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your Christmas partyware to
your rooms. Whether you
have traditional or contem-
porary tastes it is important
to keep to a central theme.
§. Why not mix colorful
partyware with your own
pottery, china or silver and
turn your table into a vibrant
conversation piece.

6. Flowers, candles, place
cards, and napkins are just a
few of those small httle extras
that help make a good party
into a great one! Remember
— it’s the details that count.
7. A centrepiece is an ab-
solute must. Christmas tables
need a beautiful focal point
to set them apart. Whether
it's the family candelabra, or
uny gift-wrapped packages in
a basket, brighten your table
with style and a= yuletide
spirit.

8. Give a very personal gift
by making your cookies in
Santa, reindeer, Crhistmas
tree or star shapes using
cookie cutters. Then decorate
gaily, and package in one of
the pretty Christmas gift con-
tainers available locally

9. When entertaining, half-
fill Votive candle holders
with white vinegar Smoke
odors will vanish overmeght,
keeping your room tresh and
odorless

10° Christmas dining of cot
tee table centrepieces are
made easy and simple with
ready made candle rings of

and

Best Wishes in °85
from all the staff at the

Rusty Gull

NEIGHBOURHOOD PUB
175 E.. Ist Street

B.C

North Vancouver
meh SAKA

Ricky Yong

Designer ideas for
a special holiday

cones and cranberries,
poinsetuias, pine and cedar
boughs. Place in the centre of
the table, add a one or three
inch candle and voila — a
wonderful and warm glow
lights the room. Store candle
rings for next year and use
with a different colour of
candle in a different place or
way.

1. Add a quick and simple
festive feeling to your enter-
taining by keeping a ready
supply of paper party
napkins and coasters
decorated with Santas, holly,
Christmas trees, snowmen,
or just the traditional red and
green colour schemes.

12. Give your hall or enter-
tainment rooms a traditional
look this Christmas with the
same ageless streamers and
honeycomb bells used by our
ancestors. Twine streamers
around stairway spindles or
chandeliers, hang bells trom
any ceiling outlet.

13. Display your Christmas
cards on strips of mbbon
hung from drapery rods and
curtains, or on either side of
a mantle or stair railing.

14. Just before your guests
arrive, turn down lamplights,
and fight candles placed
around the room for a very
soft light. Lighted candles
also absorb smoking odours
1S For a country look table-
centre, tie a wide red ribbon
or da Streamer on the handle
of a@ wooden six quart basket
and fill with vour favorite
Christmas potted plants

Season’s Greetings

Henry Lum

16. For the busy hostess at
the most social time of year,
food experts advise keeping
food hearty but simple.
Stylized Christmas paper
plates, placemats and
napkins will give your party
an instant timely theme, vet
save on the drudgery of
clean-up.

17. A small inexpensive
favour placed in front of
each dinner guest 1s a quick
way to show your
thoughtfulness. Choose
things like barrel matches,
smal! wooden tree or-
naments, or animal or bird
candles to make those small
decorating touches quick and
easy with emphasis on
Savings.

18. Instead of using a
tablecloth this Christmas, use
paper placemats and = lay
strips of ribbon or streamers
at intervals across and down
the length of the table

19. For gifts that are
awkward to wrap (your own
yams and jellies, a bottle ot
wine, a grab bag) wrap each
1tem in plain ussue, then fill a
Christmas gift bag or bottle
bag allowing loose tissue to
fan out the top.

20. Instead of matched
candlesticks, give a dinner
table more informality by
combining vanous heights.
thicknesses, and colours ot
candles with the same inter
malo omixture of candle
holders

21. Decorate your own
Christmas wreaths with
handcrafted ornaments and

beautiful cibbons to make a
door hanging spectacular

22 Drape pine oof spruce
boughs across the deus
mouldings Add small cles
teacal lights tiny turds couse

balls.) Cranberries bows atic
ribbons itertwined ou thee
branches You tobe surprised
at the festive touehat aches te:

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