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[NOTE: If you are looking to get rid of your unwanted scrapbooking or rubber stamping or paper doll magazines/books/publications, please let me know! I am planning to teach scrapbooking / rubber stamping to hearing-impaired students, and the magazines will be a big help to my teaching them, as well as for them to take the magazines home to practice. For more, please e-mail me. Thanks! P.S. Publications need not be in great shape. Also, if you have very old stamps, i.e. grocer stamps of yesteryears, that you do not want, please save for me. I'm writing a book [tentative] on the history of rubber stamps and the values...if you'd like to help, e-mail me! Thanks. Meanwhile, here's my "History of Rubber Stamps" article...enjoy!] Check out my "RubberStampAuction About Me" page
Here's a pasted interview of a questionnaire provided by former columnist Jenny Slawson of Antiques and Collecting magazine. I originally submitted my letter/2 pictures via snail mail in 2003 for their "A Passionate Collector" column where they asked for submissions, and Jenny e-mailed me expressing interest and stated it would take 24 months. I e-mailed back stating I'd gladly wait. After 24 months of waiting and nothing, I e-mailed her again for an update, and she e-mailed me the questionnaire on Sept. '05. Jenny unfortunately quit her column and was replaced by a new columnist who knew nothing about me- even the editor couldn't find my submission. Sloppy ethics. I got tired of waiting for them to finally publish this, so to make it worth my time invested and for you visitors...here it is for now [thanks]:
What do you collect?
Shih Tzu dog and Persian and tuxedo cats collectibles
What is your particular specialty?
Figurines and rubber stamps and cookie cutters.
How many pieces are in your collection?
Here are some particulars as a start...
Figurines: 17 different Shih Tzu (16th one inside a water globe), 11
different Persian (12th one inside water globe), 2 different tuxedo
Statues: 2 different Shih Tzu (3rd one is a lamp), 1 Persian, 2
different tuxedo
Knick-knacks: 6 different Shih Tzu (2 of them same), 1 Persian (2nd
different one is custom-made dollhouse size to look just like Rudy, 1 tuxedo (2nd different one is custom-made dollhouse size to look just like Cleo also)
Rubber stamps: 21 different Shih Tzu, 9 different Persian, 5 different tuxedo
Cookie Cutters: 2 different Shih Tzu, 2 different Persian, various mixed cats
Stuffed Dolls: 4 different Shih Tzu (smaller 3 of them in different poses), 1 Persian
Stuffed Stickers: 1 Shih Tzu, 1 tuxedo
Do you have any stories about your collecting experiences? This is the fun stuff
the reason people read this column. The more personal experiences the better!
In 1992, after adopting Beau, my Shih Tzu, I wanted to purchase something that reflected my love of him and the breed I fell in love with. I first spotted a Shih Tzu rubber stamp in a mail-order catalog and casually ordered it. This was before the internet, so I could not truly expand my collection, and finding more stamps was next to impossible. I left it at that. Next, I purchased a stencil of a Shih Tzu via mail-order also. I scoured many shops, antique marts, and flea markets. I even found very old magazines (1960s) such as Cat Fancy and McCalls, which I sometime collect whenever something strikes my fancy on-site. My interest in rubber stamping eventually grew by late 1990s. When I eventually got an internet account in 1999, I searched eBay first for figurines and found many Shih Tzu, Persian, and tuxedo cat collectibles that I could bid on, to add to my collection to display all over my home. I wanted to collect and display figurines that looked like 1st pet, Cleo my late great tuxedo cat and my dearly departed Rudy, the red and white Persian cat. I am very specific on coat colors reflecting my cats and for the versatile Shih Tzu, any color was fine but prefer gold and white to be more similar to Beau's liver and white. Now that I have a new-ish addtion to the family, Brandy my flamepoint Persian, I have recently but slowly just included my collection based on her colors.
How did you get started and how long have you been collecting?
I had just upgraded to a one bedroom apartment and deciding on a theme to decorate and figured I might was well work up from my pet collectibles as a foundation. Been collecting since mid-1990s.
Do you have other collections as well?
In the order: figurines/statues/knick-knacks, rubber stamps, punches , stencils/templates, cookie cutters -- all based on holidays and seasonal, dolls -- 1970s only. Nowdays, mainly rubber stamps- you can collect numerous amounts and still have room for them and they're sensible for the budget, because you can use and display them = utilitarian.
Do you belong to any collecting associations?
Not yet.
Do you have any role models?
Rubber stamp artists of yester-years.
What advice do you have for collectors starting out in this field?
Stick to your specialty so that your collection doesn't get out of hand or break your budget or turn your place into looking like a shop.
Have you ever had any pieces lost, stolen or broken?
Nope.
What piece was the most difficult to find and why?
Actually, it was any rubber stamp made a century ago. I wanted to at least proudly own a very old stamp or stamps made during the Victorian era, when the Post Office types were commonly made. I finally found a great eBay seller who was auctioning of a set of wood-type set (alphabet, numbers, etc.) that was patented on August 23, 1892. The starting bid was at a generous $5.00, and I had to outbid two bidders and paid $15.00 for it. I inquired the seller how she acquired this unique item (as she called it). She replied that she got it from a traveling friend who gave it to her. The item had been well-cared for all these years (it doesn't even smell bad) and is on display in my living room. It only needed a little bit cleaning up, so that I don't ruin its original contents, especially the hardened leather cover.
What is the piece that you would most like to acquire?
Possibly more very old rubber stamps such as grocer ones that were used to stamp on fruits. And, very old cookie cutters. No reproductions please!
Visit Karen Catalioto's Home Page at http://www.geocities.com/shihtzuforum to view more about her collection. If you have anything that you think she might be interested in, contact her via her website.
[published here on May 10 '07]
Last updated: April 4, 2012
"Hell hath no fury like a scrapbooker whose paper is messed up!"
~ Patsy Gaut"Don't mess with a scrapper, they'll punch your eyelets out!!"
~ unknown
"Good thing you got here Lassie, we were getting ready to scrapbook, and we were going to use the scallop scissors." "I have made pictures of all of the valuble items that might be stolen. I even used the Bind-It All to make a book."
~from TV show Psych (snip)...the character is [cable-TV's] Dexter, a forensics guy on the Miami police department by day and serial killer (who only kills really bad guys) by night. His sister, Deb, is a police officer in his same office. In the episode with the scrapbooking talk, a fellow cop tells Deb that she really needs to get a life outside the police department, maybe take up a hobby like gardening or scrapbooking. Later, Deb asks Dexter, "What the *&*% is scrapbooking?" (Deb has quite a mouth on her). And Dexter matter-of-factly shoots out: "The tradition of putting photos and memorabilia into family keepsake albums along with relevant journaling." Deb just stares at him and says she doesn't even want to know how he knows that. Yes, apparently scrapbooking of interest to serial killers!
Later, Deb is interviewing a pimp about a case she is working on. He suggests that she could make a lot more money working for him than as a cop, and then she would have cash for some extracurricular activities. Deb goes nuts, takes the guy down, and yells: "I'm a cop. That's all I need! I'm not going to do any *&*% scrapbooking!" The pimp is totally confused and says, "Scrapbooking??"(/snip).
Others with scrapbooking mentionables: TV's Arrested Development, New in Town- starring Renee Zellweger & Harry Connick, Jr.
"There is only one person who can write the story of your life, with all its foibles, follies, treasures, and tears. That person is you."
~ Kathleen Adams "May the child within your heart stay forever."
~ unknown "Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing in life's simplest pleasures like a rainy afternoon, a swingset, and a giant puddle to play in."
~ Chrissy Ogden "I never feel age...if you have creative work, you don't have age or time."
~ Louise Nevelson "To love another person is to see the face of God."
~ Victor Hugo "In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
~ Dereke Bruce Fur kids are family too!
They hand out love to you
When the rest of the world is angry
Or doesn't like you very much
All a fur baby asks for
Is a gentle loving touch.
~ unknown "Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
and working together is success."
~ Henry Ford "Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
~ Chinese Proverb "Recall it as often as you wish;
a happy memory never wears out."
~ Libbie Fudim "Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today."
~Gloria Gaither "Life is the sum of all your choices."
~ Albert Camus "Love and time...those are the only two things in all the world that cannot be bought, but only spent."
~ Gary Jennings Famous scrapbookers:
actress Lisa Whelchel (TV's The Facts of Life)
talk-show hostess Leeza Gibbons, who sells her line of products under Legacies ("Leeza")
author Paula Danziger (The Cat Ate My Gymsuit)
singer Marie Osmond
actress Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix)
singer Madonna
news anchor Gretchen Carlson (Fox and Friends)
TV actress Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five)
TV personality Anderson Cooper
TV actress Leah Remini
singer Britney Spears
model Cindy Crawford
British movie actress Helena Bonham Carter
actress Maria Bello
Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson
singer Christina Aguilera
socialite Kim Kardashian
interior designer India Hicks
hotel heiress socialite Paris Hilton, who exhibited her new line at the Winter 2009 CHA
Rosie O'Donnell (actress, talk-show hostess) "I am a nerd scrapbooker." (Rosie quoted while as new co-host of TV's The View)
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner(!) who claimed to have had 2,000 scrapbooks made by himself: "Scrapbooking is a big thing nowadays, but I have done it since I was a boy."
TV anchor/personality Nancy O'Dell, who joined Creative Memories (consultant team) and wrote a book about scrapbooking.
domestic doyenne Martha Stewart
Martha's daughter Alexis and daughter's friend Jennifer's show on cable-TV's Fine Living channel, Whatever, Martha! featured an episode about scrapbooking with guest Bridgette Server of Making Memories (brand company), where Alexis and Jennifer exercised their jab trademarks on the set while watching that past episode (about making fun of Martha- as per agreement with Martha, of course) about the hobby of scrapbooking. Alexis somewhat thinks it's a waste of time, while Jennifer supports it.
TV actress Camryn Manheim (The Practice (& also former sign language interpreter for the hearing-impaired))
Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
model/actress Brooke Shields
TV chef Julia Child collected rubber stamps and embellished her personal correspondences
Diane Keaton (movie actress from Woody Allen film, Annie Hall) collected a whimsical array of rubber stamps
writer Tom Robbins collected rubber stamps
writer Saul Steinberg of The New Yorker magazine had his vast rubber stamp collection exhibited
son of movie boss Richard Darryl Zanuck
actress Helen Hunt (TV's Mad about You)
Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")
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actress Katie Holmes (TV's Dawson's Creek
from The National Enquirer, print ed., Oct. 6 '08:
Katie Holmes has become a scrapbooking addict - and she's dedicated an entire room in her $35 million Beverly Hills mansion to her new hobby, sources say.
Katie's always been artistic, making homemade cards for friends, and sketching designs for clothes, a close friend confided to The Enquirer.
Her mom turned her on to scrapbooking, and now she spends more than $3,000 a month on scrapbook materials! Her scrapbooking room is incredibly elaborate with ribbons, labels, decals and paper meticiously organized on beams that run from one wall to another. She put together a gift scrapbook for close pals Victoria and David Beckham to commemorate their first year in the US, said the source. Since then she's made books for her husband Tom Cruise's mother and sister, their close friends Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, and she's already working on books for her co-stars in the upcoming Broadway play, All My Sons. Katie spends hours scrapbooking with her 2 year-old daughter Suri - and helped her stepdaughter Isabella, 15, make a scrapbook for her mom, Nicole Kidman and [her] new daughter, said the source. Bella wanted baby Sunday to have a keepsake with pictures and mementos from her life and her brother Connor's life, said the source. Also, in the Katie Holmes movie, Pieces of April, it showed a scene where April (Holmes character) was rubber stamping on placecards (napkins) for a Thanksgiving setting. Although she was not actually seen rubber stamping, the stamps were sitting on the table next to her crafts. an episode of cable-TV's How Clean Is Your House featured a messy homeowner being interviewed in front of her shelves of rubber stamp collection an episode of HGTV's Dear Genevieve featured a scrapbooking room makeover. an episode of The Suze Orman Show featured a scrapbooker who phoned in wondering whether she could afford to go on a $200 scrapbook retreat(?) an episode of 'til Debt Do Us Part featuring a scrapbooker who had a huge collection of Stampin' Up wood stamps. a special episode of cable-TV's Petfinder featured a little girl named Star who wanted to adopt a horse of her own for a pet to ride on. Her mother showed the crew and viewers her scrapbook layouts of Star riding and winning horse ribbons & trophies. Star was born prematurely with complications and survived; doctors initially didn't think she'd be able to talk in verbatim or grow up a normal girl but she proved them wrong. re: Frontier Airlines TV ad audition reel: They ask the wombat his hobbies and he says, tennis, scrapbooking, and sucking the blood out of living creatures. The rabbit then asks him to back up, what was that one. Sucking the blood out of living creatures? No the other one. Scrapbooking? Ehw, get that freak out of here!!! A comic about scrapbooking is featured in the May 30, 2005 (p. 66) issue of The New Yorker magazine.
The comic strip, ZITS, featured a scrapbooking theme during the week of June 7-10, 2004 and also July 2, 2006. They appear in color online and b/w in national newspapers.
Another national comic strip, Cathy, was featured on June 26, 2005 about photo organizing. More comics featuring scrapbooking: Baby Blues (April 8, 2007) about putting scrapbook together and scissors (date unknown), Ziggy (July 5, 2007) about memories, Mark Pett (November 18 2007) about photoshopping, Cul De Sac (December 1, 2007) about taking pictures (and May 2, 2008 about scrapbooking 'stalking') (and November 9, 2008 about about the 'pressure' of quality scrapbooking). For more scrapbook-related comics, check out The Complete Idiot's Guide to Scrapbooking and Scrapbooking for Dummies (and Digital Scrapbooking for Dummies) books. There are 3 books in a Scrapbook Mysteries series written by mystery author Laura Childs [which is her pen name- real name is Gerry Schmitt], featuring scrapbooking: Keepsake Crimes, Photo Finished, Bound for Murder, Motif for Murder, & Scrap Trap.
I WON! I WON! The author released the 6th installment of the Scrapbook Mysteries book series in 2007, Frill Kill. The Country Register newsprint had a drawing contest in Dec. 2007 and my name was chosen the following month! Editor/Founder Barbara Floyd sent me a surprise announcement in the mail...a beautiful hardbound of Frill Kill for me to treasure. I dropped her a line to thank her. There's a paperback about scrapbooking & scrapbookers released in June '06, Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker's Soul. Why they didn't contact me to contribute is beyond me (I didn't even know they were coming out with this version)...since they didn't select my contribution about my rescue Persian cat, Brandy, for their Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul, I will not buy their scrapbook version. Maybe check in the library. Their loss! Look out for the Wes Thomsen film documentary, Scrapped, to debut in theatres on Aug. 5, 2006, about the female-dominated world of the beloved scrapbooking hobby!
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