Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, November 19, 1977, Image 56

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    —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 19,1977
56
Holiday decorations featured at
By KENDACE BORRY
LANCASTER - “How to
Make Interesting Holiday
Decorations in your Home”
was the subject of a lecture
and demonstration given for
the ladies as part of the
program of the NEPPCO
Expo ’77, held at the Host
Farm Resort, Lancaster,
Two arrangements that would add to the beauty of any home were made by
Mrs. Oberholtzer, one with a candle, the other in a cup and saucer. The little owl
watching in the front was made from a pinecone craft.
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Pa. Speaker for the Tuesdaj
luncheon program was Mrs.
Rhoda Oberholtzer, head of
the floral design and craft
department at Stauffer’s of
Kissel Hill.
Taking a variety of natural
and artificial materials,
Mrs. Oberholtzer showed her
audience ways of adding
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beauty to their homes in the
forms of centerpieces,
decorations, and
arrangements. Demon
strating what she was domg
while talking, she explained
how differnt materials add
to each other’s at
tractiveness, and give a
pleasing effect to the eye.
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One centerpiece that she
made started with a large
pineapple placed in the
center of a platter, with
some evergreens placed
around it. To this, she added
acorns, apples, oranges,
English walnuts, glycerized
oak leaves, pine cones,
bittersweet, and cat tails,
along with a piece of red felt *
formed in the shape of a
turkey gobbler’s head to
create the impression of a
large turkey sitting on the
table.
Mrs. Oberholtzer ex
plained that when she waxes
her fruit, she first puts a pick
in the fruit, then melts
candle wax. The was is then
allowed to cool slightly, and
the fruit is dipped into the
wax, usually about three
tunes.
All the greens and leaves
are glycerized, with most of
that work being done in
August and September,
when the plants are not
dormant as they are now.
She used two parts hot water
to one part glycerin, plus the
color dye she wants to do the
job.
Corn husk decorations
were shown by Mrs.
Oberholtzer, including
wreaths, dolls, and flowers.
To make a corn husk flower
on a pinecone, the following
directions were given.
First all corn husks were
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