Many people in the neighborhood know me as "The Collectibles Lady". No, that doesn’t mean that I am some precious commodity that sells for an arm and a leg on eBay. Although I wish that were the case sometimes. No, they call me that because I tend to collect whatever I fancy and put them everywhere from the buffet cabinets to the living room tables. There are the rock collectors and the stamp collectors but I really like to build a wide assortment of anything that strikes me as something I need to keep. Eventually, I will acquire more objects like it and create an assemblage of the same things. I know it sounds crazy but there is a reason. As a baby boomer, I loved my childhood in the 1950s and everything that was representative of that time. The memorabilia that I collect tend to be from that era only and having it makes me feel happy.
Currently, I house all of my Marilyn Monroe figurines, a couple of miniature 10-inch Texaco gas pumps as well as other souvenirs in my china hutch with glass doors. It has two shelves that span across the length of the two doors but lately, I’ve been noticing that even my James Dean memorabilia can’t fit in the allotted space. I can’t allow Jimmy to be pushed to the wayside! Although I love this china hutch to death and it has served me well over the years, I can’t bare to see my favorite 50s film stars fall over and break. This is why I have decided to search for a new china hutch. There are many oversized ones that would be able to keep all of my beloved effects in but I found one special piece of buffet furniture with lights within the shelves to shine bright on my ceramic figurines. The best thing about it is that it was made in the 50s that would be the perfect size and the perfect genre! In fact, it would kind of be a collectible in itself, wouldn’t it?
