There is still a story to tell about how I got one of my first pencils. I was probably as young as 5 when we were on vacation, at a baseball stadium and my Daddy was buying a Baseball Cap and I said I wanted one. Daddy collects hats from each stadium he has ever been to, yes that's a lot. I remember him saying, "Here you can buy this pencil and have a souvenir of your own.". 22years later I have over 170 pencils and only 13 of them are sharpened. I have never used any of them.
I have pencils from all 49 states that I have traveled to, every baseball stadium, all the national monuments we've been to, plenty from Columbus (like The Zoo, COSI, Franklin Park, etc.), I got a few in London and Paris, and even a 24 pack of baseball team pencils that my grandpa got me for Christmas in 1994.
That same year, in the fourth grade my parents got me a set of "Meredith Stohrer Pencils". I kept one in the collection and used the rest. I will never forget the day that a boy in my class took my pencil then claimed to the teacher that is was his. I said to Mrs. Caw, "Please look at the pencil, my name is engraved in it. I know it's mine!". She did and he had to give it back! Normally it would be a silly story but it was test taking time and I was getting yelled at for not having a pencil out on the table and being "ready to go".
I collected the "Rock Pencils" for as long as I could find them... AZ, TX, OH, UT, VA and more!
Family and friends have also brought me back ones from their vacations. Here are my smallest and largest ones; Barbados and Japan!
I remember the first time I found a wooden pencil! I was so excited! It is rare to find one with any text. Thank you Missouri!
Just this past year when Tommy and I stopped through Seattle to visit my friend Chantelle I got a second one from the Space Needle. They are different styles and I have been there twice! :)
I have a two boxes that I keep them in. One with all the "standard sizes" and one with all the over-sized ones or ones with toppers. When I was really little it was fun to pick out the largest craziest pencil I could find. I love the creativity behind the design of some of them. I have a yellow pencil with a skillet and sunny side up egg on top, one that is shapped like a red heart with a little stem on top to make it look like an apple, a light bulb topper and a plastic container shaped like a pencil that says Chicago. Inside of the container I keep all the pencils I got from all our site seeing in the Windy City.
Over the years I have had so much fun collecting them. I hope that someday one of our kids will want to continue the tradition of getting one each exciting place we go. I also hope that when I am old and grey I can look through the boxes and travel down memory lane, just like I would submerged in a scrapbook.
I have pencils from all 49 states that I have traveled to, every baseball stadium, all the national monuments we've been to, plenty from Columbus (like The Zoo, COSI, Franklin Park, etc.), I got a few in London and Paris, and even a 24 pack of baseball team pencils that my grandpa got me for Christmas in 1994.That same year, in the fourth grade my parents got me a set of "Meredith Stohrer Pencils". I kept one in the collection and used the rest. I will never forget the day that a boy in my class took my pencil then claimed to the teacher that is was his. I said to Mrs. Caw, "Please look at the pencil, my name is engraved in it. I know it's mine!". She did and he had to give it back! Normally it would be a silly story but it was test taking time and I was getting yelled at for not having a pencil out on the table and being "ready to go".
I collected the "Rock Pencils" for as long as I could find them... AZ, TX, OH, UT, VA and more!
Family and friends have also brought me back ones from their vacations. Here are my smallest and largest ones; Barbados and Japan!
I remember the first time I found a wooden pencil! I was so excited! It is rare to find one with any text. Thank you Missouri!
Just this past year when Tommy and I stopped through Seattle to visit my friend Chantelle I got a second one from the Space Needle. They are different styles and I have been there twice! :)
I have a two boxes that I keep them in. One with all the "standard sizes" and one with all the over-sized ones or ones with toppers. When I was really little it was fun to pick out the largest craziest pencil I could find. I love the creativity behind the design of some of them. I have a yellow pencil with a skillet and sunny side up egg on top, one that is shapped like a red heart with a little stem on top to make it look like an apple, a light bulb topper and a plastic container shaped like a pencil that says Chicago. Inside of the container I keep all the pencils I got from all our site seeing in the Windy City.
Over the years I have had so much fun collecting them. I hope that someday one of our kids will want to continue the tradition of getting one each exciting place we go. I also hope that when I am old and grey I can look through the boxes and travel down memory lane, just like I would submerged in a scrapbook.
How interesting!! I’m glad that I was able to see all the fun pictures, too!! -Valerie
ReplyDeleteI did not know you collected all those pencils. I knew you and your folks would buy magnets as souvenirs, but I think the pencil ideas is a really cute (and inexpensive) idea. Keep having fun collecting!
ReplyDeletei love it!! it was SO fun to visit the space needle for the first time and see the both of you as well <3 and it was very interesting to find out that you had a collection of pencils :)
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