{"id":405,"date":"2004-12-19T17:23:48","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=405"},"modified":"2004-12-19T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T17:23:48","slug":"super-holiday-card-hangy-thingy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"super holiday card hangy thingy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter is actually a pretty crafty guy, but with all the 10th grade English papers he has to grade, he doesn’t have much time to channel his crafty side. Well, it’s winter break now, so let the crafting begin! He came up with a plan for displaying the holiday cards (apparently letting them sit in a pile didn’t work for him). He decided to use this as a model:
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\nHe went out to the hardware store and came home with a bunch of supplies (the whole thing cost under $10 to make):
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\nMost of the supplies he found in the electrical section. He got alligator clips, two types of wire (some thin wire, I think he called it bell wire for telephones?, and some heavier stuff. He suggests 16 gauge solid coated wire), and some suction cups (he got some with hooks on them).
\nTo make the line from which you will hang the cards, first remove the hooks from 2 suction cups then take the thin wire and wrap it around the centers (the part the hook was attached to). I guess you can leave the hook on and wrap the wire around that if you want. Peter used red, white, and green wire, and it was probably 4.5 to 5′ in length (you can always cut it if it’s too long. Peter left long tails so they would hang decoratively off the ends).
\nSo next you need to make the individual hangers. We used many different lengths of wire to create a staggered effect. Take one end of the cut wire and place it between the little metal tabs on the alligator clip. Take some needlenose pliars (Peter pilfered my beading pliars) and crimp the tabs tightly around the wire to secure it:
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\nSo then you take the pliars and bend the wire on the other end to create a little hook:
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\nRepeat with the other pieces of wire. You can get creative and make the wires loopy or squiggly or whatever. Hang the wires from the long piece and clip on your cards and voila!
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