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Coffee & Nib-bles / What do you collect?
« on: February 26, 2015, 12:08:21 PM »
If you have a collection of something, what is it? Both calligraphy and not calligraphy collections.
Calligraphy collection: I guess I sort of collect ink, but that's really unintentional. I think I just like to try new inks, and then they just accumulate.
Non-calligraphy collection: I've collected postcards since I was a kid. I pick up at least 1 postcard from everywhere I travel, and often I will send myself postcards that journal my vacation. For example, when I went to Turkey several years ago for a friend's wedding, I think I sent home (yes, to myself from me - I know it's a little strange...) 15-20 postcards. I would buy postcards from the places I visited that day, and in the evening, I would use the backs of them to write about my day and all of the stuff we did. Then I would have a journal of my vacation, as well as images from the things I saw, and the local postage which is always fun, the local postal cancellation and date. My friends and family bring or send them to me from their vacations. Sometimes they write on them and mail them. Sometimes they just bring me a blank one. I like hearing about the rest of the world, and I love getting postcards of the thing/monument/landscape/attraction/art/etc. that someone actually saw or visited, and I love when they write how they felt about it, or what that experience was like for them.
Calligraphy collection: I guess I sort of collect ink, but that's really unintentional. I think I just like to try new inks, and then they just accumulate.
Non-calligraphy collection: I've collected postcards since I was a kid. I pick up at least 1 postcard from everywhere I travel, and often I will send myself postcards that journal my vacation. For example, when I went to Turkey several years ago for a friend's wedding, I think I sent home (yes, to myself from me - I know it's a little strange...) 15-20 postcards. I would buy postcards from the places I visited that day, and in the evening, I would use the backs of them to write about my day and all of the stuff we did. Then I would have a journal of my vacation, as well as images from the things I saw, and the local postage which is always fun, the local postal cancellation and date. My friends and family bring or send them to me from their vacations. Sometimes they write on them and mail them. Sometimes they just bring me a blank one. I like hearing about the rest of the world, and I love getting postcards of the thing/monument/landscape/attraction/art/etc. that someone actually saw or visited, and I love when they write how they felt about it, or what that experience was like for them.