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Homemakers meeting offers Christmas crafts
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By JOYCE BUPP
Staff correspondent
BAIR - “I get my ideas
from everywhere,” admits
Jessie Myers, a talented
floral arranger, craftsman,
and nationally accredited
flower show judge. Mrs.
Myers, of Creston Road in
York, shared her Christmas
season decorating ideas
during the afternoon
program at York County’s
annual homemakers’
holiday meeting, recently.
Now studying for her
master’s degree in floral
design, Mrs. Myers has
served as craft director for
both the York Recreation
Commission and the Girls’
Clubs.
Many of her ideas on
display for the homemakers
incorporated pinecones and
greens, topped off with
colorful ribbons. By wiring
the cones, nuts, dried seeds,
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assorted dried grains, and
glycerized leaves to metal
hardware cloth, the
creations becorne per
manent items that can be
used for many years.
Fastening the assembled
dried materials to a backing
of fresh greens, and tying on
a festive bow created an
instant holiday doorswag.
When glycerizing leaves, a
. frequent addition to holiday
designs, the arranging ex
pert recommends a solution
of Va part glycerine and %
parts water. Lay leaves to be
preserved in the solution and
let them soak until
they’ve turned brown and
leathery.
Dried materials and cones
can also be arranged and
fastened to hardware cloth
for use as centerpieces,
distributed atop evergreen
boughs for inexpensive
holiday touches. Mrs. Myers
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dinners, where there are
many tables to be decorated.
“Many of these natural
materials can be had for
almost nothing,” she
reminded her audience.
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Especially popular this
year, notes Mrs. Myers, are
bells. A very simple to make
swag included in her exhibit
featured three graduated
size wicker bells wired to an
evergreen bough, finished
with a large bright red bow.
Calico fabric is another
important design accessory
incorporated by the
arranger in hdt creations.
The colorful print was shown
in gingerbread boys hung by
elastic thread under an
evergreen mobile-type
swag, a favorite of children
because of the dancing
movement of the figures.
There was also a calico hen
hiding a vase of pine greens,
and a molded plaster rooster
dressed in glued-on calico
scraps. Ribbons from the
brightly-colored fabric lend
an old-fashioned appearance
to swags, wreaths, and
centerpieces.
One unusual craft
demonstrated by Mrs.
Myers was the creation of
artificial fruit from assorted
sizes of styrofoam balls.
Other materials needed are
packets of crepe paper, pipe
cleaners, and paraffin.
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Looks good enough to eat - but it’s not recom
mended. This colorful and long lasting fruit is made
from styrofoam balls, wrapped with strips of crepe
paper, then dipped in warm paraffin to seal.
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