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by Melissa December 21, 2016November 28, 2018
written by Melissa December 21, 2016November 28, 2018

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Way back in the day, I used to collect spoons. Yes, spoons.

It all started when I was 11 years old, and my then–21-year-old sister had gone on a trip to Paris. As a souvenir, she brought me back a spoon. And like an 11 year old brat, my reaction was something like, “A SPOON?? WHAT A LAME GIFT! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH A SPOON.”

But, after getting over my initial bratty disappointment, the spoon spawned a collection hobby over the course of 10+ years. Everytime I traveled, whether with my family or by myself, I bought a spoon. Pretty soon, my spoon racks at childhood home were packed to the gills.

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I stopped collecting spoons sometime in the 2002 range. I started traveling to more diverse destinations, and spoons weren’t always available in gift shops. Plus, I learned the value of buying locally made souvenirs, or souvenirs with some cultural meaning. (Although I still like to buy my Christmas ornaments!)

But, that still left all my old spoons. Still sitting in their display racks at my dad’s house. I wanted to keep the spoons. And I liked the idea of displaying them in our house now instead of my dad’s. But I wanted to figure out a more modern way of displaying them. Plus, I thought that the racks always looked too cluttered:

Old spoon rack displays Old spoon rack displays

Plus, some of the spoons were too “fat” and couldn’t even fit in the slots. So, they just kinda laid at the bottom of the rack.

Old spoon rack displays

A little old fashioned, no?

Old spoon rack displays Old spoon rack displays

So, after considering many different options for displaying my spoons, I kept coming back to this image as inspiration that I found via Pinterest. I really liked the display option. Clean, modern, uncluttered.

But, unfortunately the photo was sorely lacking in any sort of explanation or tutorial about how the spoons were mounted. After trying many different solutions (all of which failed), I settled on plain old hot glue. (I’ll talk more about my experimentation with different materials at the very end of the post).

Tutorial

First, I bought some shadowboxes. After many MANY trips to places like Michael’s and AC Moore, I concluded that A) Pretty much every shadowbox was poor quality. B) Despite being poor quality, large shadowboxes were still quite expensive, even when using Michael’s regularly-offered coupons. C) And finally, even ignoring the quality and cost, I couldn’t find a shadowbox in a wide enough size that I was hoping for.

 

 

So, I ordered a custom size shadowbox from PictureFrames.com, and I was really pleased with the quality. They weren’t exactly cheap, but they were exactly the dimensions that I wanted, they cut a high quality mat precisely to size, and the frame and glass were great quality.

In case anyone is looking to get something similar, this is what I ordered:

  • Shadowbox with outside dimensions of 39×10.
  • White Custom Suede Mat

First, I laid out the spoons on the white suede mat until I found an arrangement that I liked. I staggered the spoons from the approximate middle of the matboard, which I thought looked nice considering that they vary so much in side.

Modern spoon display tutorial Arranging spoons for display on the matboard

Next up, it was time to hot glue the spoons to the mat. Using the tiniest dabs of hot glue that I could manage, I put a dab on the “most convex” part of the spoon (is that a thing?). Basically the back of the spoon that has the most surface area that would touch the mat. Then I also put a tiny dab of glue on the top of the spoon. This part was really tricky for some of the spoons that had dangling ornaments in that area.

Hot gluing spoons to matboard for display Hot gluing spoons to matboard for display

I repeated the process for each spoon, until all the spoons were glued to the matboard. Then came the process of cleaning up all the little hot glue boogers and strings. This was fairly tedious, looking for mostly translucent pieces of glue against a white background. I had the most success when I pointed an adjustable floor lamp directly at the matboard. The hot glue strings would create shadows on the matboard, and I was able to clean off even the less obvious pieces.

Cleaning off hot glue strings Cleaning off hot glue strings

Then, I just let the spoons sit and dry on the matboard for about 24 hours. After 24 hours, I leaned the matboard up against the wall for another 24 hours to test that the spoons were glued strongly enough to the matboard that they wouldn’t fall down when hanging vertically. After 24 hours and no falls while leaning vertically, it was time to put them in their shadowboxes.

I bought two total shadowboxes, which are at different spots around the house now. Here’s one leaning on a ledge shelf in our basement. Pretty snazzy!

Modern spoon display frame

And much better than the old display, don’t you think?

Old spoon display shelf

How I decided what materials to use

This project took me FOREVER to finally implement. Mostly because of how many options I mulled to mount the spoons.

In the inspiration image that I shared, it looked like the spoons were mounted using some sort of clips. Well, after searching high and low, I did finally find and order something that looked similar. Unfortunately, the clips were way too big for most of the spoons that were narrow.

Back to the drawing board. Then I considered “threading” the spoons to the matboard. In other words, taking a needle threded with some wire or fishing line, and adhering the spoons to the matboard that way. Well, it was extremely difficult to “tie” the spoons tightly enough to the matboard without bending or warping it. Plus, after threading just a few spoons, I could tell that it would be very time intensive to do it for the 100 spoons that I had!

 

Next, I tried an option that I hadn’t been crazy about … hot glue. I was so afraid of permanently damaging my spoons. Or, if I ever wanted to disassemble the frames, bending or ruining the spoons if I tried to remove them from the matboard.

So, what I did was I looked for a spoon that didn’t have much sentimental value. It was from a location I had never visited, and had probably been given by a family friend who had gone on vacation somewhere. I couldn’t even remember who would have given it, so clearly there was no sentimental connection to the spoon. I used some hot glue and glued that spoon to a scrap piece of matboard. And, I let it dry. A few days later, I was able to easily “snap” the spoon off the matboard. Yes, it ruined the matboard, but not the spoon. And, I was also easily able to scrape off the hot glue on the back of the spoon without damaging it or bending it. I tried it for all the other remaining spoon materials, like the pewter spoons too. Zero damage to the spoons, all very easy to remove.

So, I was sold. No, I don’t know if there might be very long term damage thanks to the hot glue, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take to put my spoons on display!

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Kellee August 30, 2017 - 8:25 pm

I was wondering If the spoons were showing any type of damage from the hot glue?

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Melissa September 2, 2017 - 11:52 am

Nope! Like I mention in the post, I’m definitely no archivist, and wouldn’t recommend this for anything that absolutely couldn’t be marred. But, after my first few experiments, I was able to “pop off” the hot glue from the back of the spoon pretty easily.

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Ina October 5, 2017 - 5:57 pm

Hi there I am collecting spoons as well and I am planning to discay it soon in my kitchen. I am wondering where you got that kind of shadow box? Is it custom made? I can only find small ones. Thanks

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Melissa October 10, 2017 - 12:08 pm

Yes, details about the shadowbox is in the 2nd paragraph in the “tutorial” section. I ordered it in a custom size from PictureFrames.com

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Stephanie October 19, 2017 - 10:09 am

Your display looks fantastic! I have Welsh Love Spoons I want to display. They are hand carved wooden spoons. I’m not sure how to attach them to the mat without damaging the wood and haven’t seen any tutorials that might help me. In your search for display ideas, did you come across any tutorials that might be helpful for my project? I spoke with a framer at Michaels and she suggested clips or threading. Can you tell me where you found the clips you mention? Thanks in advance for any tips you may have.

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Melissa October 20, 2017 - 3:52 pm

Sure, it didn’t work for my needs (the clips were way too big), but here is where I bought them: http://www.mighty-mounts.com/Spoon-and-Object-Holder.php. It’s called a Spoon / Object Holder Mount.

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MaryAnn November 4, 2017 - 9:50 pm

Love how your spoon display looks! Would like to do something similar with mine, but find that they tarnish easily and I have to clean them several times a year. Do you have any problems with tarnishing or did you treat the spoons with something to prevent that problem?

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Melissa November 8, 2017 - 8:56 pm

Hi, I generally don’t worry too much about the tarnishing. I think it adds character! But, most of my spoons are not “real” silver, so the tarnishing is not nearly as bad as someone with an actual, valuable spoon display. But, I think if you took the spoons out of the frames (leaving them attached to the backing), that you could do some light buffing while they’re still attached.

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Kate April 11, 2018 - 10:49 am

Did you buy 2 inch deep shadow boxes or 3?

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Melissa April 11, 2018 - 8:10 pm

Hmm, you know, the depth isn’t on my order confirmation. I’m guessing it’s the 2 inch deep.

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Naomi Dukes June 25, 2018 - 12:11 pm

Love what you did with your spoons. It’s perfect. I’d searched the internet looking for a display case that would house all of them and found it limiting and there are some of odd sizes as well. My neighbor started my collection over 30 years ago with a trip to Poland to see the Pope. I’ve been collecting ever since. She recently passed away and reorganizing and re-displaying the spoons would be a perfect honor to our precious friendship and my memories of the best “Neighbor” in the World.

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Amina Advany Maglajlic June 1, 2019 - 2:08 pm

Thank you so much for sharing the whole tedious process. ESPECIALLY your hot glue test. I call my spoons my old lady collection and love them. I also get spoons from exotic locations I just get normal spoons usually from coffee or tea sets but of course there is no way to tell where they’re from. What I love, is with your method I can lable where their origin.

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Melissa June 1, 2019 - 2:21 pm

Ha, old lady collection, that’s perfection! Glad you found it helpful!

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Bryan Tomkinson June 5, 2019 - 12:45 am

Love your post Melissa, at last a Pinterest topic with the How-To, good on you, wonderful.
I have just started gathering, not quite collecting, (yet) spoons, I had the same attitude growing up as Amina did, only old ladies, here we are!! go figure?
Quick tips from you and maybe other readers, I’m in Australia so often yours/our store supplies will differ, but I am at the stage of handling the spoons and cleaning them, I’m a bit inclined to use some for display and maybe sell, not sure yet.
I have seen the bi-carb, aluminium foil and hot water method, just wondering how that goes with the stuck on designs?

Lovely to just spend time pouring over the wonderful designs and appreciate the ideas.
regards
Bryan

PS
I had the idea of cleaning and then storing the cleaned spoons, looks like I need to get some of those cabinets, as a temporary storage idea, then sell or keep them.

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Evan June 11, 2019 - 5:46 pm

Awesome job Melissa…. love what you did.
I’m a 50 something racing driver and collect spoons…. so just goes to show, hahaha
Cape Town, South Africa.

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Carmen July 11, 2019 - 7:18 pm

I’m in the process of displaying spoons and came across your display – looks great! I’ve been hesitant to use hot glue and bought some ‘Scoth Removable Mounting Putty’. I’m curious if you tried this method and how long the spoons would stay stuck?

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Melissa July 11, 2019 - 7:22 pm

I have not used it, so I’m not sure how or if it would work, sorry! But, I’d say you could always start with a small scale experiment. Use the putty to mount one spoon on a cheap frame, and see if it holds for a while. Good luck!

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Deborah September 1, 2019 - 1:34 am

Hot glue, you are a genius. I have a collection of old pins and broaches several without the pin part that I’ve been wanting to mount in a shadow box. I was at a loss how to do it. Will be hot gluing in a day or two when I get all the supplies together. Thanks

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Catherine Burnham June 20, 2020 - 4:24 pm

Were any spoons silver or silverplated? I’m trying to do something similar but I’m worried about tarnish over time. Did your spoons tarnish? Thanks.

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Melissa June 21, 2020 - 12:54 pm

Yes, some of the spoons are tarnished, but it doesn’t really bother me much. I’d say about 30% of them have some sort of tarnish.

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Jennifer October 25, 2020 - 12:55 pm

Love this idea! I have my grandma’s spoon collection and I could never figure out a way to display them aside from the way she had them. I think this would work out very nicely! Now to find shadow boxes.

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Susan Fitzgerald November 9, 2020 - 8:50 pm

Just read your piece on the spoon collection. Have had my mother’s collectio for over 20 years. Getting ready to move & don’t want them. Cleaned them up and they look good now. Where should I take them to sell? Any suggestions? Some dated 1835.

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Toni November 13, 2020 - 1:44 am

Do you know of an option to clip the spoons rather than glue them? A lot of mine are engraved all over and are valuable. I absolutely love your idea, beautiful!

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Carmina Martí November 13, 2020 - 9:52 am

I thank you very much for your very clear explanation. You didn’t have the luck to find a tutorial but you’ve been so nice to help other people like me.
I congratulate you very much for the result and now I’ll try to put my spoons this way.
Thanks!

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Tish Wilkins November 19, 2020 - 11:25 pm

I have my grandmother’s spoon collection and have looked for other options for displaying them. Has the hot glue held up over time?

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Melissa January 24, 2021 - 10:24 am

Yes it has. All the spoons are still adhered to the backing!

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Jennifer August 24, 2021 - 12:19 pm

I was thrilled to find your blog, Melissa. I saw the photo of spoons in shadowboxes on Pinterest but could not figure out how they were mounted. You answered all the questions! I also appreciated your discussion, and photos, of the downsides of traditional wooden spoon racks: they look cluttered and many spoons don’t fit. The shadowboxes look so much cleaner and do a much better job of highlighting each spoon. Thank you for a great tutorial. Jennifer

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Cindy October 9, 2021 - 6:19 pm

Melissa thank you for posting this!
I just received all of my sister’s spoon collection after she passed (from my brother in law). The glass was broken out of one of the old display cases.
I just got on Pinterest to see a more updated take on spoon displays. Loving yours. Luckily my sister and I traveled to a lot of places together so almost all of the spoons have double meaning for me.
Thank you again!

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Karen February 20, 2022 - 7:06 am

If you don’t wish to use hot glue then I would use florists pins, (they kind of look like a square top bobby pin) or museum putty (this won’t damage anything as they use it for valuable art)!

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Amanda July 11, 2022 - 2:38 pm

I love this. I have a huge collection and I’d love to display them. I’m thinking that I might do a couple of different ones and group them together by themes or locations. Thanks for the great update on the old spoon racks

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