Disclaimer: I received the following coaster from Kudos for free in exchange for posting pictures on Instagram. I think it’s pretty cool so I decided to also share some pictures on my blog. All opinions are my own…
My Kudos coaster arrived in a tidy little box, perfect for wrapping for gift giving. Because it had been pitched to me as a coaster for displaying finisher medals, I was happy to read that it’s also great for displaying other treasures, something I might not have thought of on my own.
The coaster is made of a solid weighted base and clear plastic cover. Inside are six foam backgrounds to choose from – white, black, gray, blue, yellow, and red. The thickness of your treasure will determine how many backgrounds you should leave in the coaster to create padding. Be sure to leave enough padding to keep your treasure from sliding around when you put on the top and move the coaster from place to place.
Once I opened the coaster, I immediately headed to my medal rack in our basement to try a few medals on for size. I selected the yellow foam background for my very first marathon medal, the 1997 Marine Corps Marathon. I loved the way it looked and the scale was pretty good.
Next I grabbed the medal from the last Marine Corps Marathon I ran in 2009, but that medal was too large to fit within the coaster. With medals getting larger and larger, I could see this being a problem for displaying medals from many of the current races.
The scale of my 2010 Boston Marathon was perfect and I decided the white background gave it the best pop.
I tried several of my other medals, but in the end I decided that I didn’t want to take them down from my display rack. I happened to remember that I had some of my age group place medals stowed away in a drawer and fished out this 5K award from one of my Sunrise 5K’s.
Since I wanted to show the coaster with other treasures, I pulled out a seahorse and starfish from my beach finds and placed them on the blue background.
But when it came down to making a final decision on what to put in my coaster before closing the lid, I opted for the age group medal because it fits best with our sports themed basement. Of course, I can open it up and change it anytime I want!
Cheers!
- Questions:
- What do you do with your race medals?
- Do you have more of the current huge medals or older small ones?
- Do you collect seashells?
This is such a great idea! I’m going to look into this. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome!
Nice! I have my race metals slung over a corner of the mirror on my dresser in my bedroom. I filled one corner and am now working on a second. The second corner will be full soon too. Don’t know what I will do next. I worked so hard for some of them. I hate to just stuff them in a drawer.
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You could buy another dresser and mirror. 😉
I do collect seashells.
I have loads of medals. The important ones (big races), I hang on the wall in a spare bedroom and the others (ag awards and shorter races), on hooks on the back of a drawer.
With how many races as you run and how often you win or place in your age group, I bet you have a ton of medals! 😀
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These are great and such a fun idea for a gift or to display your own medals
These would make a great gift. I’m thinking they’d make great MRTT prizes for contests.
I really love this idea. They look good too. You could easily make a set of coasters from your medals.
They’re very solid and look great.
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What a fun idea. I’m not sure any but my Damon Runyon would fit though as the NYRR ones trend big. Lebow might fit though as it’s a silhouette of his head.
I’m a shell & sea glass collector – imagine the latter could work well too. Thanks for sharing about these, fun idea
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Aren’t these great? And yes, that was the only drawback I saw – that the larger medals wouldn’t fit. With that being said, the coaster is pretty much the perfect size and if it were made bigger to accommodate larger medals, it would be a bit bigger than I’d like…
Such a creative idea Deb. Awesome. I’ve only two medals, but guess I can start 🙂
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