How to Display Souvenir Spoons
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*Examine your Souvenir Spoon Collection for Hidden Treasure
Before you jump to transforming any spoons or putting them in harm's way, sort through the collection to look for any that might be valuable. Rather than use those, pack them away if they have value. Those should be preserved or sold. What you're looking for are spoons that are highly decorative but have little value. (Those spoons make up the bulk of any souvenir spoon collection.)
After you've removed spoons of value, sort the spoons into two piles--those that are more interesting at the top and those that are more interesting at the bottom. While you may use a mixture of both for some projects, a few projects will utilize the best of each. - 2). *Place spoons in interesting locations
Rather than use the spoon racks every kid made in shop class years ago, display the spoons in unusual ways that no one would expect.
Make a unique centerpiece with travel spoons by finding a unique container such as a souvenir coffee mug (or grouping of coffee mugs) or a flower pot and fill the bottom with floral foam. Stick spoons in at different heights. Add floral moss if needed to cover foam. If you like, take one giant serving spoon and stick it in the middle of the foam, handle down, as a central focus. Tie a ribbon around the top of the spoon.
Use gorilla glue to glue spoons to cabinet hardware and make unique handles and knobs for cabinets.
Buy a shadow box coffee table and place spoons in your table as a display. You could add maps (highlighted with places you've gone) and other souvenirs as well.
Glue backs of spoons to long strips of ribbon. Hang ribbons on wall--secure on the wall at a few points so that ribbon doesn't flip and turn.
Purchase picture rails or mini cantilever or "ledge" shelving. Placing the shelves higher than eye level, add strips of spray painted floral foam (same color as shelf) along the back of the ledge. Stick spoon bottoms in foam in a row, being certain to make sure that spoons are all the same height for a linear display.
Purchase shadow box frames and tack spoons in various combinations inside. - 3
*Transform your Souvenir Spoons into interesting Recycled Art
Using spoons that have an open arch or circle at the top, twist thin wire to make a hook and attach to a shabby light fixture. If desired, spray paint the entire spoon white first.
Get a clear glass ginger jar lamp from a craft store. Place a core of styrofoam in the center of the lamp, and fill in the sides with travel spoons.
Take three spoons, bunch them together, tie with decorative ribbon and add an ornament hook for unique Christmas ornaments--these can be given to family members who have memories of those specific trips
Glue spoons to the outside of decorative vases, galvanized buckets, and the inside of decorative bowls for a low display.
Paint a canvas a solid color and glue spoons in measured increments over the canvas to create a "grid" of spoons as decorative art.
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