Acquiring Strange Things

There's been quite a bit of talk lately of "stuff" going on in blogland. That is...on the acquiring, accumulation, attachment, and worshiping and adoration of stuff. Indeed, the title of this blog is partially taken from my love for "stuff". It's primarily taken from my favorite Shakespeare quote, but also taken from my love of collecting fantasy related things. I certainly have a tendency to be a pack rat at times and attach to things very quickly. My newest love is 4 sheets of paper that I bought for $1 at Michael's yesterday. See...it doesn't take much to make me happy. My one true love is books. That should be no surprise to anyone.

There's something about thumbing through books, looking at books on a shelf, collecting books, smelling the pages of books (and getting very odd looks while doing so), taking photos of books (and once again, getting verry odd looks while doing so), and just having them. I don't think that there's a place in my house where there is not a book within range of the eyes. They're all over the place here. It's gotten to be quite an expensive affair. As one grows attached to stuff, one tends to discover the sub-genres of said stuff. For me, it's the small presses (such as Subterranean) that offer the more expensive "limited" editions of books. Of course these are embellished, or signed, or numbered, or have really cool artwork, and you dish out the money for them. But as an avid book lover, I don't mind spending a little bit more.

I've come to be the same way with art over the years. I've collected anything that catches the eye be it small sculptures from garage sales, papers, prints, notebooks, journals, frames, just about anything, and this love has kind of spilled over into books as well.

Carl and Literacy-Chic have both written interesting posts recently on their take on Stuff and I highly recommend that you read them. Good stuff there (no pun intended).

What sparked my decision to write this post was a text message from my sister that was truly bizarre...It read: "Do u want a gold plated vintage ant farm?" To which I replied "Uh sure..Whatever that is I'll take it." I never turn down more stuff ;)

Everyone seems to be enjoying the paper that I bought yesterday and due to Quixotical's excellent online hunting skills, I now know that the paper is made by a company called Die Cuts With a View. Click the name to be taken to their website. You can't order from their website, but their paper is sold in most craft stores and if you do a Yahoo or Google search you can find online retailers that carry their stuff. I love their Once Upon a Time and Far East lines of paper. Really cool stuff. I think I'm going to have to buy some and possibly take Quix's idea of making bookmarks!