Marble fireplace - how to attach the stockings???

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This is our first Christmas with a marble fireplace we are used to having wooden surrounds so could pop a small nail in the top, how on earth do I hang a stocking from marble?

Any suggestions would be welcome. They would have to take a little bit of weight ie a bit of chocolate.

Help please

A large plastic peg thing?

Those building things that look like giant nipple clamps?

or something like this

i must say we hang our empty but leave on floor when full

We used sticky-backed hooks on our fireplace.

They were quite tricky to remove if you don't want them up all year, but not impossible.

well we've had marble for 5 years now and every year it drives me nuts! when the stockings are empty I can actually sort of wedge them into the crack between the iron bit and the marble - but not safe when the fire's lit and no good for when they're full. The best I've managed is a huge wodge of blu-tac on a corner bit - basically a blutac hook. still deeply unsatisfactory - and still doesn;t work when full. i'll watch this thread with interest

have you tried those hooks with a sucker on the back (usually for window I'm guessing) they might stick to marble??

We have little ornament things with a hook that hangs over the front edge. They are quite heavy so they take the weight of a filled stocking.

put them under the xmas tree!

Cut a piece of wood to fit on the mantelshelf, paint it to match, them clamp it on (with those giant nipple clamp things LOLOLOL). Cover the edges and clamps with greenery or tinsel. Add nails or hooks into the wood. Sure its on martha stwart, i'll try and find a link.

all of these ideas are good - I esp ike the sucker hooks idea - but things to hang stockings up have to be fashioned out of whatever's lying around the house. at about 9 pm Christmas Eve. tis in the rules

You can buy weighted Stocking hangers that sit on the mantlepiece with a hook hanging over to hang the stocking from, but I can't find any very tasteful (or cheap) ones. Sure I've seen some silver coloured metal ones somewhere...

what about one of those 'suction hook' things?

not sure their real name but they are a hook on a sucker.. and you sort of puch the hook bit down which 'suckers' the air out of the sucker so its stuck

does anyone know what i mean...

u may use them in the kitchen for tea towels... at least my grandmotehr does!

(as BethandHerBrood says)

Aha - this is what I'm thinking of, but it's very expensive.

a bit Caroline wotsername methinks

OMG!! £29!!! Mine are not like that!!!!!

I needed to get another one this year for DS2, £5.99 in a garden centre. It's lovely, really traditional looking, kind of matches the other two, and is very heavy. What more do you need?

Who's Caroline wotsername?

here

£5.99 sounds a bit more like it, bethandherbrood.

inspired by this thread I bought a pack of rubber sucker type hooks. I am pleased to say they work perfectly. I've wrapped a small piece of red fur round them which covers the plastic perfectly. Thank you hotpot for starting the thread, or I wouldn't have thought about it. (I doubt they'll carry the weight when full, but let's face it they don;t stay full for long do they?)

Lakeland did some great plastic hooks that really stay up - but just checked thier site & they don;t seem to be on this year. They were in a pack of 3 (not much help really !!)

one of the stockings waited until I pressed "post" and then dropped to the floor. oh the dilemmas of the middle class