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Custom decorations
make season merry

BEYOND DECKING | the
halls with boughs of holly,
there are lots of quick and
inexpensive ways to add a fes-
tive touch to a home,

Decide in advance what type of

atmosphere you want and work to
_ereate it,
Organize decorations around a

theme that will suit the oature of

your guests, if entertaining, the
food served and the available
space,

Base the theme on the five sens.
es including the scents associated
with Christmas, music, visual dis-
plays, good food, and little gifts
for cach guest to touch,

An unusual theme can work as
well as a traditional one as long as
you follow it through completely.

Design your room as a “stage
and arrange it similarly to how
actors ‘block’ a set, according to
the routes your guests will travel
in, with furniture and decorations
in appropriate, non-obstructing
areas, Provide a focal point to the
room, often where food and drinks
are placed,

Here are a few innovative ideas
for decking | your home this holi-
day. :

Display gift- filled nuts as
“erackers”: Using a nutcracker,

- carefully crack open a dozen wal-
nuts, breaking them apart along the
middle section only. Take out all
the meat, leaving a hollow shell.

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Fill it with @ small trinket or toy, a
marble, a dime or a message. Glue
the wo sides back together and
paint the walnuts in gold, Display
ina decorative bowl,

Arringe guilded leaf placemats:
To make a leaf placemat, you need
leaves pressed fat and a piece of
thin cardboard. Cut a circle in the

cardboard 16 in. in diameter, Spray
paint the leaves with a thin cout of
gold paint, leaving some natural if
desired, Glue the leaves to the
cardboard, working from the out
side to the centre, overlapping the
leaves in consecutive circles to
cover the mat, As one layer is posi-
Uoned, glue in place before tiling

Graphic Carol Grenna

Organize decorations around a theme that will suit the nature of
-your guests, if entertaining, the food served and the avaliable
: Space. Base the theme on the five senses.

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in spaces,

Line a basket On a plain wick+
er dinner roll basket, create a fabe
tic liner whieh gathers nround the
basket rin “Tuck a piewe of
Chiristits fabrie inside the busket
with the wrong side up and draw o
line marking the basket edge, Tike
out the fabric, add three in. alt
around for overhang and cut out
the fabric, Sew a double bem
around the edge then insert a strip
af elastic the same length minus
two ine so it Will streteh slightly,
Place it right side up over the bas-
ket and tuck the excess Tabric
inside.

Embellish a napkin holders On
inexpensive plastic or wooden map-
kin rings, glue small pine cones,
Uny fiux fruit, pasta spirals, leaves
and silk roses and cover with gold
or silver paint. Or, use wire to
secure holly, pine cones and a
sprig of pine to each then finish
with a fabric bow, 1 you don't
have rings, simply tie a thick
organza ribbon in a big bow
around the napkin and wire a piece
of holly or a gold painted cherub
on each, The napkin can slide out.
Use fabric napkins for a much
richer look than paper. Make them
quickly yourself using a metre or
two of satin, linen or decorative
cotton cut into squares then
stitched at the edges.

Tie back a curtain: Make a
wreath-like tieback for your cur-
tains using approximately 24 in of
wire which is heavily covered with
fake ivy, holly, faux fruit and bells,
‘Attach the ends of the wire to a

thambtack or tieback hook, Make a:
‘dried Mower lieback using pink

See Decorate page 26

ASK WAYNE

Graduated 1968 from the International
Fabricate institute in Siluerspring, Maryland.

Q: I've heard about white
garments turning yellow.
What causes that. and
what can be done to pre-
vent it?

A: Today, almost all white fabrics
have been treated with an optical
brightener. by the manufacturer to
intensify their white appearance.’
Some of these brighteners are unsta-
ble and will yellow from age, heat,
and light (both natural and artificial),
To minimize this potential for yellow-
ing, never place white garments in
direct sunlight or artificial light while
being stored. Once these brighteners
break down and the garment yellows,
the yellowing is usually permanent,
Caution: don’t place white garments
in the sun to dry or “freshen” because
yellowing will occur at an even faster:
tate when wel.

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SOPHIA WANG (lett and Adole Rankin of Beadworks have
their kiosk set up in Lonsdale Quay. The mini-store should do
a brisk business, as many residents are making their own
decorations this year.