Intrepid since 2007

I started collecting tourist pins after we got to London in 2007. I had been planning on collecting charms for a bracelet* but they were hard to find. Pins on the other hand? A lot easier.

They've been sitting in a faux venetian glass box and I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with them ... I'm thinking perhaps a shadow box frame like a collection of pinned butterflies.
I have always intended to photograph them as well. Just in case our house burns down or, more likely, I never get around to doing anything with them.

Here are a few of my favourites:




(two broken key rings from my one day working at Madame Tussauds**)


Guinness Factory, Dublin
















Osaka Aquarium



I collect them to this day. Even in New Zealand.


* in the end I collected all charms from London and adore the resulting bracelet.
** I quit, I wasn't fired. It was horrible.