Wednesday, November 18, 2020

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~

6 comments:

  1. What fun and creative suggestions, Melinda!

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  2. I enjoyed reading through these ideas. I have some of my grandmother's baking tins, and have often thought I should do something with them. I used to subscribe to Country Living, and loved it! Maybe it's time to sign up again;)

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  3. Glad that you enjoyed.
    The magazine has changed over
    the years as they do but I still enjoy it,
    but then I am a magazine hound.

    M : )

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  4. Cute ideas! I've used fabric for matting pictures and love looking at it. Like the shadow box, too. Have a good week!

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  5. Glad you liked these ideas.
    Enjoy your week.

    M : )

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