I really think that we are blessed to have this addiction. How sad for those people that don't have this passion, and miss "seeing" things the way we do!
I was once putting the dental bib on a male patient, making small talk before his cleaning, when, all of a sudden I realized the I really "needed" to have his shirt for a quilt, and before I knew it, I had said it out loud. Poor man thought I was crazy.