Cl2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 9,1981 Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser There are so many reasons for “celebrations”, but we often let them pass by as we busy ourselves with all the little things in life. Sometimes it takes years for us to realize what we have missed. When a child announces that they did well in school that day, we often are in the middle of preparing a meal and barely acknowledge the news. Or if our husband tells us that the alfalfa is finally planted, maybe our mind is planning the next 4-H meeting and we merely nod in appreciation of all his work. Somehow we let our minds dwell on little details and do not take hold of happy events and turn them into joyous occasions. Our daughter sent us a tape from Seattle, Washington where she lives and shared news with us and our soon-to-be-one-year-old Short & Intermediate Term Farm Loans ••• brownstown <JBALC> AGRI LOAN CORP. (Subsidiary of The Brownstown National Bank) Main & State Sts. Serving Brownstown, Pa. Lancaster ROBERT N. ZOOK 17508 And Lebanon President 717-656-2951 Counties COMING JUNE 6 Lancaster Fanning’s Special Annual FEATURING • Special dairy stories and features • Local Dairy Association news • Latest information for the dairy farmer ADVERTISERS... Get Complete Coverage by Reserving Your Space Now In This Special Issue. Deadline for Ads • June 1 Phoen Area Code 717-394-3047 or 626-1164 grandson’s first words. But instead of appreciating it, I was grumpy that 1 didn’t have 40 minutes to sit down and listen. However, since then I’ve enjoyed it several tunes while other siblings listened to it. And as an added bonus we used the other side of the tape to record a beautiful concert in which my youngest daughter played her flute. Simply seeing the delightful red tulips around the mailbox or the cluster of vivid yellow ones around a tree in the back yard are enough to make me get out the camera for some pictures. It might also cause me to wonder, now that Spring is here, why I’m saving those blackberries in the freezer. So, I take them out and have a big pie for supper. All too soon there is no one to bring home good news from school, *1 * [• Increase your decorating skills This is the second of three parts on Interior Design presented in con junction with workshpps by Dons Thomas, home economist at the Farm and Home Center LANCASTER If last week’s suggestions on color didn’t solve your decorating problems, don’t get discouraged. Good design involves more than color coor dination. Tuesday’s session, presented by Doris Thomas, dealt with com position in decorating. “An orderly arrangement of furniture, color and accessories is called a composition,” Thomas explained. Composition entails symmetry, balance and shape. Balance is a basic to design that gives a feeling of ease because weights and shapes are matched equally. Wien you can’t match parts exactly, symmetry gives you the chance to establish repose. In symmetry, every little inadequacy is balanced by a variation somewhere. If something is darker or stronger or bigger than other items to be placed with it, you can establish balance as long as the other items contain play in a concert for you or even eat the pie that you just baked. Therefore, let us observe these occasions with a bit of praise before it’s too late. Try Our New Concept In Penetration And Adhesion. Average Barn s 6so°° PHARES S. HURST Rd 1, Box 420 Narvon, PA 17555 215-445-6186 USE THE PROS! • Herbicides & Liquid Nitrogen Efficiently & Professionally Applied • Liquid N - Applied With Hi Flotation Equipment & j ; v I BULK'BLENDS | l\wMUSUMtmdam f [ ANHYDROUS AMMOMIA J Pirfhn some quality which makes them stand out with as much importance and emphasis. Don’t place all your plants on one side of a room just because they get the best sunlight there. Instead choose plants that don’t require as much sun, and place them all over the room. Space is another feature to composition. Consider the space you leave empty as well as the space you fill Are they relatively equal? Don’t crowd a room with so much furniture that there is not sufficient room to move about comfortably. A -room appears larger when you reduce the amount of furniture in it. Yes but you have a couch, a love seat,, a chair and three tables that match, so you conclude they just have to go together, right? Wrong. What good will all those pieces of fur niture do you if you’re falling over one to get to another? line inevitably is mentioned in any discussion of composition, because line suggests the direction of the movement, the role to be played by the room or the feeling to be presented. A horizontal line suggests relaxation, calmness, serenity. A vertical line shows sturdiness or strength, and height. Jagged lines make one feel nervous, tense or excited. Viewing diagonal lines results in uneasiness. One line alone is lonely and solemn. A lot of lines are bursting with energy. A CALL US FOR I FREE I ESTIMATES I on TOP QUALITY BARN SPRAY PAINTING BRUNING Years of experience plus self employment gives you quality work for less expense. ORGANIC PLANT FOOD CO. 2313 NORMAN ROAD, LANCASTER, PA. PHONE: 717-397-5152 Hours: Monday thru Friday 7 to 5, Saturday 7 to 12 line dosed in a circle suggests completeness and unity. Lanes with a repeated pattern are predictable. These are just a few of the psychological “tricks” lines can play m your rooms. A final suggestion by Thomas is, “All your rooms should have a center of interest. There must be one place your eyes go first.’-’ Thomas suggests making the center of interest, a grouping of pictures, an usual vase, or a favorite accessory. Don’t limit yourself to the furniture as the center of attention. - If there is no center of interest, eyes will begin to jump around trying to establish some organization or composition in the room. Remember, composition entails line, shape, balance, symmetry and a center of interest Look for not week’s final suggestions for interior design and hints on how to give your home a pleasing ap pearance.—DK STRIKE IT RICH! SELL IT . WITH A LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED ika 1
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