Today learning Power Point was fun. I've committed to my subject and now I need to decide how I will present it. More people in the first group chose blogging, but Power Point looks very effective, too.
I need to say why I chose my subject. I am married to a person who collects various things. So I bought a bookj called "The Cultures of Collecting: from Elvis to antiques - why do we collect things" edited by John Elsner and John Cardinal and published by Melbourne University Press in 1994. I was most interested in an interview with Robert Opie, pages 25 to 48 in this book. I have since seen reproductions of old packaging copyright to Robert Opie.
I like to make things and will often go to op shops looking for interesting fabrics and 'notions' (objects used to make things like buttons, zips, cotton, lace, cloth tapes, bias bindings). Following Roberts Opie, I started to see these objects, when found in their packets, as historical records of what people had available to them when they were making their own clothes, as my grandmother and mother used to do. Then the packets started to become as important as the object inside. I was in one of the antique shops in Oatlands, Tasmania, and saw a small wooden shop fitting with Lightning zippers written on the side and for $55 it was mine. Yesterday, 27 July 2009, I went to the Collectibles from the Tip shop in Elizabeth St, Hobart and was excited to see a number of jacket zippers in green packets branded lightning zippers.
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