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[lathany]

Do you display your Christmas cards around the house and, if so, how?

I've been pegging cards (almost all Bea's) to long pieces of striped string and then attaching them to hooks on walls to hang them down vertically. bateleur has admired my efforts and commented that his parents always went for the "washing line" effect. I also like putting them on the mantelpiece, but this requires a mantelpiece and a suitable number of cards.

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[onyxblue1.livejournal.com]

I plan on putting them up around the entrance to the living room. Then what to do with the pictures that some people send with them . . . I don't know. Maybe just put them in a photo album?

And notice I said "plan," not "will" or "do.":-)

[lathany.livejournal.com]

How many people send pictures? And are they family pictures?

[onyxblue1.livejournal.com]

Usually they are family pictures. How many I get depends on who's actually getting cards out this year.:-) It's not many, but there are a few.

[applez.livejournal.com]

For future reference - and perhaps more applicable for postcards than Christmas/Birthday cards ... punch a hole in a corner of each, and hold together with a metal ring, snap onto towel rack in bathroom.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that make them smell of damp towel?

[applez.livejournal.com]

That may be a peculiarly British challenge...but a solution may be to place it away from most humid sources.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Do you display your Christmas cards around the house and, if so, how?

Picture side out.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I should've guessed someone would say that. And you'd have been one of my top two choices for doing it (the other being smiorgan).

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

I like to think of myself as reliable rather than predictable.

[jakemalone.livejournal.com]

My mum also tapes them vertically to a piece of ribbon, then hangs the ribbon down the side of the doorframe. Cards which pass muster (criteria include niceness of card, matching the decorations, and closeness of relatives) go on the mantlepiece.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Closeness of relatives as in the ones with the closest blood ties, the ones she feels closest to or the ones that live closest - on the grounds that they might pop around and see where their card landed?

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I also prefer the washing-line effect. But T has an ornamental "card tree" which holds them in slots, so we use that for the main tranche, and the overspill tends to remain sitting around on mantelpieces etc.