Collecting......

In the last post I showed the tin I bought and mentioned "collections". Tins are everywhere in my home and i'll show you some...

Most of them contain what it says on the outside: coffee, tea, chocolate milkpowder, cookies...and lots of different sweet sprinkles we Dutch like to put on our sandwiches..


Sewingroom (small) tins...


.....and the crackers are in a crackertin, soap for the dishwasher in a dishwashertin etc. I just don't like cardboard boxes!
Another (strange to some) collection are my unsharpened pencils. It started with just fun pencils I found here and there. Now I buy a pencil when on holiday. E.g on from the Tower of London when I was there, or one with "carpe diem"from Rome.
I also buy keychains from things/places I visited and use them as such or attach them on one of my (handbags) It's fun to see a red English telephonebox dangling again,when I use a totebag I haven't used for a while. Brings back memories from that fun holiday!

Last but not least my increasing collection of pincushions!


And don't we all collect fabrics????
Speaking of those: I got 6 emails and 2 comments about the Dutch fabrics and all 8 of you would want to swap some. Well, hope you understand that swapping with 8 people is a bit too much. I can't pick 1 or 2 and ignore others, so the best I can do is give a link where those fabrics can be bought (it's in English or English can be chosen). I myself am a member of their Dutch fq fabric club. Check this site http://www.minewood.nl/en-uk/