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mistressofmuses) wrote2023-08-29 08:41 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2023-08-29 08:41 pm
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Two pin boards:
One of the very few things I really collect is... enamel pins. (Insert joke about pins being stickers for people who can't commit.) Yet... even with the reusable nature of pins, I never want to actually put them on anything, because the risk of losing them or damaging them.
It was actually a goal of mine from the beginning of the year to get them displayed somehow, because collecting them just to have them sit in tupperware tubs on the shelf isn't what I want either, even if they're "safe" there.
I wanted to just use fabric over bulletin board material, but the handful of times we looked for bulletin boards they were unexpectedly expensive. (Shadowboxes have been recommended to me a lot, but as nice as that can look, those were even more expensive, and I didn't want to make my own.) But, with back to school stuff, there were surprisingly cheap boards at the local grocery store!
My pins for the Fifteen Fears from The Magnus Archives.
[Left to right, top to bottom: The Stranger, The Eye, The Spiral, The Hunt, The Slaughter, The Flesh, The Corruption, The Web, The Lonely, The Vast, The Dark, The Buried, The Extinction, The Desolation, The End.]
This one was actually made with foam board, which was even cheaper than the bulletin boards. It's covered with fabric from a purple shirt I really liked, but that tore and had gotten too thin to be worth attempting to fix. I didn't get the fabric completely flat on the board when I glued it, but it's better than not displaying them at all, so I'll take it.
Some more miscellaneous pins. Almost all of these are by Greer Stothers, though the bee is Maya Kern. I like all of them, but I especially like the insect pins on specimen cards (including the bone fairy with the faintly-visible blood spatter). The cave art and ice mummy tattoo ones appeal very much to me as an archeology major. The three to the bottom right are "memento mori" coins for recently-extinct or near-extinct species.
This is one of the cheap bulletin boards, plus some flannel fabric I bought.
I want to put at least two more boards together: one for the other various pins I have (which are slightly more mythology, art, or just miscellaneous themed), and one for all the Mohaine National Park pins (the "weirddeer" pins) from my friends' kickstarter.
Considering how long it took me to do two, maybe I'll get the other two done by this time next year. :P
It was actually a goal of mine from the beginning of the year to get them displayed somehow, because collecting them just to have them sit in tupperware tubs on the shelf isn't what I want either, even if they're "safe" there.
I wanted to just use fabric over bulletin board material, but the handful of times we looked for bulletin boards they were unexpectedly expensive. (Shadowboxes have been recommended to me a lot, but as nice as that can look, those were even more expensive, and I didn't want to make my own.) But, with back to school stuff, there were surprisingly cheap boards at the local grocery store!
My pins for the Fifteen Fears from The Magnus Archives.
[Left to right, top to bottom: The Stranger, The Eye, The Spiral, The Hunt, The Slaughter, The Flesh, The Corruption, The Web, The Lonely, The Vast, The Dark, The Buried, The Extinction, The Desolation, The End.]
This one was actually made with foam board, which was even cheaper than the bulletin boards. It's covered with fabric from a purple shirt I really liked, but that tore and had gotten too thin to be worth attempting to fix. I didn't get the fabric completely flat on the board when I glued it, but it's better than not displaying them at all, so I'll take it.
Some more miscellaneous pins. Almost all of these are by Greer Stothers, though the bee is Maya Kern. I like all of them, but I especially like the insect pins on specimen cards (including the bone fairy with the faintly-visible blood spatter). The cave art and ice mummy tattoo ones appeal very much to me as an archeology major. The three to the bottom right are "memento mori" coins for recently-extinct or near-extinct species.
This is one of the cheap bulletin boards, plus some flannel fabric I bought.
I want to put at least two more boards together: one for the other various pins I have (which are slightly more mythology, art, or just miscellaneous themed), and one for all the Mohaine National Park pins (the "weirddeer" pins) from my friends' kickstarter.
Considering how long it took me to do two, maybe I'll get the other two done by this time next year. :P
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I've displayed mine on fabric before, but always had the issue of the fabric eventually curling under at the edges and not laying flat. The hoops would address that issue well!