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.

[Lakin_of_DpN]

Great I know who to ask when I need a recipe.

My mum started buying them for me and I sorta keep it going. I collect Care Bears. Just lately LOTR chess pieces.

http://us.share.geocities.com/mystic_of_dpn/favbears.JPG

-Tries again- Hopefully the link works. Here are some fav's.

Edit: I don't know why but that link won't work either, if you type mystic_of_dpn into the explorer bar by hand, it works I think. Its not that exciting so I doubt anyone will goto that much trouble. But I thought I would say anyway.

[AdventWings]

Well, here's something you would expect from a Japanophile like me. :p

Manga Collection:

- Eko to Issho! vol. 1-4 (That's the entire run)
- Ghost in the Shell vol. 1-2
- Negima!: Magister Negi Magi vol. 1,2,10, 18-20 (Skipp'd a lot, since I got started with vol. 18)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Himatsubushi-hen and the first half of Yoigoshi-hen.
- Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu vol. 1 (couldn't find the rest at the local bookstore)
- Front Sight of Alice vol. 1-3
- How to Draw Manga vol. 2, 18, 23, 25, 39
- Rurouni Kenshin vol. 4
- Samurai Deeper Kyo vol. 20 + another I can't remember
- ...And some not worth mentioning. :p

Figure Collection:

- 6" Hi-Grade Evangelion Unit 002 (official model - currently out of production)
-... Had a Cloud Strife with First Tsurugi action figure (FFXII - Advent Children) but gave it to my upperclassman as his graduation present.

EDIT: Whoops! Forgot one more list!

Light Novel Collection:

- Shakugan no Shana vol. 1-4 (Thai) + vol. 1-3 (Japanese)
- Shinigami no Ballad vol. 1-4

Seriously, though, I never thought I have this many books. :p

[Slayer of the Rot]

I collect pornography and a building cancer in my lungs.

[Xos]

I collect books on magic and demonology and other associated subjects. I have the following books:

The three books of Abramelin, Occult Philosophy, Geomancy, Arbatel of Magick, Azthoth, Black Pullet, book of Soyga, book of the seniors, book of black serpant, book of power, Conjuratio Daemonium, Devil Worship, Dogma Et Rituel de Haute Magie, Black Raven, Grand Grimoire, Grimoire Honorius, Grimoirium Imperium, Grimoirium Verum, Apocrypha, Egyptian book of the dead, Kadath, Le Grant albert des secretz des vertus des Albert le Grand (1200-1280), Lemegeton, Key to the Mysteries, Transcendental Magic, Libellus Magicus, Liber Armadel, Liber Logaeth, Mysteriorum Liber Primus, Mysteriorum Liber Secundus, Mysteriorum Liber Tertius, Necronomicon, Nyarlathotep, Heptameron, Praxis Magica, Secret Grimoire of Turiel, Seventh book of Moses, Sixth book of Moses, Sword of Moses, The Call of Cthulhu, The case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Greater Key of Solomon, The Hieroglyphic Monad, Through the Gates of the Silver Key, Trithemius_Art_Of_Drawing_Spirits_Into_Crystals, and The Book of Ceremonial Magic.

[The Wall]

Trithemius_Art_Of_Drawing_Spirits_Into_Crystals

A book title or yahoo user name?

[Destrudo]

A book, you wanna copy I'll E-mail it to you. It's in PDF format, they all are.

[Winterhair]

Bodies, women, booze, sex, and and pure laziness.

In essence, thoughts.
That's what I collect. xD

[Saxon]

Comic books and books.

Mike Mignola (Hellboy) for comics and any book that catches my eye.