Official Straw Collector

What is the name of the game? Pick Up Sticks? Does it not look like I am playing pick up sticks? I am not playing the game here but am showing off my collection. Only the bright magenta one is a stick from my son's stack and the rest are thin straws which are about half the size of the regular ones. I have collected them very lovingly for the past few months. Where do I get them you ask? Well everywhere. I sort of manifest them! No actually I find them in coffee shops and Trader Joes (where I sample their coffee) and some from my kids' juice boxes. Coffee straw collecting can be a hobby in itself you know.

I started collecting straws for my other hobby- making dolls. What does a straw have to do with cloth dolls? I use them to turn those tiny fingers inside out. I have so many straws that I might not be able to use them all even if I use a separate one for each of the fingers of my dolls.( I keep using only one of them over and over again anyway- the transparent one which came with the juice ) I just can't throw my straws away! Nor can I put them in a garage sale!! I can't stop collecting them either. So here I am ... still collecting. Here is a secret- at any given moment, I carry at least 4 of these thin straws in my purse. Yep! no more diapers or pacifiers and not even my daughter's little toys- only straws.