Things of the Past

 

Hello! Hope everyone is having an awesome 

Wednesday!

I ran across an interesting article on Family 

Heirlooms in one of my Country Living 

Magazines.

The article was titled "12 Ideas For Family 

Heirlooms."

With most of us hanging at home and cleaning 

our areas of "clutter," maybe you have ran across 

things that you are not ready to give up yet.

Here are some of the ideas:

1. Turn pins or brooches into napkin rings by 

looping thread through the bar pin then tie 

around your napkins.

2. Use old silver coasters as Placecards.

Paint part of the coaster with chalk paint. 

Write names with erasable chalk markers.

3. Arrange old photos in a "Family Tree" in a 

shadow box. Draw a simple tree shape on 

watercolor paper, cut the paper to size of your 

box frame. Paint the tree with watercolor paints.

Add mini clothespins with hot glue then clip pics 

on the pins.

4. Display odds and ends in a Cloche.

They could be person specific too.

5. Turn baking tins into frames for recipes.

Print out old favorites, cut card stock to fit 

your pan or tin. Glue to the inside of tin then 

glue your recipes inside of the pan or tin. 

Hang up using adhesive strips. These could 

be pie pans or tart tins.

Another use for old faves is mod podging 

recipes to the outside of a wooden recipe 

box. A recipe could also be put inside the lid. 

Make copies of the recipes unless they aren't 

meaningful to you.

6. If you have a torn or stained quilt that you 

can't part with, choose the "good" areas to 

stretch over canvas for wall hangings.

So, as you are "going through things" maybe 

some of these will work for you.

~Keep on Dreaming~