Thank you Thank you
Jessica Peterson for writing about the book
Dirty Wow Wow. I picked it up at the library this week, though because of your post I already had great plans laid for some catalog creating of my own. The photography is stunning in that book. Definitely large format (or at least Tilt/Shift Lens, but I hope beyond hope that it is true film, large format, because that would be lovely).
So, here is my own slant. There are a few things I own that I would be sad if lost. Things that I can tell people what they MEAN, and therefore why I have them around.... and then there is the other stuff, like what type of perfume I use, or what soap. I read a book once where a child who had lost her mother became very attached to a teacher who SMELLED just like her mother, used the same creme or something... so if I die tomorrow (lets hope not), I want my children to know my soap, and also about these other things that will become treasures to them because they were mine.
i know i own a lot of earrings, and i'm sure they'll be passed on down. but these are my favorite. one of them is about dead, the needle part is breaking in two. 
this is the box i kept T's ring in when we got married. i bought it in a little shop in bloomington, indiana with my friend liz wepler. its handcarved (see how the lid screws onto the top? Talk about craftsmanship!) and was like $8. I still love it, keep MY ring in it when i'm too swollen and pregnant to wear it.
my grandmother's brooch. i had never seen this until my uncle gave it to me when she died. it was handpainted on ivory in the 50's by one of her sister's-in-law (my grandfather's brother's wife. geez. sister's cousin's friend's dog's...hehe) She had the necklace part added on later. I wear this often. 
my wedding ring. my mother lost hers in the ocean in california. i always have wondered what it looked like. now, just in case, my kids will at least know what mine looked like.
