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Show I Make the Most of Your Cards Here Are Some Possibilities IJ i 44! '4 - -nil T0 YOU 'have a hankering to make your home bright for the hohdays? Then gather up the Christmas Christ-mas cards you've been finding m your mail box these December mornings, for those colorful bits of "Season's Greetings" have no end of Christmas decor possibilities. Especially during the holidays, "home is where the hearth is." So here are some suggestions for "dressing up" your fireplace in an eye-catching mantle of Christmas cards. In less time than it takes to read this, you can line up your Christmas cards, in not too precise rows, or hang them in festoons from the mantel, as illustrated above. This simple trick could just as successfully be applied to the top of your bookcase, or to a tiered table. But if you're looking for the in- i j genious, here are some other ideas. ; Is it a touch of patriotism that you J want to add to your Christmas scene? With the assistance of some scotch tape you can easily arrange ! your Christmas cards in a "V" for-, for-, mation over your fireplace. Or per- haps you feel in the old-fashioned j and traditional mood. Then attach j wide red or green ribbons (or both) ; festoon fashion around the mantel ! and secure the cards to the ribbon with paper clips. Or frame your I fireplace by pasting Christmas cards ! in a scattered design. I Why not try decorating your spruce or pine with Christmas cards? (See the sketch in the upper left hand corner.) You'll find this novel idea quite as gay as the usual adornments, and twice as refresh- ing! Incidentally, should the thought-' thought-' ful people who sent you the cards stop in for a holiday visit, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see how flat- tered they'll be at finding their re-! re-! membrances so charmingly displayed. dis-played. - If you're really a conscientious i conserver, here's another item to I add to your list. Have you always hesitated to destroy your Christmas ' cards because cf sentimentality or the obvious beauty of the cards? Then you should be pleased to hear that there are any number of different dif-ferent uses to which they can be put from adding a decorator's touch to an old wastepaper basket to making place cards for a kiddie party. Here are some suggestions for enlisting your holiday greetings in a good cause. Why not have your club pool their receipt of Christmas cards? Delightful Delight-ful scrapbooks could be made for the children of servicemen in your neighborhood. Or send the cards to the children's wards in hospitals. The young patients enjoy handling the colorful cards, and making their own scrapbooks helps them pass the weary hours swiftly. Army and navy hospitals look forward for-ward to receiving tray favors made from used Christmas cards. And the servicemen appreciate the thought behind the token. If your club is planning to participate partici-pate in a war-relief bazaar, inexpensive inex-pensive and distinctive novelties can be made from Christmas cards. Bookends, vases, bookmarks, hand blotters, match books can all look quite impressive by the simple addition addi-tion of a design cut out of Christmas cards. |