My favorite collage box, is the one that holds all of our tassels. We get these great tassels for graduating, but its hard to find what to do with them. We did not really need a million pictures of us with our tassels hanging off of them hanging around the house. Plus, my husband and I are really proud of our educations and what those tassels represent. They meant too much to us to throw away or put in a box. My husband holds two Bachelor's degrees, one in Philosophy and one in Biology. he also has a Master's degree in Biology. I have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, and see that empty space to the right, well that is going to hold the tassel to my Master's degree in Environmental Science this summer-Stay tuned!
To make the box, I purchased a shallow memory box from Joann's for about $10.00. I covered the back of the board with scrap-booking paper. Because the tassels are so colorful, I wanted a neutral paper that while it would make a great accent would not stand out too much. The black and white letters are a fun play for education. I tried to hang the gold bars of each tassel at the same height, but since they are all slightly different sizes it make it kind of hard. (The matching tassels for 2004 and 2006 are because my husband and I went to the same undergraduate college.)
I picked up the box at Joann's for about $9. It was an accidental purchase. I had meant to get a bigger box for a different collage. I then picked items that I thought fit well together and
told the story of the day. I included a couple of the ticket stubs so it would
say the date we went. I also put in two pictures that we took on the day to let
people know that we had gone and it was not just a shrine to San Francisco. I
used sticky baked Velcro tape to make the pieces stick to the board, and then
used double sided tape to layer the pictures over each other. To get the nice
map in the background, I refolded a tourist map of the places where we had
gone, so it stood out more.
So really this whole post is just about how fun it’s been to
find ways to make decorating our home personal. I like having the boxes up
because it’s entertaining to explain them to people and when I see them I get
to remember all the great memories that we had.