Since it's Escapes month here at AT and we have yet to get away, we've been thinking a lot about the keepsakes brought back from past trips. We display mementos throughout our house, like on the vintage industrial shoe rack shown above. What about you?
A September 2007 NY Times "Room to Improve" column offered these suggestions:
- Display photos, stationery, maps, business cards and ticket stubs in "small, similar-looking frames, which allows you to create a pattern of photographs and printed items across a single wall."
- Take your paper souvenirs and découpage an object.
- "If you have a mishmash of three-dimensional items like plastic statuettes and snow globes, the best way to create visual impact is to group many examples of one type of object — like vases or masks — or items with similar colors or textures. Display them in a cluster on a tray, table or shelf. The more pieces you add, the bigger the statement."
I don't like to have a lot of tchotchkes, so I don't buy a lot of keepsakes when I'm traveling. I do, however, buy one small Christmas ornament (or something I can use as a Christmas ornament) that is easily identifiable as coming from the location where I was traveling. And then I hang them all on the Christmas tree each Christmas. It's a once a year travel display, and they don't take up much room when I store them for the rest of the year.
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We buy a box wherever we go. It can be a small wooden box, or a tin box, or a bowl of some kind - I think the rule is, it must store things and have a lid. Otherwise, it's kind of loose.
They are easy to incorporate into our space and double as a place to hide things. We got our favourite one last winter in Mexico, an old little trunk.
http://theserovingeyes.blogspot.com/2008/01/so-its-that-time-of-year.html
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I do this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allabouteve/2678857480/
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I see that Harry Potter has decided to end it all.
It must be hard now that his career is over :(
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JenS64- I do the same thing.
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Since I usually buy some sort of craft or vintage brooch (or two). I wear them -- one at a time -- on the lapel of my jacket. It's a rotating display.
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We usually pick up a cheap replica of a landmark from where ever we are. Our collection is growing and some are really beautiful miniatures, and some are gawdy and tacky. BUT it's our little collection to remind us of our travels.
I like the idea of buying a box! I love little boxes!!
HMMMmm...
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I keep things in shoe boxes, labled, and in a corner. One day I will decorate the boxes better, but for now it keeps. I also tend to buy at least one item for proper display: A pen and ink sketch from Prague, a rather large football flag from London etc.
My harder task was how to display my love of theatre without having to put up window cards. So instead I bought a huge (2 foot by 6 foot) old framed print from the 40s, the print was hideous, but the frame was beautiful, so now I paste the ticket stub from every show I've ever seen on it (I think this idea would work great with ticket stubs from flights and trains for travel).
I have about 2/3 covered. I am a bit concerned about what to do when that runs out....
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