For that past year or so, I’ve been working on redecorating my house. I’ve already shared a couple of projects that I’ve been working on (if you missed them, check them out here and here). Which brings me to my next project… probably the one I am most in love with (so far!)
Two facts about me: (1.) I love frame collages. If I could get away with it, I would have a collage of frames on every wall in my house and (2) I am a bit of a pack rat. Old concert ticket stubs, plane tickets, notes… I keep them. All of them.
So… I recently decided to combine my collage obsession and pack-rat addiction. I spent hours going through all of my old (DUSTY) keepsakes, photos, ticket stubs, etc. until I narrowed down to my absolute favorite things. After multiple trips to Hobby Lobby (50% off frames…woot woot!) and nailing hundreds of holes in my poor wall, I now have an amazing display of all of my favorite memories. I can’t imagine a more perfect wall! Everything that I love most is on this wall, and I get to look at it every single day. I’m one happy girl. :-)
-Kaylinn
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(1.) Subway/plane ticket stubs from the trip to Europe that Jenn and I took in 2005 (2.) A note that my Mama wrote me when I left for a mission trip to Australia when I was 15. I carried the note around in my wallet for 15 years (holy moly I’m kind of OLD!) (3.) The actual house key to my first house (4.) A photo strip of me and my best friend Margaux in high school. We wore dark lip liner and huge hoop earrings… gotta love the 90s! (5. and 6.) When I was 9, my grandma made poodle skirts for me and my 2 cousins for Christmas (because my Grandma is awesome!) Number 5 is the poodle from the actual pattern that she used and number 6 is a photo of us modeling our fab skirts. I’m the one on the far left with the bee-yoo-tee-ful mullet haircut (thanks, Mom). (7.) A poster from a John Mayer concert that Jenn and I went to in 2010. Love John Mayer! (the music, not the personality. Ha!)
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(1.) The CD sleeve of my favorite album as a teenager. Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill.” Because 90s grunge music was (and still is) awesome, I don’t care what anyone says. Ha! (2.) A ceramic cameo that Jenn bought me for my 30th b-day. I love this cameo so much, it actually made me feel better about turning the big 3-0. (2.) One of my favorite paintings by Picasso. Oh, how I love Picasso and his weird art. :-)
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The card that Jenn gave me on her wedding day. I was her maid of honor. :-)
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A close up of the ticket stubs from our trip to Europe in ’05. Along with a photo of us in front of the London Eye. Random tangent: My hair was red back then. I’ve been thinking of switching back… thoughts?
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The Beatles’ “Let It Be” is my all-time favorite song. I even named my dog “Libby” because it sounded like “Let It Be” if you say it reeeeally fast. Sort of. Ehh, I know it’s a stretch… but I named her Libby anyway. Anyhoo, I had no idea that my Dad had this little gem packed away in the closet… the actual “Let It Be” record. I was kiiiiind of excited. So I snuck it out of my parents’ house. I got my Mom’s permission… but my Dad has no idea that I swiped it… fingers crossed he does not read this because he would surely steal this back from me.
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That’s not Instagram, ladies and gentlemen. It’s an actual Polaroid from 1994 of me and 3 of my BFFs to this day! (Summer, Jenn, Kim and me). I rocked that dark lip liner like nobody’s business!
