Today I loaned Mike my camera so he could take photos of people like Michael Buble, Stephen Colbert, and The Sedins. I shot all day with my banana cam. Except for my pin collection. I took photos of that when Mike brought my Nikon home safe and sound. It felt weird not to have my big camera with me today.
However, my discomfort was forgotten when I met up with pin collector, Ariane. I met her today for the first time after following her on twitter. I got to meet up with her and her hubby and we went for lunch to talk about pins.
Ariane is an avid pin collector and she really knows her stuff. She taught me the biggest tip to collecting pins and that’s to ASK FOR THEM. You can find pins all over the place – companies frequently just give them away, but you have to ask…they don’t just offer them up. So, keep an eye out for servers in restaurants with pins. Ariane noticed the server today wearing a VISA pin and asked if she had others. Voila! Three pins – one for each of us – with all different graphics on the front. I got a mascot on a skeleton sled! Amazing! I love it. That’s become my pin prized possession.
So first, let me show you what I started with:
I had ZERO pins until The Pin Man gave me this one via Catherine. Next thing I know, Mike’s birth mom in Berwick, Nova Scotia sent me a pile of cute little apple pins. Please note: Berwick is the apple capitol of Nova Scotia. This was very exciting for Bec to find out because she’s from Tasmania – and a slang term for Tasmanians is “Apple Eaters”. Tasmania is also called the Apple Isle of Australia. See? Pins connect us all! Not literally, though. That would hurt.
Pins are magically appearing from all over…I got GM pins from test driving The Volt, then I got mascot pins in the mail from my mom. How she found mascot pins in Calgary for a Vancouver event, I have no idea. And then I got a provincial pin from Kelaine yesterday in the mail, and another friend, Leah, gave me a British Columbia pin with THE LOGO on it. So, I’m all decked out with pins. And this is what I’ve traded and have been gifted with since The Winter Games began:
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