What to do with pins if not trading/wearing?

[jpeka65844]

DH and I don't wear lanyards or trade pins but when we go to WDW, we have an incredible urge to buy them! We have a resolution that we're going to buy a pin from every year we go AND every resort we stay at......

What are some display ideas if we're not going to wear them?

BTW, I'm thinking of putting them on the strap of my messenger bag in Dec. I mean, they do deserve to be seen, right??



Denice T.
Olathe, KS

 

[DKH01701]

I collect several themes. For instance SSR. I have all the SSR pins on a Vacation Club lanyard. For now, they hang on the corners of pictures around the house. When I do my "Disney Room" they will be displayed in cases you can buy from the local trophy store. There are some very nice display cases for prize ribbons that you can pin the lanyards into, then hang on the wall. That's my plan, and I'm sticking to it.

 

[I'mNoPrince]

DD uses a pin bag so her pins don't get lost or damaged getting on and off the rides. When she gets home her keepers go on a Banner from MK. that hangs on the side of her bed.

If you are not trading and want to put them on your Messenger bag I suggest getting the locking backs. I use one for my I'mNoPrince pin I wear on my hat each day.

 

[UltimateWDWFan]

For displaying at home, I was given a WDW tapestry/throw, which hangs on the wall, and then the pins are scattered across it.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

DH chooses a few pins to put on the backpack, and uses locking backs so they don't get lost.

DS has a collector bag/portfolio thing for his keepers, but we might look into a bulletin board or something to hang in his room.

I just keep mine on different lanyards. Christmas lanyard, pirate lanyard, etc.

 

[cinderellacm2000]

We frame ours in decorated frames or shadow boxes and have created a really nice wall of pins display in our dining room. We also have an active "trade corner" board in our office as well as my pin bags and extra trade boards.

 

[disneygals]

My dd started pin collecting last summer. She took off the backs (saving them, of course) and put them on her bulletin board.

 

[DiRTyBuNNy]

I've got a pin bag for all of my pins. We pull them out to remember our trips.

--Mr. DB

 

[adabob]

I keep mine in a pin backpack and it is big enough that you can let other little things to put in it

 

[Lilnickyboy]

1. Cut out a peice of cardboard to a size where it could fit in a selected picture frame.​

2. Cover it with a material like velvet, cloth or anything else.​

3. Push pins through cardboard​

4. Insert your pins into desired frame.

​

You could have different frames for different trips and things like that. You could put the frames next to other disney memrobelia in house. Then evertime you see them, it will remind you of the magical times had at the world, and can brighten your day.​

 

[DiRTyBuNNy]

1. Cut out a peice of cardboard to a size where it could fit in a selected picture frame.​

2. Cover it with a material like velvet, cloth or anything else.​

3. Push pins through cardboard​

4. Insert your pins into desired frame.

​

You could have different frames for different trips and things like that. You could put the frames next to other disney memrobelia in house. Then evertime you see them, it will remind you of the magical times had at the world, and can brighten your day.​

Pretty slick..sounds like Lilnickyboy is our DIS Martha Stewart..hahahaa...

--Mr. DB

 

[Lilnickyboy]

Haha thanxxx.... i think????? I dunno even know how i thought of this idea. But u gata admit its a pretty good one

 

[Parkhopper]

We keep ours in a two room warehouse!
Suzi

 

[I'mNoPrince]

We keep ours in a two room warehouse!
Suzi

Been there Seen that

And she is not kidding OMG what a wonderful collection.

 

[GotGhosts]

I have mine in a frame, with 5 pins (I just started Pin Collecting).

 

[ellyn2000]

I just completed a "10 years in the making" vintage Disney bathroom! Along with all of my other memorabilia, I have shadow boxes with my favorite pins and other souveniers (3-D glasses from old Osborne lights, an unused fast pass, match book from CR, my first Disney dollar) It makes me smile every time I look at them and I don't even mind cleaning that bathroom anymore. And of course, all visitors to my home want to see the bathroom as soon as they arrive.

 

[NHMickey]

We frame ours in shadow boxes and have them hanging in our computer room.

 

[diznycrazed]

I do the shadow boxing as well. I have some old E tickets that I saved from when my parents took us to WDW when it first opened(a packrat even as a child), I have bought and/or traded for pins around the E ticket theme and have shadow boxed them. I do other theme framing as well. There are some beautiful matted pieces you can buy ie Haunted Mansion, Small World, Pirates. With these I have framed pins from those rides around the border. My most prized is the castmember Haunted Mansion 3D pin which I have framed on the exact HM matted picture. My DH is building an addition on our house and I'm finally going to get my Disney Room!

I have been collecting for a number of years so I had to start coming up with ideas for displaying my pins. Just having them in books was such a waste.

There's my two cents!
Terry

 

[disney_for_life]

I desplay my pins using a cork board and then i just hang the cork board up for all to see

 

[t-beri]

we have a friend w/ a frame shop who frames some of them for us. We have MK and Epcot pins framed along w/ door knockers(do not disturb signs) from the hotels on the monorail and a picture of the mono... we also have a tink pin framed w/ a tink sketch we got in DTD and a metal plate that says believe. DD's 2nd b-day is next month and we are going to have a pic of her trading her first pin matted and framed along w/ the pin she traded for (it was a tigger cuties, I was looking at a cm's lanyard and she pointed and said "tigder" I took it as an OBVIOUS sign she wanted to trade!!!)
Clearly you couldn't do this w/ all of your pins but maybe you could have a picture of you at WDW each year and have the pins framed w/ it. It has helped us start to fill the empty walls of our new house.
...t.