Photo A Day Challenge Day 5

I collect. . .

Lots and lots of things. I was able to combine two things I collect in one picture. My books and my elephants.

Photo Challenge Day 22

I have been taking pictures of everything on the Photo Challenge (for the most part). But these past few weeks have been so crazy busy that I haven't had much of a chance to blog. So I will get around to posting them all soon enough. But for now, here is today's.

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Elephant

Yesterday I received some more elephants.

Jon went caving with the Pathfinders over the weekend and returned with presents for all of us. Mine were these two cute elephants.

They are now sitting on a shelf in my library.

Elephants

I wrote a post about a year and a half ago about some elephants that I'd inherited.

I really wish that someone had asked Grandmother where each elephant came from. There is a story with each one and I regret not knowing. So this has prompted me to tell the story with each of my own.

This candle holder was actually given to me several years before I inherited Grandmother's elephants. 

I found it still in the box when we were unpacking and put it in the pile for Goodwill. I was in a cleaning mood and didn't want to dust around something else. Lucky for me I opened the box one last time to 

check before putting the donations in the car. 

When I saw that it was an elephant and not the cat I was remembering I kept it.

It was given to me by a friend for Christmas.

This elephant was also given to me a few years before my collection.

One of my dear friends moved to Thailand and brought this back with her on one of her trips home.

This was a mother's day present. I'd seen an elephant necklace in a store catalog, but when we went to the store they were out of stock. So I came home and found one on etsy. It doesn't resemble the one in the catalog at all, but I like it.

This one is my most recent one. We were walking through the gift shop at Ruby Falls and I spotted him sitting on a shelf. He was only a couple of dollars so I went ahead and bought him.

(Not sure why I'm calling it a him.)

Each time I receive another elephant I'll document when/where I received it so that someday when my children inherit all of these elephants they'll at least know where mine came from.