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A friend just gave me a set of really old, cute Betty Crocker recipe cards with amazing pictures of 60s food on the front of each. I'd love to display these in my kitchen, but I'm not sure how. They're about the size of baseball cards, and I suspect would near disappear in actual picture frames. Ideas?

I forgot to add that I'd like to display them on a WALL.

You could get a frame designed for a panoramic picture and center the cards along the horizontal axis, spread out a little bit. This could be hung over your stove, or sink, or someplace else with wide-but-short wall real-estate available.

If you frame them in large frames with nice big mats you'll give them some importance and they won't get lost in the frame.

brian, amy, thanks for your ideas! To give you some idea, THIS is my kitchen. I wanted to hang them on the open space on the right wall. I have at least 10 cards - perhaps if I got two panoramic frames and hung them one over the other?

Would you hang the two panoramic frames on the big blank space that we see to the right in your picture? I'm just wondering if that would look odd next to the high shelf and the plates that are hanging underneath it. Is there a way to incorporate the two items?

We have always collected vintage fruit crate labels. I bought a TON of square frames from Ikea (glad that I bought so many because now they don't sell that particular size anymore). Each label is matted in it's own frame. Since the labels are different sizes and orientations the uniformity of the frames brings it all together. In our previous home we hung them on a large blank wall in the dining room (the room wasn't big enough for any furniture along that wall) in a grid pattern. It actually covered the entire wall. The uniformity of the frames, large mats, and grid pattern kept it visually simple while adding quite a punch.

I too am not sure about two panoramics on top of each other. A big empty wall space is always daunting at first...good luck!

Would you consider relocating the platters and hanging the panoramic frames under the shelf?

Another possibility -- but it would take some careful shopping -- is the kind of frame that's meant to hold a dozen photos or so, each photo in its own little mat. A lot of those frames are ghastly, but occasionally you'll see one that just has a plain black edge.

I am seriously considering moving the plates. I like them there, but both my boyfriend and I keep elbowing them and I'm afraid something might happen.

I just remembered that I have these photo-clip things that I got ages ago and never used. I'm going to try that first (sine it won't cost me any money!)