Hello from Canada; returning to PinPics

[kpop]

Hello!

 

I've been collecting and trading pins since 2016—definitely not as long as many on these forums, but long enough to have met some fantastic people through this hobby. 

 

I used to joke that my biggest collection was my traders (and it's probably true) because I love pin trading almost as much as collecting. My tastes and collections have changed over the years, but I always get enjoyment from meeting and chatting with other collectors and traders. I haven't traded a lot online recently, but I'm looking forward to (slowly) getting my pins back onto PinPics and participating in this community.

 

I'm a mother of a toddler and have recently gone back to school after work restructuring... so there is never as much time in the day as I would like to spend on my hobbies, but I'm excited to see the changes being implemented to PinPics and hope that I can make some great trades with others here! I'm not a completist by any stretch, and many of my current collections are small and a bit random. I'm currently ISO some sailboat pins, table tennis pins, Main Street pins, historic/Imagineering pins, and a few others with personal meaning... but there's always something that catches my eye and gets added to new or growing collections.

 

EDIT: Oh, and I'm also ALWAYS willing to adopt 5-legged goats—authentic or not—and give them a loving home in my goat heard. 

 

Attached is a photo of my first three collections: Chip and Dale, Pluto and my only venture into completeness—the DSSH alphabet that I almost couldn't finish because they changed international payment policies part-way through the release schedule. I never would have been able to get the last few sets if it weren't for the kindness of strangers in the pin trading community. I don't know why I was so drawn to that set, but at the time I imagined framing it and putting it in my future child's nursery. Many years (and a long fertility journey) later, it felt like it was always meant to be, when my (then) 22-month old daughter became as enchanted by the collection as I had been when I was acquiring it.

 

Happy pin-trading, Ohana! 
 

 

[buzz2001]

Welcome back!  So awesome that so many are returning to trading and Pinpics.

[12ontheway]

Kpop, happy to have you aboard our PinPic group.  Your collections are awesome.  Stop in on Thursday nights at 7:00 if you can fit it into your tight schedule.  We have a blast and learn about the website at the same time.

[firechief18]

Welcome, We're in Florida and raise Dorper Sheep.

Let us know when you get pinpics updated so we can see if we have anything your looking to get.

[mollyanne]

Welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So glad to have you here!!!! Love your collection pictures!

[sithathoriunet]

Your little one is so darling!  Thank you for sharing a bit of your collection and your story.  Hope we can trade sometime!