Saturday, February 25, 2012

Peg Board Fun...

For quite a few years now I have been wanting to have a nice postcard rack to display all those fun postcards in! Since I have not been able to find a suitable one here in the States, I thought I'd built my own one, out of peg board.

Peg board is usually used in the garage to hang your tools on, but I found a tiny mention in a magazine (I think it was 'Fresh Home') of someone using peg board to hang their cards on and I felt this was a project I could tackle.

Et voila, I not only made one, I made two! One with the more traditional Dutch cards and one with more vintage themed Pip Studio cards...




I bought some s-hooks and some fun little clamps and I was done. (about $20 in total) I will probably add some ribbons, flowers and other embellishments on them as well to make them look a bit less 'peg-boardy'...  <wink>

After all that was done I decided to finally use the fun vintage decals I got from Tif a while back. I added some to our Hoosier kitchen cabinet...



Yay, things are finally starting to come together!

PS We have wet snow coming down: what the...??!  

12 comments:

  1. Wat een geweldig leuk idee, die kaartenrekken! Zag ik daar Jip en Janneke tussen zitten? Zo schattig, Hollandser kan niet! Eh, sneeuw, dat meen je toch niet... bbrrrrr, sterkte!

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    1. Indeed! Ik had het me niet zo gerealiseerd maar ik heb een flinke verzameling J&J kaarten dus een paar moesten er zeker op de muur... :-)

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  2. Hellooo!
    Your blog header is looking really good :-0)
    LOVE your peg boards, you've done great!
    LOVE your cabinet, decals & dala häst
    Have a good weekend
    LOVE PEACE enJOY!
    Julie
    x
    lo

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    1. Ik wilde graag zo'n rek als jij hebt maar hier hebben ze alleen maar lelijke en nogal duur ook als je de verzendkosten er bij optelt...

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  4. How on earth did you do that? You've turned my cursor thingy into a flower!!! Too clever.

    Those decals look brilliant as do the peg boards.

    xxx

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  5. How nostalgic is that!? It reminds me of my Grandad.
    Annie

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  6. What a bright idea and what a good result!
    Kram, Monica

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  7. Ah wat een leuk idee joh! Ik denk dat ik dat qua klussen ook nog wel kan tackelen hahaha! En wat een leuke kaartjes heb je erop hangen!

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  8. Super leuke pinboards en het kastje is. Wat een prachtige kast en lief die roosjes.
    Kram

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  9. The Lady of Cow Road has been in action again and done some amazing things. You are so good at inventing lovely solutions. Great! I put most of my cards under the windowsills where there are a little space to tuck the cards in, I'll show it later on...
    Aggie kramar

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