How to Create Small Collections to Use as Home Decor

1. How to Create Small Collections to Decorate Your Home: Hi there. Welcome to how to Create Small Collections. In this course, I will share with you my unique perspective on creating and displaying small collections and hopefully provide a boost to your creativity as it relates to home decor. I have enjoyed creating small collections for over 20 years. Is it obvious? And I really enjoyed exercising my creativity in this way. I have maintained a number of collections over this Timeframe. Some collections were considered complete early on with just a few pieces. And others go back a long time and are still growing in a slow pace. This class is made up of short segments where I share thoughts and tips about how to Create Small Collections. Additionally, I share some insights about the creative process and how stimulating and beneficial it may be in the long run for us to engage our creativity in a variety of ways. I hope that this class provide some inspiration for you to consider creating a new small collection that you can share with us at the end of the class. Let's get started. 2. Why Create & Display Small Collections: Why create and display small collections. We tend to feel more connected to our living spaces when they are organized and we have taken the time to infuse them with memories, personality and character. Creating small collections, however, goes beyond connection and aesthetics. If you follow literature on brain science, you have probably read that we benefit from a variety of brain stimulation. The process of creating a small collection is engaging and stimulating and the end result can certainly continue to be a source of stimulation, inspiration and motivation. Many great reasons for considering this creative process. Okay. 3. What is a Collection: What is a Collection? The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines a Collection as a group of interesting, are beautiful objects brought together in order to show or study them. You do not have to be bogged down with trying to decipher major design elements. With small collections. You can feel free to think more in terms of personal visual appeal and interests. And just to recap the short section, when creating a small collection, no rules apply. Actually, the rules are and joy the process and admire your creation 4. How to Begin: How to Begin. You have free range to decide what is interesting and how simple or complex if you want your Collections to be. Ultimately. And as I mentioned previously, you have full discretion to decide what constitutes a Collection. To get started, you can take inventory of sentimental valuables and personal interests. Generate a wishlist to help you keep track of the direction you want to go. Try and consulting magazines, websites, and, or your favorite places. Ideally, you would also study your living this closely to draw inspiration and perhaps think about what message you want to convey with your creativity, your instincts, and your connection to the current objects occupying these spaces are likely to help you imagine an interesting collection. There are really no right or wrong answers to this creative process. Let's recap this section on how to Begin. Identify potential spaces. Set your expectations. Select an object, a theme, or an idea as a starting point, and think about the desired impact. What do you want to communicate with your small collection? 6. Size Timeframe & Budget: Size, Timeframe, and Budget less is more. Remember the premise here is that of a small collection. Set constraints for size. When you decide to start a Collection, be open to replacing a piece here and there to make room for that extra special piece that comes along after you have reached the stated goal. Here into manageable sized collections is especially important when considering seasonal collections as you have to also manage storage space. Gifting or donating is a good way of removing an item to make room for. Planning and patients could result in more meaningful Collections. It is easy to solve problems with money, but creating a small collection is not a problem. It is a creative exercise that is a lot more enjoyable if it stems from genuine interests in the process. It can be done with any Budget and as with anything else, we should operate within our means. Has a recap on this section. Remember that sometimes less is more. Try building collections over time to help contain size. Flexibility is important if you want to enjoy the process. And being mindful is also important, especially when it comes to budgeting 7. Collaborations: Collaborations, imagine and interesting collection. Share the category or theme with your loved ones. And then just wait for the special contributions to shape the end result. This could be a good strategy for seasonal or holiday Collections. Another way to involve loved ones is by inspiring them to create a unique RPs, to contribute to a small collection. How special with that small collection be? 8. Collecting as a Hobby: Collecting as a Hobby, collecting can be a great creative outlet. If you do not let it over on your life. You can connect and even bond with others who join in the experience. There is a sense of pride and accomplishment. When you achieve small creative goals you set for yourself. Not only that, according to Psychology Today. And an article titled The benefits of brain boosting hobbies. Researchers have found that people who practice a greater number of mentally engaging activities have better memory and executive functions and less risk of developing dementia. Such activities can also release stress. These small creative exercises may seem a bit silly until you live with our mean someone who suffers from dementia. Also, it may be easier to engage and enjoy stimulating activities later in life. When you have built your muscle along the way 9. Other Considerations: Other Considerations don't discount the possibility that are recycled or previously owned item could be the perfect piece to complete a small collection. Also, I suggest you consider selecting only objects that relate to stories that you would be willing to share. And as with other creative endeavors, creating small collections is a fine way to expand your horizons. You would have another excuse to explore new places and meet new people. And by the way, I suggest that sketching and photography or other activities be brought into this process. Wow, have your creative juices started swirling around your brain yet and joy the process. Share the experience. Gift, unique collections, and admire those that you keep for yourself. For years to come. 10. Expanding Your Creative Reach: Expanding Your Creative Reach. Here are examples of bringing creative photography into the mix. The minute I saw a bit of flat rocks during a recent trip to Salt Lake, the iconic Balanced Rock image came to mind. I instinctively recreated several versions of it on a mental park bench while waiting for others at the end of a walk, I took a few photographs. And as you can see, one of the images is quite unique. These rocks became another one of those small collections that keeps evolving as I lost a couple of the original pieces. The second image is another collection that has evolved from what I originally intended. I don't know, quite Vn where it will end up. Anyway. For the photograph, I chose flowers from my backyard, particularly for their multi burnt orange and yellow colors. The idea was to have the sculpture sit on top of the flowers. However, as I handle them, the petals drew my attention. I was inspired to position some of them resembling finger's resting on a face. I hope these images inspire you to let your imagination run wild and adopt the creative process that brings you joy 11. Thank You!: Here we are at the end of this class. Thank you. I hope you have become inspired to create at least one new and unique small collection to enhance one of your living spaces. I encourage you to please share a photograph of your creation on the project page. And I would love it if you also included a few thoughts about the approach you took. Once again, thank you for taking this class and I hope to see you again soon.