Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Badge Collection

It's time to show off my badge collection which my Mum was a big contributor in building up. Badges are great to collect because they're usually cheap and small in size, so when you go somewhere you can easily fit them in your luggage to bring home as a souvenir

At my old place I used to display them on my curtains - a nice way to be able to see them everyday.

Its funny to look back on all my badges, I remember wearing those Noddy and Astro boy pins on my school tie in high school :) Our school was pretty strict with fashion so I'm surprised they let people get away with it.  That red tulip-esque plastic badge is also sentimental - it's what I had to wear to show my name when I taught in kindergartens in Japan :)(good memories!)

My new favourite badge definitely has to be my Dove playground brooch (in the middle) that I picked up in Singapore

I like the crazy eye brooch over on the left which I scored from an op shop. unfortunately I ran it throw the washing machine recently (pinned onto a shirt) and the back snapped off :( Don't do that people!

Do any of you Aussies remember Boris's breakfast club? To be honest I really don't but my brother had the badge and I always wanted it for some reason (it was fascinating and sort of creepy to my young brain). I believe it was the kids morning tellie program, a precursor to Aggro's Cartoon Connection :)

I've kept all my first job badges including that delightful Brumbys one :)

The gold moon brooch is another favourite that I bought from a market and over on the right are some badges I picked up in Japan - couldn't afford a Blythe so I bought back pins of them :p

Love that'd David the gnome brooch - there were a few indicators to me that Ben was amazing on first meeting, one was that he owned a more comprehensive David the Gnome book than me!

The brooch I've had for the longest is definitely that gold brooch in the middle with Fiona engraved on it, given to me by my godmother (I think/hope) when I was a wee one!

Brooches are definitely something that I keep my eye out for when I go to thrift stores and as I said before it's a nice cheap hobby to maintain :)

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  1. I love this! Such a cute collection x

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  2. They look so amazing all organized by colour. And I love that you kept your name tag from teaching in Japan. What a unique souvenir.

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    1. Hopefully I was allowed to keep it too :P I'm pretty sure they would be too polite to ask for it back if they saw me walk out with it though!

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  3. I freaking love this. Should be a feature in Frankie, just saying! If I find anything cool as I go thrifting I may just send them your way :)

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    1. aww I love Frankie you're too kind!! :)

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  4. That's some collection! I love love love it. I agree with Sam....I can definitely see it featured in Frankie magazine. I love the small dainty gold one with your name engraved on it from your god mother. So sweet that you still have it.

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  5. this is the best collection! so many pretty colours and designs! I spent ages trying to choose a favourite but there are so many good ones! I love the noddy ones and the green bug one from japan!

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    1. Thank-you and definitely a couple of my favourites too!

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  6. wow! I love your badge collection, you have some great selection :-)

    Katrina Sophia Blog

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  7. i love love your collection! i have a bunch but they were all from my social justice days - so a lot of anti-war related ones and hunger strikes for workers' rights, etc.! i love them though. but i wish i had your astro boy one! that one is nice! i grew up watching it and my brother was always astro boy and i was the little sister. we would wet our hair and try to make those pointy things on their heads! :)

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    1. Those badges sound ridiculously cool Jane and I love love your astro boy story how super sweet :)

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  8. I love how sentimental you are! These pins and brooches are all so pretty. :) I love collecting miniature little objects. I have several woven bracelets that have similar sentimental value, and I love getting a new one after a vacation or trip somewhere.

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    1. I'm definitely a sentimental hoarder :P Love the woven bracelet ideas, it's nice to store memories in objects :)

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  9. such a big big collection :) i usde to have thousands of them but gave almost all of them way!
    maybe when i stop being afraid of the Australian postal service i will send you some :)

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    1. Did you Sara? Sometimes I think having so much stuff is really not a great thing, I flip flop a lot. I'm really attached to me belongings and then I think that's where it becomes unhealthy. Don't worry I wouldn't trust the Australia post, they have possibly just lost another parcel I sent out recently and this one had tracking - so much hate for them! grrrr!

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  10. Your badge collection is so beautiful! I used to collect badges when I was younger but they have all disappeared now, no idea where they have vanished to, I used to have one like that Butterfly that a friend gave me and seeing your brought back old memories!

    Hannah
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    daintyandivory.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. Aww so nice to bring back memories! I too have lost heaps of things, probably a good thing because otherwise I'd really have no room :P

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  11. Your collection is gorgeous!!! Love it so so much. I also love to collect them but mine is not even close to yours ;) although I have some pins from Japan (Mt. Fuji, a panda face and a brass lace) that I adore and I also bought some dear ones from the Wizard of Oz in Peggy Sue during our last summer trip to California. I think I will take your advice and try to make it a deal to buy one badge or pin in every trip, I love the idea. When I was a teenager pins were a huge trend, I remember having a denim vest covered with the Ninja Turtles pins :P Dani wore them on a baseball cap instead (imagine how heavy it can be to hold so much pins in the head :P, crazy kiddo!). I think you should display the collection again in your home, maybe you could frame them? It would look great.

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    1. It's definitely so fun to collect them from places you visit hey - nice little memories. I wonder if you guys have photos of your vest/hat it would be cool to see some vintage Damaris and Dani pics as kids (or maybe you were teenagers!) I definitely need to display them again - I have way too much stuff hiding in boxes :(

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  12. Another fantastic collection!!

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