I am fairly (obsessively) sentimental. I am sure it is just who I am but I am 100% certain that it also comes from the fact that my kids have medical issues. I like to document, save, record and remember everything that has ever happened them and our family.
Both late walkers at around age 2 or 3 they spent a lot of time in pants. For starters, when you have pets and you don’t sweep and wash your floors regularly your kids who crawl can and will often look like they are always crawling in dirt. The evidence stays on their knees, hands and the tops of their feet/shoes. My kids’ pants often had worn out knee caps before their time and the amount of clothing we handed down were few and far between.
In order to preserve the memory of them working so hard to walk I decided to display a pair of pants that each of them had worn. My criteria…
1) They had to be pants they were extremely adorable in and it didn’t hurt if there was a unique story about acquiring them (the pants, not the kids).
2) They had to be pants they did something magnificent in, like learning how to walk.
3) They had to fit in thin shadow (medal) display frame.
In an effort to fill a blank hallway wall before a party (isn’t an annual party the best way to get things done around the house?) I wrote up a little ditty about each pair, put them in the frame (left the cotton that came in the frame) and placed the paper in them. I hung them next to their annual school pictures that we change out each year. 
It was, quite frankly, the easiest decorating I have ever done that garners the most oohs and ahhs. So go dig through the box of kiddo clothes, grab a 1/2 off coupon for frames somewhere, write down what they did in the clothing and hang. EZPZ!
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awesome idea!!
Thanks! My kids thought so too until i wanted to frame their cloth diaper covers! (which I didn’t end up doing).
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
That’s a brilliant idea! I have a tub of favorites that I kept (and were awfully adorable on my boys. Not that I am biased). Now I know what to do with them!
Twitter Name: thedgoddess
I want to see pictures when you’re done!
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
OMG, that is SOOO perfect! I worked at The Disney Store forever and a day ago but at the time it was a VERY important thing to me – important enough where I saved the blue and turquoise sweater, and the shorts that I had to wear. I always planned on displaying them but wasn’t sure how. You just solved my problem. THANK-YOU!
Twitter Name: sharonkurheg
Oh yay! Sounds like the perfect thing to frame! Then you can share all the stories about where you went in that outfit!
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
Beautiful idea. I have to say I am a little disappointed, because I really thought this blog was going to tell me how to make the four hampers of clean unfolded laundry in my living room look like home decor. No such luck. I guess I will have to go shove them into two baskets before the kids get home from school so I can tell them I folded laundry ALL DAY.
Twitter Name: Beccanurse
Give us time!
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