When my kids were little, I always baked and decorated their yearly Birthday Cakes. Choosing different styles for each of them as their interests changed. This is where my collecting started and how it grew. Within a few years, I started to hang the Character Pans on the wall in the kitchen ... to keep them from being bent or scratched in a cabinet. Then, as time passed and my collection grew ... I decided they looked so " blah " just hanging on the wall (all silver) and started handpainting ...