aleecee

Stefan...we are not alone!!!

Nice collection! I LOVE euro sparklers and just got a bunch from ebay...auctions have been slow to dead lately so I have been buying on line... I miss finding mibs in the wild!

I have always liked small colorful things....hooked on Christmas lights, my mom sewed and I used to spend time digging through her tins of old buttons and sequins, sorting-lining them up (mkes me sound a bit like Rain Man!) loved the way new crayons looked in the box..you get the picture. I grew up in NYC, and lived in an apt. There was a "magic room" on each floor (AKA the "porter's closet") where tennants could throw away larger items that did not fit in the incinerator shoot. The porter's closet was amazing for a kid..old clothes, suitcases, shoes, jewelery boxes, empty perfume bottles, books and on an on. My brother and I came home with many a treasure! Sad to day, I never found any marbles there, but my love of little colored things and sifting through junk led me to a life filled wtih flea markets, antique malls, yard sales etc. Found my first colored clay marbles at a flea market in Bloomsburg Pa where I went to school...it's been marbles since then!

Thanks Steph...! Love your grumpy Cat avatar. He is just too cute

Hello Everyone. My name is Alyce, aka Aleecee on this site. I have been a marble collector since my college days. As life went on from college to current empty nest, my marble collecting has varied from minimal to avid, depending upon where I was in my life. I started out with handmades but have fallen victim to machines mades as well (handmades were harder and harder to find...I had to do something!). My husband and I like to venture out to auctions on the weekends, hunting up new marbles. I am active on the AAM site, and see many familiar and lovely faces (speaking figuratively of course) here. Look forward to learning more, sharing what I know and making new marble friends. There's no hobby better than this, and no better people than marble people!!!