27 February 2010

Kitchen Notice boards and the strange things they attract

Our Kitchen Notice board 8 December 2009 – What a Random Collection?
 We moved house on 10th December 2009 and one of the last things I did was pull off the contents of the two Ikea notice boards and throw them into a canvas bag. I was investigating the contents of that bag today as I knew it contained an assortment of stuff and thought I might find my missing diary in there. I didn’t find that but what I did find was the following…
 5 Russian Items
  • 100 rouble note
  • No smoking sign
  • A postcard of St Petersburg
  • Another “propaganda” style postcard
  • A brochure from the submarine restaurant in St Petersburg 
  • 6 Photographs
  • A photograph of my nephew from 2003
  • 3 successive photographs of my niece and nephew sent as a thank you for Christmas presents.
  • A photograph of my niece in primary one
  • A photograph of the sail of my dad’s boat taken on a trip to Knoydart.

5 Tickets
  • Concert at Glasgow Green with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Eminem and others
  • T in the Park 2004
  • T in the Park 2005
  • Red Hot Chilli Peppers at Hampden 2008
  • A ticket to Alwnick Gardens in Northumberland

1 postcard from Milan
1 school computer drawing when youngest daughter was in primary school.

I was wondering what on earth this all means and I am struggling to make sense of it. I wonder if other people have such a collection of random items on their notice boards? Why not take a picture of your notice board and send me the link. I think it might suggest that I collect ephemera for scrapping without even consciously thinking about it. What does it say about me? I like to travel. I enjoy looking at photos of family members. I enjoy going to music concerts. I sometimes hold onto pictures created by my children. I must turn this into a scrapbook page – but there is so much stuff. Do I photograph each item? Create a double page LO collage or…

3 comments:

  1. Interesting collection of notice board items Looking at my notice board its also strange lol

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  2. LOL what a collection - my board in my craftroom is a bit like that! Some photos and work from DD at school, plus some gems, instructions and my promarker colour chart!

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  3. Have you seen Junque Journals??? They are fabulous projects for people who collect ephemera like this :) I love what you did with your noticeboard, but a Junque Journal would be another project idea!!! There are YouTube videos about them!!

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