Saturday, April 27, 2013

My New Collection Of…Pigs?!

Hi everyone. Right now I'm sitting on a small brick wall, blogging on my iPad, in front of a luminously green lawn, all alone save a woodpigeon. It's sunny but with a cold breeze. The grass is wet with dew. No prizes for guessing that this weekend we're in Suffolk at the country house, not London.

OMG, just realised that that first paragraph sounded WAY too much like last week's "Spring Is In The Air!!!" post. Sorry. You now have every right to say "Shut up, DP, and if you're going to talk, talk about something other than random picturesque landscapes! How about that weird post title you made up!". Well, to be fair, you had the right to say that before, because this blog believes in freedom of speech and as far as I'm concerned you can think whatever you like about my writing. And photography and videos and whatever else I happen to publish online. But I'm going off on another tangent (today is a very tangenty day, and I think I just coined a new word. Maybe it'll go viral). Better get to the point, and quick.

Anyway, now we can forget that second paragraph ever happened. And besides, you're probably wondering somewhere deep down in your brain, maybe even subconsciously, about what on Earth the titular Pig Collection is. Well, when we were on holiday last, my mum was telling an sad tale during breakfast about how a few years back she lost some of her postcard collection, which she'd had since she was five. Then I thought that I don't really have a collection of linked objects that I'd be really sad about if I lost one of the set (well, I suppose I have my collection of blog posts, but they're not really material…), and I asked my family for suggestions on what I should collect. There were weird, wonderful and just plain mad ideas put forward, from objects the length of my handspan (right, genius. What do I do when it changes?) to coyotes (oh, you see a lot of those on the souvenir shop rounds, don't you?) to six-inch-long objects (here lies DP, who always had a tape measure slung around her shoulder) to practically every animal figurine you can think of. And conventional things like snow globes, stickers or gemstones. My dad even had the "practical" idea of carrying on one of our family traditions which has existed as long as I can remember: getting a decorated tin every birthday and Christmas. They're nice tins and it's a fair idea, but that's something my parents made up, and not me, so it feels like too much of a prerogative. So I had to say no.

So the crisis remained unresolved until about a week after school started again. My mum was down at my Nana's house in Rottingdean and they were discussing the collection issue. My Nana collects mini, mainly high-heeled shoes which she displays on her bathroom cabinet, which I think is a lovely idea, but a) I don't want to copy her and b) mini shoes aren't really my thing, I much prefer real ones :D. However, before the shoe phase, I discovered my Nana also collected…PIGS! Now that's more up my street…

So my mum accepted the collection suggested, so Nana (hey Nana, and thanks!) gave me a couple to start my collection off! Aren't they so cute? I love how they aren't really straight pink piglets, but they're designed in a more sophisticated way. Also, they don't seem picture perfect; like people, they both have little appearance quirks, which I think makes them more real and not just figurines. The black pig has his green eyes and his broken leg (although that is something my dad is mending at the moment) and the glass pig has those red ears. And I genuinely think there's expression in those little eyes on the glass pig, especially in the solo photo. He looks like a despondent piglet stranded in a sea of wooden table, poor thing.

As you've probably gleaned, I have found what I want to collect. I am so sure of this (and I love the two first inductees so much) that I have placed them in the part of my bedroom I call the Cute Animal Shelf (see picture below). The empty part of said shelf is now officially devoted to my pigs, which I will always keep an eye out for!
-DP :)
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12 comments:

  1. Cool pig collection. Erm what is the gadget that tells viewers what book you're reading? I would like to use it for my blog.

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  2. Thanks so much Me! The gadget is basically just called Image, and you put an image of the cover and put the title in the caption. Or if you don't want the cover image, use the gadget called Text. I really recommend using these gadgets, they're really good!
    -DP :)

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  3. The pigs are so cute :)I love all your collection.Previously I collected mini statues.Today I have collections of postcards,tea-bags and chocolate papers.I think it's very exciting to collect something :DD
    Love Patty♥

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    1. Thank you so much! Those sound very interesting collections, especially the tea-bags and chocolate papers. I'm looking to getting more pigs!
      -DP :)

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  4. Hey DP! What did you search when you tried to get the gadget... I cannot find it when I search it... Where did you get it from?

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    1. Well, I got the image gadget from the Layout tab on Blogger. Basically just press Add Gadget wherever you want to add it.
      -DP :)

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  5. We have chickens, and seem to get given chickenee things, although I'm not complaining that or dragons although the question then comes to needing space!

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    1. Yeah, those are good ideas of things to collect!
      -DP :)

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  6. Omg I thought you were going to share pictures of real pigs :)) they are cute :)

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    1. Lol, thanks so much! I will look at your blog soon!
      -DP :)

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