Another New Member to DPF
Hi, I am Lisa and we have a whole family of pin collectors. I've been collecting pins since the early 90s. My daughter, Lizzy, started collecting 10 years ago when she was 2. My son has been collecting almost his entire life, too. He is turning 20 next week.
We collect all kinds of pins
The main pins I collect are Tinkerbell, Peter Pan, Halloween, Piglet, some Jiminey, Music pins and some others that catch my attention. I have many books collected over the years. I have so many Tinks that sometimes I forget which pins I have and trade for a duplicate. I wish I could be like my daughter, who seems to always remember which ones she has. I am working on getting my collection on pinpics, but it's taking a long time to update it. I started counting my tink/peter pan pins and didn't realize how many I've got over the years.
Lizzy wants me to tell you that she collect vinylmation pins (and vinylmations, too), cruiseline pins, cast lanyard sets, and nightmare/haunted mansion pins and any other pins that she finds interesting. She doesn't like princes or the pirate pins any more and wants to trade them.
My son's main collection contains star wars, haunted mansion, some cast member pins, pirates, chip and dale, and toy story.
I learned quite a bit from this forum already. Interesting story - I threw away some pins in my son's collection that I thought were "bad" pins only to discover that they were prototypes. Whoops. I read the post too late to get them back. I thought that the person who traded them to my son had given him some bad information and taken his good pins for bad pins. Now I know what those initials on the back were. From now on I'll take a picture of the front and back and post it here and see what they are before I do that again.
I've enjoyed reading the posts and have been having fun deciphering some of the codes. Still trying to figure some of them out. Like the initials in the newbie post about the jessica rabbit pins. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun here.
Lisa
We collect all kinds of pins
The main pins I collect are Tinkerbell, Peter Pan, Halloween, Piglet, some Jiminey, Music pins and some others that catch my attention. I have many books collected over the years. I have so many Tinks that sometimes I forget which pins I have and trade for a duplicate. I wish I could be like my daughter, who seems to always remember which ones she has. I am working on getting my collection on pinpics, but it's taking a long time to update it. I started counting my tink/peter pan pins and didn't realize how many I've got over the years.
Lizzy wants me to tell you that she collect vinylmation pins (and vinylmations, too), cruiseline pins, cast lanyard sets, and nightmare/haunted mansion pins and any other pins that she finds interesting. She doesn't like princes or the pirate pins any more and wants to trade them.
My son's main collection contains star wars, haunted mansion, some cast member pins, pirates, chip and dale, and toy story.
I learned quite a bit from this forum already. Interesting story - I threw away some pins in my son's collection that I thought were "bad" pins only to discover that they were prototypes. Whoops. I read the post too late to get them back. I thought that the person who traded them to my son had given him some bad information and taken his good pins for bad pins. Now I know what those initials on the back were. From now on I'll take a picture of the front and back and post it here and see what they are before I do that again.
I've enjoyed reading the posts and have been having fun deciphering some of the codes. Still trying to figure some of them out. Like the initials in the newbie post about the jessica rabbit pins. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun here.
Lisa
