Steph

I worked really hard recently to be able to draw something well enough that a five-year-old would like it. Or at least recognize it. Didn't want to let down my little penpal. I'll watch from the sidelines for now.

a treasure

We had two cool collections recently from grandparents. I thought yours was one of them. They don't happen that often. Only 15 marbles? Blasphemy!

This? http://biblefreak.org/marbles/web/MibID/JABO_2008_Joker_I_Cranberry_Types/

Classic.

A Dolly Parton 45 of Jolene, slowed down to 33 rpm

lol

That's a lot of big guns!

Ha! I didn't think to use them to stand other marbles on!

I'm starting to feel okay about my picture taking. Still need a dedicated picture taking place and would like to be able to take photos after dark. Maybe in the new house. For now ... this was taken out on the porch with the sun behind the rainclouds. And it worked for me.

Classic!

@ the i-phone promise. The pictures aren't so bad!

If I remember correctly, a lot of your marbles came together as an inheritance. Is that right? ... some nice ones which deserve to stay together.

Go Pack! Borrowing Ed's picture for the green and gold

You're right it does look nice. I'm impressed that you could get that close and that neat on your first try without the dedicated equipment.

Hocus Pocus !

You know you're a marble addict when all containers are rated for their marble-storage potential.

Repost from the beginning ... just because .....

Soothing, like watching running water or listening to rain. It was good to see your hand at the beginning. That helped show the scale. And cool effect at the end watching the title turn into colorful randomness.

Not footballs ... and not showing them off well ... but these are some of my favorite deformities. They have flat bottoms or creases which give them built-in marble stands. (And a few in this pic are flat-out halfs, so they have their own built-in base that way.)

It's soooo hard. "This one has a tail." "This one has a flame pattern." "This one has shades of blue that that one doesn't." Et cetera!

We're getting down the homestretch in the sort. The marbles which were gifts (small sets) from the various runs are safe. Well, "safe" from being discarded. I stored my first several runs in one single box, separated with loose dividers ... and then I tripped ... so one day I'm going to ask for help telling them apart. But they're mostly safe and I didn't repeat that mistake. But I had soooo many of the Last Dances and Tributes. I've had some good help finding new homes for many of them. But here are the "SemiFinals" of my keeper sort. I wanted to fit all the keeper Last Dances into one glass-top case and all the keeper Tributes into a second case. Below you see how well that's going. The Last Dance case semi-final sort in progress: The Tribute case semi-final sort in progress: