pattim Posted February 14 Posted February 14 On 2/8/2026 at 5:21 PM, Davidcon6972 said: How beautiful! @Davidcon6972 Thank You! Quote
jmyster Posted February 14 Posted February 14 I think this is a great topic as I have seen many people online talking about having a complete collection, I think you can be complete for a pin series or set, but for characters or movies that feels like chasing an impossible dream, as soon as you are 'done' a new pin comes out somewhere in the world you need to add. There is only one board in my collection I feel is complete, that is the pins I collected in honor of 911, these help to lift my heart up after a terrible day. I don't feel the need to add anything to this board as it accomplished it's goal and is still a treasured part of my collection. 3 7 Quote
buzz2001 Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Awesome collection! That's what is great about collecting Disney pins. It means different things to different people. One of my side collections is patriotic Mickey. I'm missing a couple that I want but feel complete with most. It started as pins with Mickey only and changed direction a couple of times thanks to friends giving me other pins. Pin trading is always fluid. 1 9 Quote
swim2sea Posted February 17 Posted February 17 I’m learning so much from reading everyone’s posts and I’m one who loves to learn. So keep posting and teaching. @TheTwins my friend is a BATB collector and she also struggles with her collection. It’s probably a bigger collection than Alice in Wonderland. I like that you have narrowed it down to what you relate to most. If I had done this in the beginning with Alice I wouldn’t have so many pins. I also collect Bobbie Pinback and it’s a small collection but so cute. @buzz2001 Your collections leave me speechless. What fantastic pins you have. Makes me feel like my collections are small. I maybe need to start a patriotic board in honor of my father and brother-in-law. I do have all their medals and honors in a frame that was professionally done. This is the shot in the arm I needed to start back framing my pins. I have my Splash Mountain and Three Caballeros that need to go in frames. But I do have a question for y’all. Do you put plexiglass in your frames or are they open? What do you use for the backing? I really am enjoying this topic. It’s not only fun but it’s informative. 2 Quote
TheTwins Posted February 17 Author Posted February 17 @swim2sea - If you collect Bobby Pinback, I'll share a few other pins that we added to the collection that just seemed to fit so well! We got stiff felt paint-your-own pennants that we are going to use to display the pins. I also have collected some damaged and scrapper pins so that I can pin them on backwards and display the pinbacks themselves! 2 1 Quote
ViciousLady Posted February 17 Posted February 17 @TheTwinsUsing scrappers backwards to display unique pinbacks is SUCH a neat idea!!! @swim2sea Because we live in soCal I ALWAYS recommend framed pins have some kind of UV protection over them if they are being displayed where the light touches. Older pins will usually yellow and discolor in sunlight and newer pins with screen printed elements/freeD/etc will fade and wash out. 2 Quote
ViciousLady Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Omg @trouble2279 those are gorgeous! Fantastic job, what a fun way to hold pin backs! 1 Quote
tydipins Posted February 18 Posted February 18 For me, my two big Disney collections are pins and ear headbands, so I combined them! My ear headbands are displayed in my stairwell, and each headband has a circular corkboard they are attached to. Each corkboard is covered with pins that match the ears. It's a convenient way to display both collections, and it's so much fun to think about what pins fit the same theme as the ears! 4 Quote
WildernessExplorer Posted February 20 Posted February 20 This post inspired me to start a new collection!! I have now started a new page in my pin binder for books so any pin that features a character reading a book or is shaped like a book. Some of my favorites in my collection so far are: Would love to add these to my collection one day: 3 4 Quote
JennysPicks Posted February 20 Posted February 20 On 2/14/2026 at 10:29 AM, jmyster said: I think this is a great topic as I have seen many people online talking about having a complete collection, I think you can be complete for a pin series or set, but for characters or movies that feels like chasing an impossible dream, as soon as you are 'done' a new pin comes out somewhere in the world you need to add. There is only one board in my collection I feel is complete, that is the pins I collected in honor of 911, these help to lift my heart up after a terrible day. I don't feel the need to add anything to this board as it accomplished it's goal and is still a treasured part of my collection. This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing it. Quote
JennysPicks Posted February 20 Posted February 20 On 2/16/2026 at 7:27 AM, buzz2001 said: Awesome collection! That's what is great about collecting Disney pins. It means different things to different people. One of my side collections is patriotic Mickey. I'm missing a couple that I want but feel complete with most. It started as pins with Mickey only and changed direction a couple of times thanks to friends giving me other pins. Pin trading is always fluid. This is so great! 1 Quote
JennysPicks Posted February 20 Posted February 20 Some info for anyone interested: when mounting pins for a wall hanging, etc., using plastic mesh canvas sheets, (used in needlework), as a backing helps distribute the weight of the pins. Cork board, etc., will sag and slide over time. The mesh, (with the square holes), used alone or in conjunction with other materials, can be adhered to a solid backing, covered for esthetic purposes, and then framed, or whatnot. You can even use the pinbacks to fasten the pins before framing. So, if you're creating a long term or permanent display, this may be of help to you. Good pinning! 2 3 Quote
buzz2001 Posted February 21 Posted February 21 (edited) Here is another one of my side collections, Buzz Lightyear. I love the top frame. Edited February 22 by buzz2001 5 3 Quote
TheTwins Posted February 24 Author Posted February 24 @swim2sea I finally took a quick photo of my Beauty and the Beast board (though I do have some more pins to add to the collection). Sis painted it for me in the style of the "Windows of Love" mystery set, as the stained glass portions of the film are some of my favorite parts. It made a good center for the large button. I'm thinking to move some of the smaller, plainer pins into a book and keep the harder-to-display pins on the board. So many of them are hinged, pin--on-pin, etc. They're harder to keep in a book! I have the Chef Bouche WDI pin and really want to get him up there, but he's BIG! He's my favorite character from the whole movie -- with Prince right behind. There aren't very many pins with Prince on them, but I'm working to get as many as possible. Since this is a collection with so many choices, using the board with three distinct "areas" really helped me give some parameters to the pins. ~ Sarah 3 4 Quote
Davidcon6972 Posted Wednesday at 05:11 AM Posted Wednesday at 05:11 AM Wow! Beautiful. I love how it’s painted and how you placed the pins. 1 Quote
grottopins Posted Thursday at 09:43 PM Posted Thursday at 09:43 PM Two of my favorite collections are Beauty and the Beast and Atlantis. We recently moved into a bigger place and I can't wait to get them hung up! 2 4 Quote
bethgo Posted Saturday at 10:20 PM Posted Saturday at 10:20 PM (edited) I love all of these ideas! This morning, I just happened to create this display for my Lookout Cay pins. I think of my pin displays as telling a story, and this one tells of our first time visiting the island and the impression the Character backdrops made on me as we walked up. This is a photo display I created and then covered a piece of foam core to hang it after I attached the pins. Edited Saturday at 10:26 PM by bethgo 3 2 Quote
TheTwins Posted 4 hours ago Author Posted 4 hours ago Here's a photo of one of my favorite pin displays, and it's something totally different -- since the pins don't fit into any of my collections. When the Paint Jar pins came out at D23 in 2024, Sis and I loved them. We have gotten the few characters that we really wanted, but my problem was that the two jars I really loved were Aurora and Merryweather from Sleeping Beauty. I don't collect anything from that film! What to do . . . Well, first we got the pins. But what to do with them after that? We got to visit Disney Springs in January 2025, and there was a display in the very back of the The Marketplace Co-op that had just the ticket! It's a decorative tapestry showing Briar Rose at the edge of a stream, where her reflection is Aurora in the blue dress. So, I now have that tapestry hanging in our bedroom with the two paint jar pins on it! ~ Sarah Quote
JennysPicks Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago 43 minutes ago, TheTwins said: Here's a photo of one of my favorite pin displays, and it's something totally different -- since the pins don't fit into any of my collections. When the Paint Jar pins came out at D23 in 2024, Sis and I loved them. We have gotten the few characters that we really wanted, but my problem was that the two jars I really loved were Aurora and Merryweather from Sleeping Beauty. I don't collect anything from that film! What to do . . . Well, first we got the pins. But what to do with them after that? We got to visit Disney Springs in January 2025, and there was a display in the very back of the The Marketplace Co-op that had just the ticket! It's a decorative tapestry showing Briar Rose at the edge of a stream, where her reflection is Aurora in the blue dress. So, I now have that tapestry hanging in our bedroom with the two paint jar pins on it! ~ Sarah This is lovely! On 2/23/2026 at 4:22 PM, TheTwins said: @swim2sea I finally took a quick photo of my Beauty and the Beast board (though I do have some more pins to add to the collection). Sis painted it for me in the style of the "Windows of Love" mystery set, as the stained glass portions of the film are some of my favorite parts. It made a good center for the large button. I'm thinking to move some of the smaller, plainer pins into a book and keep the harder-to-display pins on the board. So many of them are hinged, pin--on-pin, etc. They're harder to keep in a book! I have the Chef Bouche WDI pin and really want to get him up there, but he's BIG! He's my favorite character from the whole movie -- with Prince right behind. There aren't very many pins with Prince on them, but I'm working to get as many as possible. Since this is a collection with so many choices, using the board with three distinct "areas" really helped me give some parameters to the pins. ~ Sarah Quote
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