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| Since we were not putting up a tree this year my wife
decided she wanted to display some of her many ornaments
using a little bit different method. One way she came up
with was to use a picture frame, fasten on some chicken
wire, and hang it horizontally from the ceiling. She
painted it silver and used short lengths of light chain
to vary the height of the ornaments. |
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| This is another view of the entire rack. |
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| And a third view. |
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| Here you can see how the chains are mounted into the
frame. Four holes were drilled, one in each corner, and
T-Nuts were hammered in from the face of the frame and
threaded eye hooks screwed into the T-nuts. Regular nuts
were tightened down from the back on the threaded eye
hooks to lock them into place. |
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| S-hooks are used to fasten the chains that hold up
the frame to the eye hooks. Chicken wire is simply
stapled to the back of the frame. |
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| Here is a view of the T-Nuts from the from of the
frame. |
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| Two sets of chains go to eye hooks that are fastened
into the ceiling. |
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| This is another interesting and different christmas
idea. Christmas lights are placed in white plastic dryer
pipe with a thick wire used to give it shape, and the
whole thing is hung from the ceiling. Monofilimant
fishing line is used to support it. She got this idea
from a show on TV but can't remmber which one. |
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