Home shadowboxes

For a while now I've liked the look of projects like this one on Pinterest, and thought that I'd use this idea, combined with pictures of places my wife and I have lived to make some shadowboxes. 

So, during December we took a trip to Hobbycraft to pick up some supplies. We managed to get two white shadowboxes and some wooden numbers, as we already have a fair supply of crafty bits for projects like this one. We also decided that we'd use photos of the property and add in scrapbooking items like tickets or receipts from memorable events in our life from when we lived in that place. 

Here is a shot of halfway through the process of making one of the shadowboxes:

We simply used the piece of paper in the frame to stick our memorabilia items on, making use of almost anything we found in our memory boxes. The photo above shows the shadowbox for our apartment in Grenoble, and uses things like train tickets, our supermarket loyalty card and a take-away menu. We positioned these items around the edges of the paper, leaving enough room to put in a 6"x4" photo of the apartment in the middle. Then we placed wooden numbers and letters in the foreground of the shadowbox by sandwiching them between the glass and the wooden frame that holds the whole box together. I didn't feel the need to secure them any more than this as it seemed to work! Finally, I simply added the road name to the top of the photo using a Sharpie. 

And the final product looked like this:

Then the process was simply repeated for our home back in Kent, using the supplies we could find, including our key.

So there we have two shadowboxes, documenting the places we've lived and reminding us of some of the things that happened while we lived there. We intend to create one of these for each property we live in, and have already made a mental list of items we might like to include when we move out of our current apartment!