The Great Race Project

The other day I posted on Instagram that I had a little project brewing. It looked a little like this.

 

I knew I needed to update my race wall in order to have a place to hang my new Goofy Challenge medals. My medal displays were getting filled up and starting to look a little cramped and quite frankly a little messy. That meant it was finally time for me to hang my Coast to Coast display rack, but that also meant I had to move some other things around that I previously had up.


My Coast to Coast medal display: The empty space will be for my Tinkerbell medal and my Coast to Coast medal.

 

So you may be wondering what all the colored paper had to do with my race project. Well, after I hung the display rack up ( I measured, leveled, drilled and hung it up all on my own by the way. Yup, I'll be asking for a little tool kit for Christmas this year..lol) anyway, after I hung it up, I noticed that you couldn't read the words very well (because they were cut out). Perhaps if I had a wall that was painted a brighter color ( instead of this awful wall paper that I won't get into right now) it might have shown up better. So, I cut out strips of paper (the acid free scrapbook paper) and placed it behind the words.

 

I did the same thing with my "Magical Miles" display as well. This one was a little trickier since I used a different color behind each letter. It kind of looks like it was painted that way don't way think?

 

 

I have a fresh new display now for my Goofy medals and I have room to hang up my Glass Slipper Challenge medals when I earn them later this month.  As I was cleaning my closet out I found this Disney picture frame that I never even pulled out of the box. It had to be from one of our trips at least 10 years ago. I forgot I even had it so it was a nice surprise. Since it was silver, I thought it would be perfect to hang near my medal display. I have it hanging off the display right now but I do plan on actually hanging it on the wall soon.

 

 

If you saw the picture of my race wall last year, you may remember that this medal display said "Magical Miles" and I had the Disney Princess medals on it.  Since I was re-decorating here, I decided to now use this display for all the Rock n Roll medals I have. I inserted pictures from our last Rock n Roll races to cover up the "Magical Miles". I alternated the lengths of the ribbons so each medal would hang evenly and not completely cover the other.

 

 And then of course I hung some of my race certificates. They don't look like they are hung evenly in this picture but believe me, they are. I measured.




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Things are a little different than the last time I showed my Race Wall.  When I first started a race wall I thought it might be a little "too much" but I'm starting to like it. It only takes up one wall in my dressing room and it's not overbearing. Since this room is upstairs, I'm really the only one that sees it anyway. Looks like I have lots of room to add to it too.

 

My sister and I were talking about this the other day and we were wondering if anyone else out there gives so much thought to how they display their medals?  For example, I told her that I couldn't just put the Disney Medals on the Coast to Coast rack because it actually says "Coast to Coast and Everywhere in Between". So that means I need to put some of the "between" medals ( from non Disney races) on it too.  If I didn't it would just be a Coast to Coast display, right?

 

Did you understand my theory on that?   Do you put much thought in to how you display your medals?