How you Should be Styling your Shadow Box

Negative: Too many shoe boxes in the closet

Positive: Lots of Memories

If you’re anything like my family, you keep EVERYTHING that’s sentimental to you. I’m talking about little league jerseys from the 80s, every birthday card, and thank you note. Just in a few short years, I’ve accumulated three shoeboxes full of memories with my fiancé. I needed to start damage control, stat!

 

 

 

I limited my “KEEP” pile to things we have done together that tell a story. So movie night tickets: OUT! Car rental receipts: OUT! I challenge you to do the same and see what you find!

My “OUT” pile

 

From my “KEEP” pile I displayed every ticket stub, photo, and souvenir in one memory box. Although this is one way to style a memory box, only a few of my items were especially important.

 

 

Ultimately I chose a few major events: life before we started dating, how we met, birthdays, holidays, and our engagement.

 

 

How you Should be Styling your Shadow Box:

1.       Use sewing pins to keep your tokens from moving.

2.      Display personal affections in the bedroom: wedding vows, love notes, baby’s sonogram.

Display items that share a story in common areas of the home: plane tickets, postcards, awards.

 

3.    Layer larger pieces in the back: maps, certificates, newspaper clippings, and smaller pieces in the front: ticket stubs, photos, event programs.

4.   Consider buying more than one shadow box if you have quite a few artifacts to display. Each display case can be used for a different purpose: a progression of your relationship, a box for each child, a box for each type of sporting event you attend.

 

 Take a trip down memory lane. Surprised by something you found? Share it with me!