Matchbooks…
A while back Erika showed off one of her latest flea market finds.
She was lucky enough to find a huge book full of matchbooks and decided to do this with it:
Close up of matchbooks:
I was wandering all over Boston Public Library flickrs page from this mornings post and found this!
A whole section dedicated to matchbooks:
There are over 400 of them! If you have the time for a whole bunch of printing and patience to line them you up you can recreate Erika’s look for less.
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My living room is one of the rooms that evolved drastically from when we first moved one. Originally I painted the walls chocolate brown and did accents of white, blue and orange. That lasted maybe 2 years.
Our dining room sat empty for months. Okay maybe it was empty for just a handful of weeks and then we couldn’t take it anymore and put in a folding table and plastic outdoor chairs, but in my mind that was still empty.
On the main floor of our house we have a Florida room. Being that it’s a Florida room it is a considered a 3 season room, because there is no heat in the room. The previous owners used it as an indoor patio with outdoor furniture and it looked like this when we moved in.
Oh, this is lovely! I am inspired… but lack matchbooks. Although I have a ton of boarding passes. 🙂
Wow – what a great idea!! I love it! And that wall color is fab too!
Hmm… I have a collection of about 180 postcards. Maybe I could do something similar with them? I've been trying to figure out for years how to display them.
Very cool, this this idea
Tara should frame those postcards -maybe 2 to 3 per frame!
ps: I have a giveaway going on!
This looks great – can't wait to see what you do!
I bet Erika will be thrilled you remembered something like this from 2 years ago!
what a gorgeous wall! i love seeing interesting collections displayed.
i;m sure yours will be fab!
Wow, I love this idea…I just might have to copycat!
How cool what a find! These are so awesome!
What a wonderful display…enjoyed todays blog for sure! Very creative!
What an interesting idea! I love it.
Those are so neat! I've got a bunch of flick pages bookmarked with tons of vintage matchbook pics and I'm thinking of printing them and framing them on a gallery wall
Such a neat idea. I would have never would have thought of that. Thanks for posting
Wow…so creative!
i love this collection. thanks!
May be you guys would love this book then 🙂
http://www.tarabooks.com/books/books/adults/art–design–pop-culture/matchbook/
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Very cute idea! Tracey xx
what an awesome art idea! i just did a similar project with my sister's pin collection 🙂
My brother has collected matchbooks for years, I'll have to show him this. Unless, of course, he sold his collection to Erika… ha, ha