Crap to treasures, volume 2
On my sleepless nights I used to read wiki pages until I passed out. These days I check out sites like Uncrate, Supermarket, Etsy, and Ebay. Sometimes you find things like old cameras or old keys or old pocket watches. I think they’re neat. Displaying them in some sort of interesting fashion and not ending up as some crazy collector packrat is the challenge. So, we go back to my old standby: making cheap frames. And lots of them.
[Vintage keys mounted to transparent paper and a handwritten page]
I really like old stuff like this because I know it used to be some mundane part of someones life. It’s not mundane to me because you don’t see everyday stuff this ornate anymore. Stuff these days is so cookie cutter and boring.
[Zippo lighter and old pocket knife]
On an interesting note on why I framed the lighter and knife. The lighter was given to me by my dad when I was 17 right before a trip to the grand canyon. I needed something to start my campfires and instead of getting me a Bic lighter or something, he got me this mini Zippo. For some reason I consider it to be one of my most prized possessions. If the house were on fire and I could only keep what I could carry, I’d try to get that out. It just seemed to mark a point where my dad finally trusted his kid (who destroys stuff all the time) with fire. And the pocket knife belonged to my grandparents I think. I just needed something more than a lighter in the box. The box is pine, the light colored wood is more 3/4 inch pine left unpainted. The lighter and knife are hot glued to a backerboard covered in some spare velvet that I had laying around.
There’s still more to add to the wall, but here it is so far:
There’s a pocket watch in a plywood frame. I’ll post a close-up sometime. The camera is an old Kodak camera. I have 3 of those, 3 Kodak Pony cameras, and 3 Polaroid Land Cameras.
I hope you start putting up your stuff or finding someone else’s old junk and putting it on display in your place.
oh! i love the keys!