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I have my 2 beloved dogs' urns, 2 collector cars, a small oil lamp and a bottle of sand my daughter created in class last year on my mantle. Also have a few shirts hanging from it to dry. Ohhhhhhh and I have some antique lace draping on the ends along with alot of ashes from the fire that floated up when one of the logs rolled off on me last week.

I have a fireplace but no mantel alas. I can tell you whats on the walls of my haven,my bedroom a photo of a black cat' sitting on a computer waiting for his young mistress to come home from school, a cat calendar and a dog calender, pictures of flowers and water falls and my collection of pretty baskets and on myfile cabinets and dressers are my big beanie baby collections. lol.

We don't have a fireplace so I will have to pretend. I'd put a flatscreen television above the fireplace if there was enough room. Would also have pictures of our kids and grandkids and a small vase with one artifical flower in it on one end. Might also add a photo of my parents and in-laws. They are all gone now. I'd keep adding things but the mantle would have to be the length of our street when I was finished..lol

Here's a shocker.... I have pieces of pottery. Not any of my own pieces though. I am very hard on my own work and have very few of my own pieces in my home.

I also would have family pictures along with greenery and candles...Yeah right That is what I dream it would look like..If I did, I would try to have those things, but here comes hubby and daughter to put their junk there.. (Sorry, you caught me in the middle of Spring cleaning, I can't believe the junk these people collect and put where it doesn't belong..)

When I was a kid there would be pictures of my cousins an sibilings. Well that is until christmas then my grandmother would get out all of her decor and replace it with that until about new years, or after. It's been so long since they've actually decorated. Where I live now it varies on the season. When I get my own place (well one with a fireplace) I will probably just have a few decorations, am not sure if I would change it on a regular basis or what not.

On my Fireplace I have a Picture of my Son and his Ex Fiancee which I guess I will be taking down soon, I have a Picture of my Friend in America with her Husband I have a large Dolphin Picture there to, a Bowl with Pot Pouree and 2 Fairy Ornaments Love you Sweetie xxx

no pictures on my fire place but i do have my ritual candles, a clock and numerous important letters behind it lol

We don't have anything on our fireplace but we do have a painting on the wall above it. Because it sits quite low, putting anything on it, covers some of the painting.

Nope no pictures on mine! I have candles , big chunky ines, some lovely rosses from a friend, ornamental mother and baby owls that fit together (a present from my son) and a large vase filled with colourful pot pourri! All the pictures are on the glass shelves beside my fireplace! xxx

Well I don't have a fireplace or mantle but do have pictures around the place..some are my black and white prints of photos I've taken over the years, have some of my watercolor paintings all over too---I have one photo of my cat Pyewacket tacked on the fridge..hehe...Funny never thought of having photos up in general of my two kitties...think they're mad at me?

Hello dear TerryZ. Thanks so much for your generosity in this discussion. Well, in fact, I do not have a fireplace as is mentioned here, but I would be very happy to pretend that I had one. Smiling. I would like to have a picture of beautiful nature with rows of trees in the forest and small animals and birds living in it. I would also like to have a small clean river running through the forest as I love to live next to a river to see it flowing all the way to the east with fish swimming in it happily. I dream to live in such a place, listening to birds chirp and twitter among the trees, seeing small animals like rabbits and deer playing in it. I love this kind of life. So I imagine my picture on my fireplace this way. Thanks very much for letting me have an imagination of mine. I feel so good about this picture. Good day, my dear friend.

I have a gas fireplace but I don't have pictures on the top of it. I guess I could put a few on it, but since I just moved I am not finished unpacking yet. Right now I have a gtray with a little puppy dog toy on it. And I have two candles on it, too. I have a big oil painting hanging above it and I think if I put other pictures on it, it will take away from the oil painting. Maybe.

I don't have a fireplace but if I did I would have pictures or my kids and a family picture up there then probaly some of my unicorn watergloes or something like that to make it pretty. I would love to a have a fireplace at Christmas time to decorate I think they would be really pretty with decorations.

I had to go down to check what we had on our fireplace and all we have is a little clock, nothing else, so pretty boring in this household LOL. Mum keeps all her photos etc in her own room, the front room where all the ornaments and frames are, I think they'd get broke if left in the main room where dad is. Mum likes her ornaments and they adorn her fireplace in her room.

I dont have the luxury of a fireplace.. oo i wish i did in the winter. that would be nice.. my friend has a propane one in her basement.. its nice.. fake like, but nice. there is no mantal though there are shelves all around it, she has all her booze she's collected from around the world up there. weird and odd shaped bottles, even a bottle with booze in it that is in the shape of a handgun!

First, pretend I have a fireplace. Now pretend it ISN'T where the cats can get to it. I'd have the mantle covered in dust and junk. And when a cat did get in they'd knock it all off.

We have pictures, a lamp, a few plants, and several knicknacks on our mantle. The mantle runs the whole length of the room, so it is about 16 feet long. There is room for plenty of stuff.

My fireplace is covered in the kids toys! I have to clean it everyday as they seem to use it as a storing place! At the minute I have the phone, an easter card off my son that he made himself at school, he is 7 and it is lovely, the only trouble was he only put it to mummy and not daddy and so that did not go down too well. But he did say he would put his dad on it next year, so thats not too bad I guess, then there is a trophy that my 7 year old won for literacy at school and I am extremely proud of that and polish it up quite often, and then there are just doctor who figures and all other kinds of action figures so it is all a bit crowded!!

An antique clock, 14 candles in a mix of brass holders, an antique lantern, pic of my stepson graduating college, pic of my sweet bebe cat that passed away several years ago and one of those weird glass thermometers that have the different colored floating glass beads inside (anyone have any idea what I'm talking about???)