Ideas for What to Do with Silk Homecoming Mums

You could find someone who makes quilts and have them sew them into a quilt or a few pillows. I think they would be cute with the charms on there too.

Get a wide brimmed straw had and stitch them on around the crown.

Hot glue a clip onto the back of each one and wear as a hair clip.

Sew them all onto a wide piece of ribbon and hang on the wall near your bathroom sink, so you can see them every day.

Sew them into a bouquet and save them for your son's bride's to carry at the rehearsal.

Make a big floral arrangement that includes your mums. Use a glass vase and poke the ribbons around so they can be read through the glass.

We didn't have homecoming mums at my school. What fun. :)

Why don't you take a shadow box & make a collage out of them. If you don't want to display them, at least you can keep the momentos in a 'trunk' or someplace where you keep all of your treasures. If you don't want to throw them away at least you'll have them to keep & in a place where they won't be messed up. Good luck.

You might not want to take the mums apart, but you could use the petals in scrapbooking as well as the charms and ribbons. I'm sure you have photos and that would be a way to keep the memory alive.

I have been a stay at home teacher for 16 years. I think it is great.

I'm not creative or artsy but I'll give it a shot.

I'm a yankee and have no idea what these mums look like. Obviously a southern thing :)

Could you use tacky glue and attach them to the border of a picture frame that would be size appropriate. The border of the frame would be all flowers and you could put a pic of you from your high school days inside.

Or put the flowers in the shadow box like you said and attach the ribbons on the border of the frame so you can read them.

I just recently had the same question but didn't consider asking online. My poor mother has stored my loads of mums in her attic for years. Obviously that didn't help in the preservation of them. I finally gathered all of the mums and my 9 years worth of softball trophies, and took loads of pictures before discarding them. I don't regret it but it sure would've been fun to have picked out my favorite decorations from them and made a shadow box. Good luck!

1. Arrange all of the Mums on a black or white sheet and take a photograph that shows the special ribbons - then you can frame the photo/photos with the charms in a shadow box.

2. Take the ribbons that you want to keep and put them as the "mat" of a photo frame and then frame some high school photos and the charms.

3. They have coffee tables (and I assume other sized tables) that have a place for you to display things - it is a lot like a shadow box, but it is the size of a table... then they wouldn't be taking up space.

Whatever you decide to do - you carry your memories with you regardless if you have the actual physical pieces of the events!

Good Luck.
blessings,
stacy

if i were you i wouldn't take them apart. Have you tried "the container store"? I love that place! they have containers for everything and lots of neat storage solutions. They'll likely have a box for them. There is one by the Galleria in houston, also one on FM1960 in the champions area if you're familiar with that area. Good luck!

I think your shadowbox idea is a great one. Michaels has everything you should need. What about cutting some of the special ribbon and using it as a background for the charms? I've seen it kind of fan folded in pretty ways quite effectively. This silk mum thing was not done when I was in high school in Tennessee, so it seems strange and lovely (and expensive) to me.

What if you put all the charms , along with the ribbons that have something special written on them, on the best-looking mum (or two) and then put your "mega-mum" in a shadowbox? Just a thought...