Collections

[The Wall]

And I don't mean the people who come around when you don't pay your bills. Today, I found in a bargain bin a long sought out piece of my cookbook collection. I never thought I had a collection; in fact, today is the first day I've acknowledged that I do. It's really small, but I guess it's just starting.

I found, for nearly half price, The Star Wars Cookbook: Wookie Cookies and Other Galactic Recipes today on a fluke. I'd seen them on an online list of another woman's cookbook collection a while back and had been keeping a sharp eye out. One excuse or another always kept me from having a bookstore order the three book set. (The one I found today, plus The Star Wars Cookbook II: Darth Malt and More Galactic Recipes, and The Star Wars Party Book: Recipes and Ideas for Galactic Occasions) When I was chattering to my roomie once I brought home book one of the series, her friend was looking at me rather strangely. Maybe it was because I was out loud debating with myself whether I should make Boba Fett-uccine or Tusken Raider Taters first... Erica said, "Oh, she collects cookbooks." I started t

o argue, because I really don't have enough that I thought of it as a collection, but realized that it was indeed a budding one.

Everyone I know has a collection of something. With my roommate, it's shoes and menorahs, with my sister it's coins. My brother collects used iPods and punching bags, both of which I count as collections because he has a ton and never uses them.

What do you guys collect?

My current collection:

-The Star Wars Cookbook: Wookie Cookies and Other Galactic Recipes by Robin Davis

-Cooking For Kids Bible: Your All-in-One Guide to Cooking for Your Kids (no author listed)

-The Caribbean, Central and South American Cookbook by Jenni Fleetwood and Marina Filippelli

-Chocolate Treats by Parragon Publishing
-The New Cook by Pamela Gwyther
-The Great American Cookbook by Parragon Publishing (The two PPublishing books and The New Cook are all little tiny books I got for a dollar each. In a bargain bin.)

-Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Dr. Seuss by Georgeanne Brennan (I love this book!!!)

-Disney's The Magic Kitchen Cookbook (The first cookbook I bought, when I first became a private nanny and was looking for a good kid's cookbook to help a very fussy three year old who didn't eat much.)

I also have my own cookbook, where I store recipe cards written by myself and other people, recipe clippings from magazines, etc. I don't think that counts as part of the collection, tho. e.e

Pieces actively being sought for the collection:

-The other two Star Wars cookbooks, mentioned above.
-A Kitchen Witch's Cookbook by Patricia Telesco
-Celtic Folklore Cooking by Joanne Asala
-The Irish Pub Cookbook by Margaret Johnson
-Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Cookbook by Ruby Ann Boxcar (I've totally been wisting after this ever since seeing it in Borders. I love cookbooks that don't take themselves seriously.)
-Nanny Ogg's Cookbook by G. Ogg and Terry Pratchett - If I get my grubby hands on this one, I can die happy. Srsly.

[RumpleGrumblePuss]

I collect Fountain pens, penguins, and antique ladies hats.

Current collection:
(Stuffed Penguins)

Pengy - My first Penguin, given to me by my husband.
Fluff-n-Stuffers - a cute little Christmas penguin that is lost in a box back in Oklahoma
Chewy - A HUGE penguin my mom bought me shortly before I moved. He was my favorite pillow.
Sigmund- Can't remember where I got the cute little guy, but he sat on my desk by the computer.

Fountain Pens - I have about a dozen of them, most decorative and in a box back home. Some were quite expensive and are collectibles.

Antique hats - (I don't really actively hunt for them anymore.) I don't remember any more how many I have. Prolly a couple dozen. Anywho, they are kept locked away in an air-tight container at my mother's house.

[Calx Vir]

Swords and other cool weapons of the like are my game. Hmm, let me list...

- A set of 3 katanas with similar blue sheaths, stainless steel, for show mostly.
- A tempered steel katana that's practically battle-ready, but more for show also, with a fairly reinforced black sheath
- A one-handed, double-headed battle axe (woot!)
- A fairly expensive dagger, the handle featuring a dragon motif with a fang for the wrist guard, the blade serrated near the cross-guard
- A cheap dagger I got at a flea market, sort of a long serrated blade with a crocodile on it
- Another fairly cheap dagger with an angel motif. short bladed
- A reverse-blade katana, the blade extends opposite the hilt rather than with it, kind of like an S shape, not battle-ready but not just for show either, has an orange-ish sheath.
- Several throwing knives

- And possibly one of my coolest things, a mini, letter-opener replica of Cloud Strife's Buster Sword from Advent Children, which just exudes sweetness.

I only gave blunt generalizations of the items, but you catch my drift.

[Xos]

- And possibly one of my coolest things, a mini, letter-opener replica of Cloud Strife's Buster Sword from Advent Children, which just exudes sweetness.

I saw an exact replica of Sephiroth's sword once.

[Breaker]

Does the Star Wards cookbook teach you how to make blue milk?

[Nautilus]

Wookie cookies! Those sound oddly delicious.

I seem to be collecting random knick-knacks that are never more than around an inch in height. People just give them to me. -.- I also have a nice fossil collection.

Some of my knick-knacks:
- An orange cat statue.
- A couple religious figures in varying mediums (i.e. a polished wooden pocket Buddha, a more traditional "skinny" metal Buddha, a bronze-y Ganesha, Guan Yin, and so on)
- A plastic 3D star that glows in the dark.
- A blue baoding ball with yin-yangs on it
- A rearing metal dragon
- These interesting magnets that you throw at each other in mid-air and listen to them ziippppp
- An obisidian cougar and coyote that my father sent me (these have a proper New Mexican name which I can't remember at the moment)
- Other misc items that are in another room and therefore unworthy of my getting up to see and remember what they are

Fossils:
Some squid, a few trilobites, some shells, petrified wood, a fish and a nautiloid (well technically it's an Ammonite)

[The Wall]

Does the Star Wards cookbook teach you how to make blue milk?

No, but there is a recipe for Hoth Chocolate. XD

[Breaker]

"They should call it 'Colth'!" Chocolate.

[Shadar]

I love me some good 'ol Japanese merchandise.

Gundams, the assembly required but already painted kind:
- Justice (Gundam Seed)
- Freedom (Gundam Seed)
- Destiny AKA "Your face asplode!" (Gundam Seed: Destiny)

Japanese RPG action figures:

- Cloud, Tifa, Vincent, Sephiroth (FF7: Advent Children)
- Sora, Kairi (Kingdom Hearts 2)
- Squall (FF8)
- Auron (FFX)

Weapons, props and real:
- Serpent head sword cane
- Bleach sword replica in prop foam
- a pair of sai
- a couple of spiffy daggers, some more practical than others
- katana with busted sheath
- bayonet blade
- and other random sharp things that are hard to describe

Nutcrackers:
- 2 big ones, about 8 inches
- about 10 smaller ones
There will be more in the future. Much more. I will raise an army to make all nuts suffer!

And coming soon!

Every piece of Spongebob Squarepants marketing shit I can find, from soup to bandaids. It's for a project, not for love of the sponge. The theme song is catchy, though.

[Karuka]

Bossk Brownies are made of win and awesome, but I'm not a fan of the Darth Maul Devil Dogs. Then again, I hate hot dogs with a firey passion.

My family collects oddball stuff. While sitting in my living room, I can count 8 weapons, 2 brass lamps, two carosels, an angel, some LOTR stuff, two eagles, a picuter of an eagle, some of mom's old air force stuff, a brass globe, an old-fashioned map (here there be monsters), a brass horse from Saudi, a marble chess set hand carved from a pacific island, two hand-carved family heirlooms, fancy hair claws, Spanish fans, a couple whatchamacall'ems that are new, two antique chairs that belonged to my great-grandmother (my dad proposed to my mom on the couch I'm sitting on right now), a brass cangle holder, and other various oddball stuff. Including a mini pilantir.

And that's just the living room.