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If I could collect one thing, it would be other people's collections. I love to go to someone's home and discover a collection: the wacky furniture-less living room full of crystal I once encountered at an open-house; the army of frog figurines greeting me when I visited a faraway uncle's apartment for the first time. Collections always seem so eloquent, like quirky illustrations of a person's soul: My husband's records are as much a part of him as his limbs. So I can't believe I've never before come across the wonderful Collection a Day project of artist Lisa Congdon, but maybe it's for the best. Now that she's already lived her Year of Collections, we get to browse through all 365 collections—real and imagined—at once. 

Arranged and photographed by Congdon, an arrangement of vases looks like a group of girls standing around at a party. Her drawing of vintage baking dishes resembles a small flock of expectant boats. Browsing through the blog offers the singular pleasure of readjusting your vision to see the beauty of every day objects (who knew tape measures were so beautiful?) And I especially love that she's included "imagined collections." What could be better than an imagined collection? No storage. No dusting. No limits.

Check out more of Lisa Congdon's whimsical work at her site. (Oh yeah, and for all you print media collectors, Collection a Day is a now a book.)

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