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Awards & Certificates

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for those of you that have won competitions or received awards with your dogs, how do you display your certificates & trophies?

I have just finished hanging up some of the awards that we have recently won (tests & trials) and wanted to see how other people show off their certificates?
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I don't. I laminate certificates and put them in a file, I give all my rosettes to PAT for recycling and trophies that have to be returned are engraved and put back in the box to they do not tarnish before I return then.

Those that are keepers, are on shelves.

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Allyson wrote: I am a lazy housewife :)
:-D me too! I got the OH to do it! :whistle:
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don't take any of it seriously enough to do anything 'displaying' wise, other than keep trophies on sideboard because that's the safest place and we wont loose them, some of the certificates have been laminated but all are in a draw or storage box somewhere. Still have some rosettes/certificates in car, must tidy that up at some point lol.
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After a couple of years of trialling you've got enough certificates to cover every wall in the house - an expensive way of redecorating at £25 a pop though! :lol: At the end of the day the only certificates worth framing are the ones that start FTCH and DoM ;) Sadly not received one yet :( :-D
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NickC wrote:After a couple of years of trialling you've got enough certificates to cover every wall in the house - an expensive way of redecorating at £25 a pop though! :lol: At the end of the day the only certificates worth framing are the ones that start FTCH and DoM ;) Sadly not received one yet :( :-D
yes i agree.
Although everyone has to start somewhere :angel: and each higher award we will be getting i will be replacing so it doesnt take over the house or the kennel! :-D
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I have a trophy which I am looking forward to giving back as it is one less thing to dust :-D My other certificates are all in a drawer somewhere, don't have anything really super.

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oh my god i feel weird now..... :nuts: going to put it down to being a newbie .....i only have 2 ........but have got clip frames and are now up proudly in the kennel :oops:
lol
would love to have that many wouldn't know what to do with them


one day :pray:

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With my first dogs i collected certificates and put up rosettes on the wall. I loved doing it and remember i felt very proud so why not? It soon became way too much for my small house and dusty too. I then began to only put up the special ones and collected the rest in a box. In the end i threw everything but the sjch Cerificate. Nowadays it's more collecting memories rather than bits of paper but i'll save the ftch one. :mrgreen:

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linney36 wrote:oh my god i feel weird now..... :nuts: going to put it down to being a newbie .....i only have 2 ........but have got clip frames and are now up proudly in the kennel :oops:
lol
would love to have that many wouldn't know what to do with them


one day :pray:

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