33 - Wednesday, November 11, 1987 - North Shore News

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MY DAUGHTERS are all starry-cyed from the middle of had to experiment until |
November, running around waving Christmas lists and gift duplicated it.

books. ; It used to be a Christmas tradi-
If that isn’t enough, they’re on — shops.
my case to start baking, cooking Instead, she donates almost Saturday afternoon

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and otherwise sentencing me to six
weeks of hard labor.

Last Christmas, middle daughter
goaded me into garbaging all our
old tree trimmings and_ starting
from scratch. Let me warn you, if
you’ve got any ideas along those
lines, start yesterday.

I can't tell you how many sepa-
rate shopping trips we made, pour-

every one of the 30 or so she
makes to the Christmas Bureau.

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Now, for some of the recipes J
use to fill those little soup bowls. I
don’t know why I honor the hotel
for this recipe — the bleeps
wouldn't give me their recipe and ]

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department in Burnaby. Late in
the day, we headed for the Villa
hotel for a beverage. The Villa us-
ed to serve pretzels and potted
cheese as a free snack. Here’s my
recipe for this discontinued luxury.

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ing rain ignored, to search
through Gastown, Lonsdale Quay,
shopping mails and speciality
shops. Naturally, I bought the kid
lunch and believe me, she isn’t
cheap to feed. Likes French res-
taurants, you see.

We found the absolute best buys
in tasteful ornaments at Wood-
ward's, including some lovely et-
ched glass white doves for about
$1. I'd suggest doing a lot of look-
ing before buying — the prices for
similar ornaments can’ vary as
much as $5 apiece.

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by Barbara
McCreadie
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I founda marvellous stall in
Lonsdale Quay where Christmas
wreaths are sold. The owner
agreed to make me up enough fan-
cy bows to cover cur entire tree --
at about half the cost of other
stores.

Another tip: we found that it
was cheaper to buy entire new str-
ings of lights than to replace all the
bulbs in tne old ones. We changed
our whole color scheme, you see.
Out with the green and blue and
into white bulbs, red velvet and
calico bows 2nd white and brass
ornaments.

When we were finished, Suzy’s
boyfriend Geoff remarked that the
tree looked ‘‘just like a mall tree’’
and I’m still not sure if that was a
compliment.

Another pre-Christmas idea that
my daughter reminded me of is for
many years I’ve kept an eye open
for small white onion soup bowls.
They come boxed in sets of four
and have lids. ;

These are great for filling with
some fancy food such as the reci-
pes to follow and giving as hostess

gifts. Zeller’s often features them
in pre-Christmas sales. .

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eaoram’s Five StarRye. |
Everything should be so smooth.

Another Christmas tradition in
our house is one | wish more peo-
ple did. Our eldest daughter, Lori,
starts about this time of year and
begins sewing doll dresses. Her .
creations are so beautiful that they .
would sell for $25. in speciality