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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2194 Location: shippensburg

oh . drat.

geez.

ok. i'm gonna add to my nerdiness.

i posted. i debated reposting. debated some more.

but i'll let it out.

i'm on the board for AMSA (American Medallic Sculpture Association) and we consist of medalists and numismatics and collectors.

so, yes, i'm on the board of an organization of coin collectors (i'm one who makes coins/medals..that's why i'm in the organization)....

ok. /pushes black nerd glasses up. got me again. let me fly my nerd flag w/pride!!!!

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3068 Location: Chambersburg

DH collects coins...I have to hide my change from him, he's always spreading it out and digging through it...

I want to make coins and medals!!!!

How did you experience all this stuff?! Who taught you? Where do you go to do all your fun artsy, creative stuff?

I wanna do stuff like that!! I don't care if I'm good, I just need an outlet!!!

WAH!!!

ish jealous
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2194 Location: shippensburg

who taught me? me i guess. i've always drawn since i could hold a crayon in any fashion possible. i drew, drew, drew and then i shifted around 5 to painting on top of that. that evolved into sculpture/photography when i was in 6th gr....then printmaking in 12th and then digital and ceramics and other misc things in undergrad....and jewelry and book making in grad. and i would doodle, so to speak, and read as much as i could on anything arty i could get my hands on. books books books. collages were always on my list of fun things too....so, really, i don't really know where other than from me and my books....

what are you interested in doing? i can pass you some links to help you get going or some tidbit guidelines....OR...i could start an art project of the week thread (& craft) and then we could post what we do at the end of the week. thoughts??? i'd be happy to start that if anyone's interested. give out a project and whoever wants to can work on it then we can share what we've done.

cool idea sort of.

yay chel! you inspired me!!!

lemme know what you think and if you want, i'll start it up Very Happy

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3068 Location: Chambersburg

Um Yes.

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.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3068 Location: Chambersburg

I thought you already smelt.
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2194 Location: shippensburg

i'll work on that tomorrow then, my lovely chel! Smile

i'll come up with some projects Very Happy

QueenofHearts · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 379 Location: On the Computer

I collect Wheats! I've got a 1909 -s VDB In excellent condition!

My Dad used to be a local truck driver (in CA). When ever he would change from the merchants, he'd check for wheats for me. I would buy them off him for 2 cents. I have roughly 1,800 of them. I've filled in one book all the way and several other nearly all the way. Then the rest are just in a box, smelling like copper.

One day he came home with only one. He got it from the Deli. The Kosher Deli. Our Kosher Deli guy was so frugal, had he of known that he gave my Dad a penny worth more that $100 bucks at the time, he would have fainted! Shocked

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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2194 Location: shippensburg

wheats are AWESOME!!!

i collect them too when i see them...then i give them to my dad who likes them. i got 2 in one day last week. how fun! (one in good shape, 1 in 'eh' shape, but still cool!)

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3068 Location: Chambersburg

DH has an ammo can full of coins. He also has a few penny books. I asked him why he needed more than one he said one was an original, one was a new starter and one was for 'the boy'. ('The boy' has only been able to look at it twice and only then under H's eagle eye!)

So, coins, various boxes of cables and coated wire, plugs, power supplies, old motherboards, drives, bits of metal, some rusted and that's just one corner of our computer room/study! (It's a corner 'pile' that expands outward daily.) You don't want to see is actual work spaces!! If H wasn't human he'd be a hairy hoarder.

Honestly, I'm a packrat, too, but my stuff has value and his doesn't!
Besides, I actually purge every once in awhile.

bleh
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2194 Location: shippensburg

purged my closets last week. round 2. i think i need 4 rounds tho. /sigh

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3068 Location: Chambersburg

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2194 Location: shippensburg

i have way too many clothes. i'm trying to downsize. i have...oh, god, i'm almost ashamed to admit it...4 closets and some dressers. o.O

am working on it...i don't wear a lot of it so i'm just dumping it....

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3068 Location: Chambersburg

A month ago, I found a black velvet hot pant and jacket outfit I used to wear to clubs. Embarassed

I was such teh hoochie. Embarassed

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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2194 Location: shippensburg

LOL....

i found a dress from my size 2 days. Shocked

(am a healthier 10 now hehe)