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Posted by MonicaTX (My Page) on Wed, Dec 10, 03 at 10:08
| Hi: I also posted this under apartment living. Through the year I have found free magnetic business card type items at my vet, walmart optical, etc. Some are heart shaped or bus shaped, it doesn't matter - for free I take them. My place has steel doors and my refrigerator has a steel door also. Use double-face tape and mount photos, pictures, etc. I have used my back door and refrigerator as a photo gallery. My back door looks especially great.
Today I used the same magnetic items and double-face tape to mount all the Christmas cards I have received. I even put a few on the outside of the front door because my wreath is too heavy to put on the door. In the summer I have a light-weight decoration that I hang with three magnetic items. No holes to repair, easily changed with the seasons and free. What can be easier? Merry Christmas. |
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| Nice idea! One of my decorating tricks is to use my houseplants as mini trees------just add some strings of lights---presto! |
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| I'm going to use my refrigerator magnets to make a kid's fishing game (attached to a string which is tied to a dowel) Paper clips put on cardboard "fish." |
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| A pair of scissors or pruners yeild beautiful fresh greens for decorating. You can make garlands just by adding a $2 roll of florist wire. Wear gloves though- pine needles can be very irritating. Pick up whatever you have outside- pine branches, cedar, cyprus, holly, grapevines, honeysuckle vines, berries (but keep berries out of reach of children and pets- most are poisonous), etc. Nothing beats the look and smell of fresh greens, and nothing is cheaper than free! |
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| I just saw this idea at my hairdressers house. She had a flat style Christmas tree with lights placed against her porch. When I admired it, she told me that a neighbor makes them from discarded artificial Christmas tree limbs! She takes the individual tree branches and wires them together to form a tree - any size she wants. Then adds some plug-in lights. Really cute and it does not take up any space to store because it's flat. |
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| My husband laughed at me, but I took our Halloween/Thanksgiving foddershocks and clipped the top section off, sprayed them green-------and I'm using them for small decorative Christmas trees!! They look great, with some red bows, clear lights, and gold ornaments. Very very easy to do. I have one on each side of the driveway. |
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| I saw some leftover pumpkins from Halloween that were spray painted gold. They look great as decorations even for Christmas. I use the free magnets for my preschoolers art work. We make things like hand turkeys and glue the magnets on. We send them to the grandparents to hang on their fridge. |
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