Finisher Medals

We have a bit of a finisher medal situation at our place... in that we're running out of room for them.  Actually, for a long time I kept only the "important" ones and discarded the rest.  But I recently got over myself and now I keep them all.  Jason races often enough that I could see him being selective with his medals... but me?  Anway, we wanted to clean them up and get organized, but keep them as souvenirs and reminders of all this fun stuff we do.
You can probably guess which trophy shelf belongs to each of us...

Jason wearing all his medals.

I had an idea to collate them all, photo album style.  We bought some photo album inserts and binders, took all the medals, and placed each one into a pocket on the inserts.  Worked perfectly - the medals are nice and visible (I put labels on the backs of ones that didn't have dates), organized, and out of the way.  It will be easy to look through when we want to, but they're not cluttering up the guest room.
Putting them all together.
That's my final off-seaon project completed!  Time to start the real training of 2013.
on

8 comments:

  1. donnaJanuary 6, 2013 at 4:09 PM

    Nice....my guess is that your trophy shelf is the one with the beer on it :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. AlisonJanuary 6, 2013 at 4:23 PM

    Good guess! Although I must admit Jason has a couple as well... and even better some wine from Vineman. But at least they've been emptied - we're not crazy enough to not drink them! :)

    ReplyDelete
  3. solarpoweredJanuary 6, 2013 at 4:49 PM

    Great idea! I did the same sort of thing for all my sister's race bibs -- and then liked it so much I made one for myself. I'll show it in a blog post this week.

    ReplyDelete
  4. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 8:13 PM

    I couldn't decide what to do with them, either. i felt dumb keeping them all. So, I just loaded them in a box. But, it doesn't feel as exciting.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Nathan VeldhoenJanuary 9, 2013 at 10:56 PM

    Keeps it all together and clean...very smart, love it.

    ReplyDelete
  6. HeidiJanuary 10, 2013 at 8:50 PM

    Great idea Alison!

    ReplyDelete
  7. girl on a little islandJanuary 11, 2013 at 10:05 PM

    Natasha will be so disappointed.... she believes that sleeping in there the night before an event is lucky!

    ReplyDelete
  8. AlisonJanuary 11, 2013 at 10:19 PM

    Tell her not to worry... the medals are all still in the room, just tidy! And if she needs me to get them out and hang them up for her, I will!

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)