We recently spent some time at Walt Disney World were we spent everyday of our trip trading pins with cast members and guests, and even were lucky enough to go to a Pin Trading Night at the Contemporary Resort. Well we came home with a lot of broken sets and were left with a hole in our excitement for Pin Collecting and Trading.
When we got home I started looking for other avenues of trading pins and I found a good one in Pinpics! Pinpics.com is a totally free site, that allows you to catalog your disney pin hoard and a great way to meet new friends. We've had a lot of fun trading with other people from all over the United States.
We just got done inventorying our pins with Pinpics exhaustive database of over 90,000 disney pins. Our collection has grown to 960 pins that we want to keep, 247 pins that we want to trade, and if you are like us 1418 pins that we WANT!
To date we have mailed about a dozen parcels all over the country. The biggest multiple single trade we've done so far was for 5 pins. It's been great fun so far. And if your like me you have a paypal account so you can create postage right from your desk and mail right out of your mailbox like the good old days. Paypal shipping is great, you can create postage with tracking (one caveat first class parcel has to be atleast 3/4" thick or the post office will charge your delivery address for priority mail which is usually a couple of dollars more).
Please take a moment to look over Pinpics.com's quick tour. Come join the community and learn about your disney pins that you are coveting so closely.
So look us up on Pinpics.com our username is vangoshen maybe we can work out a trade.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
How to keep the excitement of Disney Pin Trading going after you go home!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Walt Disney World / Disneyland Pin Trading Displays
Sarah and I are avid pin traders when we go to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. We have collected quite a few over the years and have a rather nice way to displaying them on our walls. Our original display which we still use can be seen in the first image is made of fabric stretched over a needle point hoop. I have since discovered the beauty and neatness of scrapbooking frames, which all the rest of the pin displays have been made from. These are easy to do and look great! All you have to do is get you a scrapbooking frame, a piece of your favorite scrapbooking paper, and 1 ft x 1 ft square of corkboard (which comes in 4 packs). Take the frame and remove the glass and throw it away put back in the 4 glass holders/spacers then your paper, cork board and back and it's ready to go!
This is our original pin hanging, we use it today for the really heavy pins and some of our absolute favorites. It's strong point is that you poke the pin through and use the mickey back to hold the pin in place from the backside. The downside is you have to take it off the wall to add more pins, and you are limited by fabric choices plus if your fabric has patterns it's really tricky to keep from stretch distorting the pattern.
After I discovered the scrapbooking frames, I'd just look around until I found some nice Disney related scrapbooking paper, and pick up some accent stickers to really customise the display. These frames are awesome in that you take the pin and remove the mickey ear back and throw that into a bag and just stab the pin into the board wherever you want and your done.
By Frame #7 I have gotten lazy and quit putting the accent stickers on. This has a benefit though in that the display can hold more pins! This is one of my favorite displays as we have really enjoyed collecting Vinymation pins both the 3D and the 2D ones.
Frame #11 I didn't make it came this way allready framed and ready to hang.
I hope you enjoyed looking at our Disney Pins! I know we have really enjoyed collecting them and trading with hundreds of people and cast members at Walt Disney World. Please leave me a comment about what you think or how you display your pins.