Postcard storage

When I'm out at thrift stores, I'm always on the lookout for studio storage. Among my favorite finds are vintage wood racks that were originally used to hold 8-track and cassette tapes, CDs, etc. They come in many shapes and sizes, from large racks, to smaller, more narrow racks. I have use for all of them. The slots work well for holding all sorts of ephemera or crafting supplies. I love them for holding many items I use for artwork or sell in my etsy shop. I can see my bingo cards at a…

As you may remember from my recent post about my New Year’s resolution for 2018, my goal this year is to fill my new recipe box with all of my favorite recipes. I stocked myself up on recipe cards thanks to Rifle Paper Co., but I was having a really hard time finding some stylin’ recipe box dividers. Then I remembered my collection of vintage-style postcards… I like to pick up cool looking postcards whenever I’m traveling somewhere, and I snatched up a ton of these at Yellowstone and Arches…

I seem to have an endless supply of Postcards. When ever I go travelling or to a Museum, I always end up buying what feels like thousands of postcards. However, the majority of them end up in a dra…

When your collection of postcards (or photos) reaches a certain size, you need to think about how to store, protect, and display them safely and creatively.

Almost four years ago, I wrote a blog post about my lifelong postcard collection . A few weeks afterwards, I organized my postcards into a...

I love ring binders, especially these tiny ones that I have made for myself! Last week I posted a video tutorial on how you can make a custom-sized ring binder too, using a vintage book cover. I'm sure you can come up with lots of fun things to add into yours, like loose leaf journaling,

BCW offers sleeves, toploaders, boxes, and other products to protect postcard collections.

An archive and overview of Ellen Golla’s paper mosaic collages and artist’s books.

When I started becoming interested in collecting postcards again, I knew I needed to get them organised, and the collection had outgrown the boxes it was in. This was a good excuse to get my DVD collection organised first, and repurpose some of the DVD boxes which were a perfect size for all but the biggest postcards. I separated the postcards into two boxes, one for places and the other for everything else. I then set about making some dividers from white card. It turned out that I needed a…