Show us your life: Collections

Over at Kelly's Korner blog it's Show Us Your Life Friday. She has some neat topics lined up and if I can remember, I'd like to participate. This Friday is: Show us your collections. Coming from a long line of artistic, creative-minded individuals it was inevitable that I turn out to be a pack-rack - for some reason those two qualities usually go hand in hand: artistic & a pack-rack. You see the reason is because artistic people always like to be surrounded by things that inspire them, things that provide motivation. Another very likely reason is the fact that creative people usually hold on to things in hopes of being able to eventually use them for a project. :) I do this a lot!

So all of that is to say, I am a pack-rat, a collector - I hold on to sentimental things passed down from family members. Since moving to our new home last Spring, I have made a new rule, only keep things that I truly LOVE. Don't keep or collect it JUST to collect it. After, narrowing down the many boxes I have purged through random things that I kept for no good reason. The things that I kept are things that I truly love and will cherish for years to come.

Among the many things I kept were things handed down from my grandparents. Some of the things I found in my grandparents things were things that started me collecting more of them. For instance, antique cameras. My granddad had a cool old Canon. I had no idea he even liked to take pictures. He passed away last January and it's neat that I still have his Canon to hold on to. This is also why I will always be a Canon girl. (Sorry, Nikon users.) ;)

One of my favorite things to do is go to estate sales and pick up a vintage camera or two. I love to imagine who's camera it was and all of the lovely photographs that were taken with it. Oh, if cameras could talk...

Head on over to Kelly's Korner for more great collections...