Wednesday

Put this in the why didn't I think of that file. A book about collections. Amazing. I'm starting the sequel tonight. Well, maybe this weekend. Uh, two weekends from now. Never mind.

Marilynn Gelfman Karp Started collecting when she was very young, and it was a bug that never let go. I love that she collects everything, and I mean everything ( not just because it makes me feel better about myself, I swear). She has 300+ collections, but her favorites are incredible-

"She cites two eccentric collections as her most beloved. "Unintended survivors" is made up of things meant to be destroyed (fireworks, foil trinkets to bake into a cake). "Poignant repairs" is a motley crew of broken objects fixed in inventive ways: a porcelain teapot for which someone fashioned an elaborate metal corset and handle, a tortoiseshell comb strengthened with engraved silver. "There are collectors of things with intrinsic value—gold or diamonds or baseball cards. Then there's another group of people who love the unloved," she says. "These are the purest kind." - From NY MAG