:: my place & yours :: collections ::

kate from fox's lane chose a brilliant theme for this week with "collections".
as a family we have many and varied collections. way too many to assemble and photograph and post about. and besides, who wants to look at a photo of a pile of sticks, sorry mr 8.

and so after much deliberation, many hours of careful arranging and several more of mediocre photographing may i present to you our joint family collection.

this collection started many years ago with a few simpsons figures gathered by mr now 26. mr midge vigorously added to the stash claiming it was for the two youngest. he bought a special box for them to live in and fondly named it,"the homer box". he will proudly tell you the name, starring role and year of creation of each of these players.

they have all had adventures along the way. boo from monsters inc. who is as big as my little finger nail got lost in safeway and we spent hours with a screaming two year old searching the floor until she was safely returned to the sweaty palm of an over anxious toddler. i wonder where she gets it from? 
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Comments

[Kate]

I love the idea of a joint family collection! I love that you can admire them and play with them too. Oh what fun. Thanks heaps for playing.

[beck]

Yep, I'm all for the family collection too. What better way to bond than a shared hobby? What happens though when all are grown up? Does the collection stay with mum & dad or get split up? Now that would be sad...xo

[Marian Edwards]

WOW that's very IMPRESSIVE!!

[Redness]

Oh fabulous, love the team effort! I only skimmed the surface of my collections ... isn't this fun :)

[Lola Nova]

I love superman's pose! What a fun and colorful collection. We have a stick collection too, and rocks and leaves and any windfall my 4 year old finds appealing. She says to me, "Here, hold this, it's for my collection."
Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving such a sweet comment. Have a great weekend!

[Jackie]

A family collection is wonderful. Great idea!

[Nikki]

That is a very cool collection Michelle... especially cool that it is a family collection. And the lost Boo would have been terrible.. for lots of reasons. Thank goodness she was found... for lots of reasons!!

[pip :: meetmeatmikes]

Aw that's so cute! A family collection! I want a famly collection too! I think that is a great idea. I want a Homer box! So glad you showed us, because this is such a fun thing to do together! x

[Kellie]

what a great collection! (i love the cat in the hat in the middle there!)
but also ~ the feed is working again! Hurrah!

[Tanya Holt]

I agree about the family collection, that's really nice. I think you need some smurfs, they would fit right it. I wondered if that was the cat in the hat. What a very cool collection

[Del]

Look at Margs' hairdo towering above the rest - gotta love it.

[quilary]

Looking at your collection, I've just remembered an iecream container full of plastic toys, from cereal packets, that I have stashed away somewhere. I think they'll want to come out of hiding now.

[elaine]

i collect those toys too...well there my childrens toys that i couldn't bear to throw out when they got too old for them....i make family and self portraits out of them .when i saw you picture on pips round up of the collection theme i thought my toys had upped and moved to australia. i have to come back here for a better luck