Do you collect tokens to remember your travels when you embark on your adventures? I absolutely do! So if you do too, how do you store them once you get home? Do you put them away in a drawer or have you found a way to display them so you can look at them often? I think I've found a great way to display some of that memorabilia.
When I travel I tend to collect a lot of 'stuff' on my journey. Anywhere we visit I keep the tickets, and I usually pick up the brochures and maybe even a postcard or coaster and I store them in individual clear containers (or folders for smaller trips) that are labelled and stored in my spare/craft room.
This is a great system if I'm looking at a specific holiday and want to pull the container out to reminisce or look for some specific information, but it's not a subtle reminder of the great memories that were made that I can look at often.
I was scrolling through Facebook this week when a shadowbox idea came up. The idea was that when you travel you put your tickets etc. into the shadow box and display it. I thought this was a great idea so off I headed to Kmart to grab a shadow box and see what I could come up with.
I used my Cricut to add the writing and picture to the front of the glass and added a coloured piece of card to the back. Then I placed a few items from our Tasmania trip last year and our recent Fiji trip to the box (I've written the holidays on the back with the date so I know what's in there). I will add to it each time we travel. It's in my entrance so when I walk past I can see it.
I'm pretty happy with this new way to store my holiday keepsakes, now I just need to decide if I go back and do this for my past holidays or just start from here.
