Making a Nostalgic Inspiration Board

My oldest left his cork bulletin board here when he moved out. It's been sitting in the garage for...oh.. a few years.

I had a piece of linen with embroidery in the corner that was my Grandmother's and thought it would cottagefy (is that a word?) it a bit. Only problem was it had a few holes and stains in it.

I thought Elmer's spray adhesive would be the easiest way to marry the two. I had some leftover from a previous project, a no brainer!

I sprayed the bulletin board with the adhesive. I was able to maneuver the linen so the holes and stains didn't show.

I folded the excess around the back and used a stapler to attach it

Grandma's sweet little embroidery work makes me smile.

I decided to flip the embroidery to the top corner so it was more visible.

Added my corsage from my son's wedding and a few other memento's given to me from my children.

Then out came my jewelry/beads/etc. tote and Mom's buttons.I embellished some tacks for interest and am also using a few special pin backs as push pins also.

I found a long strip of pink fabric that had been removed from an article of clothing, the entire length is covered in rhinestones.From Mom or Grandma ~I ''draped'' it as best as I could across the top.It's a continuous piece, I thought of cutting it so it could actually frame the board, but decided to leave it as found ~ as they had left it to be re-used at a later time.

It's now just about covered with photos and diagrams/images of future projects that have been swimming around in my head.

So glad I was able to reinvent one of my Grandma's pieces and save it even though it had some issues.

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