Collections Of Our blogs: A Reflection On Our Collected Thoughts
12.21.07By The DeanWe collected some great items this year, filling voids in glass fronted display cabinets, shelving and most horizontal spaces left open in our home. On the way we also collected items to sell in Wifie’s antique mall booth, web site and on Ebay.
We managed to share many of our collections with you throughout the year. These pieces decorate or provide function in our little abode. Peruse some of these revelations from this year with me:
My first discovery of the intrinsic value of antiques. Finding the beauty on both sides of a mirror in Wifie’s collection of vintage hand mirrors and small mirrors. Enjoy the colorful array of glass paperweights or get ready for a group of friends to drop by with a full ice bucket from my collection.
We covered our antique furniture, antique lighting accenting our rooms, 
the items that adorn our fireplace and the doorknobs we are still working to replace with old ones. We touched on Wifie’s collection of Buzza Motto prints and the wonders of the fashions from the turn of the century. She gave us an insight into her earring collection and her love of music.
Over the weeks we showed you these collections here at Collectors’ Quest and shared the adventures we had in scouring for bargains. The “Quest” makes every item a pleasure to collect and we get a special rush at finding a prized possession, like a hopeful couple on their first date.
This year our hunting passion took us to the Cotswald region of Merry Old England, for the vacation of a life time and we shared our experience of viewing, learning and buying antique items. The lessons the shop owners taught, and the items we saw were worth the money twice over.
Other travels took us to Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and the Dakota’s. We shopped and had time to visit dealers at spectiality shows, the Bead and Button Show, store owners or managers, auctioneers, show managers , participants, collecting fanatics and one elf that promised to put in a good word for us this holiday season.
We reported on art sales, a common form of collecting for decorating, at an art fair in a historic setting and on a Gallery with a Galley in a home shaped like a dry docked ship. There was the show where you could have bought a million styles of beads, and an English antique store with 200 year old spice 
cylinders. Plus the interview Wifie had with the operator of the best Antiques Fair in all of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, presented an inside view of the workings of such a venue.
All of the stories we shared, bring back memories we also gathered along the way. Many is the time that the Quest is more important than the booty collected. And often the tales we hear from the people we meet enhance our knowledge of the items we seek.
On a personal note we added another grand baby to our collection, but he’s still too young to sit on a display shelf. That makes five wonderful grandchildren, and three of any one thing is a collection.
Wifie’s Ebay location busted through the 10,000 feed back mark, to earn a shooting star. And we still have a few items we could sell.
And we have another year of great memories.
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