Collecting Life

I collect, from nature:

• rocks
  minerals
  shells
  driftwood (small pieces)
  sea glass
  acorns (btw, they have worms)
  pine cones
  leaves (but not many)
  laurel seeds (red with a black spot)
  dried beans

Beads, Baubles and Buttons

A girl's best friends.

• Beads made of:
  glass
  plastic
  wood
  shell
  twigs
  clay
  polymer clay
  brass
  steel
  silver (a few)
  gold (as gifts)
  nickle
  stainless steel
  
  Ditto for baubles.
  
  buttons
  fringe
  tassels
  a little lace
  ribbon
  scarves
  sarongs
  material

Paper

Just because it is so neat, saved unfolded, unspindles, unmutilated (if possible).

• Origami paper
  Washi paper
  scrapbooking paper
  mylar tissue paper
  patterned tissue paper
  wrapping paper
  note pads with interesting designs
  sticky notes with patterns or funny sayings

Things Made From Paper

Paper items are usually inexpensive and usually take little room to store. However, watch out for the weight when they get tgether in numbers.

• postcards, places I have been, places I have not been yet, and places where I do not intend to go.
  stamps, by topic
  tatting books
  cross-stitch patterns
  beading patterns
  quilling patterns
  quilt block patterns
  paper snowflake patterns
  books of fairy tales and folk tales
  art books
  books about museum collections
  mystery books
  history books
  literature
  bookmarks
  honeycomb decorations
  scrap-booking supplies and idea books
  stickers
  mobiles
  family memories and papers
  cookbooks, even though cooking is not my thing
  comics, both in books and separates
  greeting cards, used and unused
  business cards
  computer cards (remember those?)
  note cards
  notebooks, like neat three rings or others with interesting outsides
  note pads with nice designs
  pocket portfolios with cartoon characters
  boxes, nested and unnested
  Chinese lucky money envelopes
  cardboard coasters like you get a certain chain restaurants and most pubs
  paper coasters like those from hotels and cruise ships

Animal Figures

• Fish:
  glass fish
  pottery fish
  china fish
  resin fish
  beaded fish
  fish beads
  porcelain fish
  paper fish
  metal fish
  wooden fish
  shell fish
  
  Cats:
  stone cats
  wood cats
  glass cats
  
  Birds:
  shell birds
  glass birds
  china birds
  reconstituted marble birds
  wood birds
  gourd birds
  stone birds
  
  (Fish, cats and birds, the eternal triangle of love and hate, desire and dinner.)
  
  Other animals, horses, moose, anteaters, alligators and the occasional bat or chicken:
  animals of porcelain
  animals of glass
  animals of china
  animals of terra cotta
  animals of wood
  animals of stone
  animal of ivory (many years ago)
  beaded animals

Art

Works in many media, and several styles. Some are originals, but most are reproductions.

• screenprints (also called serigraphs)
  oil paintings
  watercolors
  etchings
  drawings
  collage
  photographs
  ACEOs
  pictures made from indigenous materials
  
  in styles of:
  representational
  abstract
  abstract representational
  impressionistic
  ancient/aboriginal/primitive

More Strangely

From today's society, to amaze the future.

• Product packaging, like cereal boxes and facial tissue boxes and other things with either games or "decorator" aspirations.
  
  Fortune cookie fortunes, those words of wisdom (and lottery numbers).
  
  Catalogs, in whole where there are so many things of interest that cutting out the good ones would result in keeping almost all of the catalog anyway.
  
  Catalog clippings of interesting products or services, objects showing good design or really bad design.
  
  Magazine ads that show good design or make an interesting point.