It’s always interesting when our writers blog about Significant Objects, because they give us new insights about our own project. And sometimes it also gives a little look behind the scenes on any given writer-object relationship. It so happens that several of our writers with items in our store blogged about the project last week. (Actually, it seems that traffic from contributor Meg Cabot’s blog, along with traffic from the Slate contest and possibly this Huffington Post mention of our new Six-Word Contest, combined to cause us some server trouble. If you’ve had trouble accessing the site in the last few days, that’s why.)

My favorite post headline: “I’m On eBay Selling Something Hideous.” That would be Merrill Markoe, who has given Significance to a Flip Flop Frame. Check out her blog to read why she agreed to play along (partial answer: “I am a sucker for stuff that sounds art schooly.”

My other favorite post headline: “Artifact casts doubt on God’s homophobia.” That’s Maud Newton, referring to the Significance she discovered in a Cracker Barrel Ornament.

Meg Cabot posted about the project and regarding the particular object she ended up writing about, reveals: “The minute I saw this one, the story behind it hit me RIGHT AWAY. I was like, ‘I HATE THIS THING, and THIS IS WHY. This thing hurt a girl a LOT.’ And the whole story just came to me. That poor, poor girl.” The Wooden Animal + Meg Cabot Story auction ends tomorrow.

And finally: Kathryn Borel Jr. started to quote us describing our project, but then skipped our verbiage and summed it up this way: “Little objects embiggened by tales and lore.” Well said. Her embiggening of a Swiss Medal is here.