Look! Framed Children's Albums

When we saw this photo we became suddenly sentimental for all the children's records from our past that were unceremoniously sold off by our mother for 25 cents a pop at the annual neighborhood garage sale. It's true that we had moved on to cassette tapes (remember those?) and traded in Disney classics for Tiffany and Tears for Fears, but we still wish we'd managed to hold onto those records and this would have been a perfect way to display them.

Both for the convenience and to save space we now download the majority of our music and have no idea what the album art is so it's hard to imagine feeling nostalgic about it in the future. But a soft spot remains for the music of our childhood. We can so clearly picture all the animals on the cover of our Peter and the Wolf album and the Pepto pink cover of Free to Be You and Me. What do you remember? Did you keep your children's albums?

(The image above is by Paper Pony and was spotted as an "Art of the Display" feature on Poppytalk).

Comments (4)

I still have mine--and some of my mothers: that's fifties, sixties and eighties--what a great idea! The 101 Dalmations is one of them and I think I'll be buying some record frames soon!

posted by gourdsaregorgeous on October 24th 2008 at 12:44pm
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I just started a made hunt online, and at thrift stores. I'm looking for a kid's album I had in the 70-80's. It had at least four different stories on each (more stories, less music). The front of the album had a four square of the different stories. One in particular I remember was Pandora's Box. In the story it said, "what ever you do, don't open the box..." Kind of creepy, kind of cool. Any memories? I need to locate it! Help!

posted by jeneric on October 24th 2008 at 3:26pm
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i think this is SUCH a fantastic idea! wow.... we may be doing this in the den....

posted by roxtarchic on October 27th 2008 at 8:18am
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nice to see this - i recently did this myself! By the way, it was challenging to find nice, inexpensive square frames, but wood ones are available through Dennis Daniels Inc. (sold at many frame shops and art supply stores) in several colors and sizes - 10x10, 12x12 and 14x14.

posted by laurenb on October 27th 2008 at 11:20am
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