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Or maybe you're looking
for an idea to spark up your
home’s entrance for a dinner

~ party?

Here’s a fun and simple
idea ‘to light up your guests’
path to your door.

These torches are easy to
assemble and you can spray
them any color to match
your, home.

Materials:
Thin bamboo stakes

‘Glue and glue gun

Spray paint :
Green Spanish moss
head ‘nails ° (3-4”

Jar lids

Chicken wire

Cut the bamboo stakes
into 3-4 foorpicces ailowing
2-3 inches to stick into the

ind. ‘

Take you ‘chicken: wire

t0- 4x4 ‘square

Carefully: hammer a ‘nail

-and = give

through the middle of the lid
(facing up), the centre of one
piece of chicken wire and
into one end of the cut bam-
boo stake.

You should be left with a
bamboo stake that has a jar
lid attached to one end and
chicken wire in berween the
jar lid and stake.

Now vcu are ready to
spray paint the whole thing.

Black is a nice choice to
give the effect of wrought
iron. Dark brown is another
nice choice to blend into
your garden,

Once the paint is dr, take
your glue gun and glue your
candleholder into the jaz lid.

Decorate the outside rim
of the jar lid and chickes
wire with Spanish moss.

Insert pieces of ivy all
around the tid and through
the chicken wire. For an
added touch wrap your stake
pole in one long piece of ivy
that trails to the ground. .

These torchcs. are stup-
ning in evening hours
your - home's
entrance 3 beautiful glow.

—~ Barb Lunter lives in
West Vancouver. Catch her
home idens on Rogers Cable’s
Plugged In! If you have any.
questions for Barb, or any of
your own Home Ideas, send.
them to the North Shore News,
1139 Lonsdale Ape,
V7M 2H4, Or fax thein to
985-2104. .

I

NV.’

Sunday, September 20, 1998 ~ North Shore News — 41

From page 40

The event is one of the fall
gardening workshops
offered by the West
Vancouver Community
Centre. For information
about this and other pro-
grams, call 925-7270.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

WV parks superintendent
Bill Reid will guide partici-
pants through the steps to
create a hanging basket full
of multi-coloured pansies
from 9 to Tl am.

The fee for the work-
shop is $42.80 and includes
supplies. The event is one of
the fall gardening work-
shops offered by the West
Vancouver Community
Centre. For information
about this and other pro-
grams, call 925-7270.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4:
The. Vancouver African

Vioiet Club is holding its,

annual Open House and
Plant Sale from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m, in the. Floral Hall at’

Seymou

the Van Dusen Gardens,
Oak Screet and 37th
Avenue, Vancouver,
Admission is free.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER
25: The Ikenobo {kebana
Society of Vancouver is
holding a flower exhibit
and public demonstration
by Professor Keiko
Miyamoto, ‘visiting from
headquarters in Kyoto,
Japan. The demonstration
begins at 1:30 p.m. at the
Van Dusen — Borenical
Garden, Oak Street and _
37th Avenue, Vancouver.
Admission is $10. —

OCTOBER 31&

is

its Late Flowering Chrys-.
anthemum Show from 1 to
5 p.m. on Saturday and_10°
a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday
bloom sale will begin -at4-
p.m. on Sunday) “at -the:

Dusen B: al G:

at. 37th“ and=-Oak