Contextualising collections - Blogithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/I've had a range of collections and I have been thinking that rather than aimlessly have collections, maybe I can make a collection thematically, and contextualise the collectionhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00collecting a list of political parties that have opened and shut in Southhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/785758Asian countries in the last fifty years. Anyone care to point me to any sites you know on this?The barns and their contents and contexthttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/768321The barns and their content The content and their context The storage style n their context The context and the class The class and the caste context About what? The barns and their contentConnect the collection to the times it was collected in and to thehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/729140situation and circumstances under which it was collected and our understandings of the collection become that much clearer. What say? It gives us a sense about the collector items as well as the collector.Collecting Christmas buntings with themeshttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/728228I do know that cribs have themes which focus on any one dimension. But have you come across Christmas buntings which are innovative and which try to get across the message of Christmas in the context of today's times. I sure would be interested to collect pictures of such buntings. Perhaps some...Who can afford certain types of collections?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/727434Who can afford certain types of collections? How can certain persons afford certain collections? That's the question also being asked in the item pasted below. But like all posts at election time, this one also raises doubts/ Surely if he has a collection like this, it's been known all along? Why...You collect matchsticks but...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/726864You collect matchsticks of diffferent sorts Today many of them speak of an era; but I can't collect cos I have scent and eau de cologne and fuel for my firewood all over the place and it's riskyI collect stamps and coins but you can't...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/726432I collect stamps and coins But you can't collect them because you know no one abroad, you know no one who can share stamps or coins with you and you ain't got the money to buy 'emLandscaping with the collection of pebbles ...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/725800My cousin does landscaping of the vast property around her house, with the assorted pebbles that she collects along life's journey be it within our country or abroad, and what a fascinating kaleidoscope it turns out to be! But of course, this is a luxury that only someone with lots of land can...Collecting dust...now this is offbeat...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/724729It's not about collecting dust. It's about collections collecting dust. When does that happen? When people are careless with their collections...when the area where the collection is kept is dust-prone....when people don't have the possibilities of dusting because of their schedules....when...Amazed by variety...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/723545Talking of collections, I am amazed by the variety of things people collect, and I am also amazed by the variety of collections within each theme or item. People collect things ranging from matchsticks to cars. And within collections, a literary collection may be all about collecting translated...