Do you like to bring back all sorts of souvenirs from your trips? It’s just a bit of a pity to bury them in a drawer later…. Here are some creative ideas for displaying and storing holiday souvenirs!
Souvenirs brought back from a holiday no longer have to linger at the bottom of a drawer or cardboard box with unnecessary trinkets. After all, these items bring back so many beautiful memories and positive emotions. Every time we see them, they remind us of the blissful and joyful holiday time…. That’s why it’s worth keeping them in view! Let’s revisit the good memories as often as possible!
Where to keep your holiday souvenirs
Become a collector!
Want to tame the souvenirs you bring back from your trips? Are you lacking ideas for storing your holiday souvenirs? Creating coherent collections will be most helpful in keeping your holiday souvenirs in order. First: so buy them wisely! If your purchase is well thought out, finding ideas for its use will not cause you a headache. Bring back from each trip only items of one specific, pre-selected category. These could be, for example, fridge magnets (or to be placed on a magnetic world map), postcards, souvenir coins, mugs, dolls in regional costumes. A properly displayed collection will look really great!
Magnets – popular travel souvenirs
Practical souvenirs from trips
The most effective way to reduce the number of trinkets is…. not buying them at all!
Holiday souvenirs at the stall
Here, as part of your holiday souvenirs, you can purchase a variety of beautiful yet functional items or decorative handicrafts to match your home’s interior design, e.g. napkins, candle holders, ceramics, cutlery.
Ways to store your holiday souvenirs
Are you unconvinced by the above ideas, because you like the typical souvenir trinkets and finding them at stalls and souvenir shops brings you joy? Or maybe you ask yourself: “That’s all great…. but what do I do with the souvenirs I already have at home!”. So we suggest what to do with your traditional and diverse collection of keepsakes!
How about making homemade decorations from your holiday memorabilia?
What if we stopped thinking about how to store them and thought about how to display them? You can successfully use your holiday souvenirs to create DIY home decorations! Here are some interesting, creative ideas for storing them.
Holiday souvenir decoration
Souvenir album
A souvenir album doesn’t have to be just for storing photos! It is worth putting other types of memorabilia in it as well. You can put tickets, receipts, dried flowers or even small, flat souvenir goodies in the album.
Collage in a frame
Instead of hiding your souvenirs in an album, you can make a holiday collage of your memories of the trip and put it in a frame or glass case. This collage can include photos of your trip, postcards, tickets to tourist attractions, airline tickets, seashells, dried flowers. It will certainly make a beautiful and original wall decoration.
Storing holiday souvenirs – a box of memories
This type of storage is a bit like collecting souvenirs at the bottom of a drawer or in a cardboard box? Nothing could be further from the truth. The memory box is already designed to organise our goodies. You can choose a model equipped with functional compartments or place your keepsakes in elegant fabric bags. Any organised collection will look great in such a beautiful setting, and the box itself can also be a decoration. This is well known as a method of storing childhood memorabilia. Instead of the toddler’s treasures, the decorative box can be used to place all sorts of goodies that bring back memories of the holiday.
Souvenir box with printed flowers
Souvenirs in a jar – a jar of memories?
Another idea is an interesting variation on the theme of a memory box. Instead of a box, we use a bottle or glass jar to create a decorative composition of holiday souvenirs in it. The transparent walls of the vessel allow it to be displayed on a shelf. An original idea is to “enclose in a jar” a particular place (by placing in it, for example, sand, water and local air)
Original souvenir from a holiday in Sweden: Jar with local sand and…. air!
You can create a jar like this on every trip or add souvenirs from subsequent trips to it. In such a jar you can collect e.g. sand, shells, small figurines, stones brought back from holidays (it is worth writing on them with a waterproof marker the date and the name of the place from which they were brought). Creating such a collection costs practically nothing and the end result looks really great.
Handmade from holiday souvenirs
What to keep the seashells in? You can use the seashells, pebbles, etc. you collected on your trip for a variety of DIY projects! This will make your home decorations evoke wonderful holiday memories! By choosing these kinds of souvenirs you will save triple – you won’t spend money on the souvenirs themselves, you will save money on the materials for your handicrafts and, of course, on the home decorations themselves!
Not sure what to keep your seashells in? Crafts are a great way to store your holiday souvenirs
DIY pot cover – home decor from tin and shells (zero waste)
