Fctrmlng. Saturday, Sepf. 11, 1976
Use up excess food containers with junk lamps
Mrs. Arlene Snyder and her demonstration lamp is a completed
daughter, Sharon, demonstrate hovAr junk lamp painted with flat black
junk lamps are made from various spray paint,
household containers. Beside the
Ladies Have You Heard
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done - like clean clothes or a
scrubbed floor. Pleasant
smelling products also are
more enjoyable to use.
Years ago, smells were
added to soap to hide the foul
odors caused by the
chemicals and fatty acids
used as ingredients. The
purpose of the fragrance was
not to please but rather to
keep the product from
displeasing.
But pure flower oils are
expensive. It takes 700
pounds of petals to gather a
pound of essential oil.
Synthetic smells have
recently been developed
which could be produced at
low cost and in large
quantities. Their use has fed
the craze for perfumed
products. At the moment, the
“back to nature” scents are
popular.
Since the late 1960’s when a
lemon-scented dishwashing
liquid was first marketed,
advertising firms began to
emphasize the pleasing
aromas of their products.
The smell-that-sells has
stampeded the market,
especially in the past five to
six years.
Manufacturers now use
smells to make their product
different from competing
products. Some advertising
executives say that with
many products so similar,
fragrance promotion is the
only technique left for use in
selling consumer products.
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LITITZ - Whoever named
the junk lamp wasn’t
thinking dearly. The title
fits in some ways, but the
first impression to come to
mind is that of old tin can? t
scraps of paper, and boxes,
etc., slapped together with
glue or cellophane. And,
although the name arouses
curiosity, it nevertheless
sets up a stereotype. The
lamp has to be what it sounds
like - just a piece of junk.
Doesn’t it?
The answer to that
question is, of course, “no,”
and Mrs. Elvin Snyder, Lititz
R 3, is the one to prove it. A
farm wife and mother, Mrs.
Snyder takes care of her
husband and three children -
Sharon, 12, Scott, 8, and Jeff,
4 - and in her spare time
makes crafts for fun and
profit.
A creative person, she first
got the idea to make the
lamps after seeing one which
had been given as a gift.
After studying it for a while,
she figured out how it was
constructed.
“Then, I got so excited to
make my first one,” she says
with a good-natured laugh,
“that I went out and bought
all the junk.” Again, what
could be so excitmg about
junk lamps that someone
would go out and buy junk
with which to make them?
Basically, their appeal
stems from the fact that
although they are made from
“good junk” found in the
kitchen such as plastic bowls
and bottle caps, they are
dead ringers for authentic
kerosene lamps from a
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distance, and even from then painted. The end result
close up. is a finished product which
looks deceivingly real.
Procedure
The materials that go into
making the lamps are a According to Mrs. Snyder,
small plate, small and large making the lamps is easy
plastic bowls, a saucer, a jar and not very time con
lid, an aerosol can lid, a summg. To begin, start with
small bottle cap, a candle a plate made from plastic or
ring, a candle, and a china as the base. Then, turn
hurricane globe. a peanut butter jar or small
All these pieces are glued plastic (Cool Whip) bowl
together with white glue and |Cont|nued Qn page M|
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