There are many things I have collected over the years that I let go of over the years, unicorns and cows are two that took up so much space in my life.  One thing that remained are pins, specifically lapel pins.  I don’t even know when I started collecting them but it may have started in the 80’s when my denim jacket was covered with button and lapel pins.  Sometime in the 90’s I started picking up the state shape pins that were sold in rest stops when I traveled.  After losing the majority of my pin collection in the house fire, I reevaluated did I want to restart this…