Showing posts with label collections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collections. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Decorating with a Vintage Collection

I started collecting souvenir spoons a long time ago.That makes them vintage, right?Friends would give them to me as souvenirs from the wonderful trips they went on. I was jealous appreciated them. At one time I had 2 large racks in my kitchen and a map of the USA in the hall. (It was almost filled with spoons from each state - not that I've been to all of them yet.) When we moved 5 years ago, I gave away the spoon racks and have just displayed dumped the spoons in this basket.


 












When I started decorating my craft room in European Flair ~ sounds fancy, doesn't it ~ I remembered my spoons. Now I needed a rack to display them. I hope you know that you can find anything at Goodwill if you're willing to wait. This is what I found. (I forgot to take a before picture, but I dry brushed it to give it a more aged look.)







I went through my collection and found 24 spoons from European countries.  My favorite is the Eiffel Tower.

Do any of you have a collection like this? How do you display yours?