collected pencils and stickers; the scratch & sniffs were the best!
i love lisa congdon and can totally relate with her collecting obsession. every time i go to a thrift store i look for vintage children’s books, scandinavian ceramics, anything mid-century modern, and retro baby things. it’s kind of a bad habit!