Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.
I'm not so much a shoe or bag person as jewelry, and I think it's because jewelry is like candy.
I do have little trinkets. I'm a little bit of a hippie, so I have my wisdom rock - it goes with me; it's always in my purse, wherever I go. That's just me, being a hippie.
How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.
I don't have the habit of wearing ornaments.
I don't keep a lot of memorabilia around.
I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?
I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.
I keep my key chain simple because I'm a big believer in luck. And I've heard that having lots of things on it is too much baggage.
I'm not a big fan of the tchotchkes. It always reminds me of a grandma's stuffy home with a million Santa dolls.
My wife collects knickknacks.
Some places that I have been, I have brought a token or some home from different places I have been. Some of them are around the house, and some of them are tucked away safely.
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.
Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.
