BIS-Lanctttar Fannino, Saturday, Dacambar 12, 1987
Hobby horses are also as*. p, alls,
Betty says proudly. All the horses are also personalized with the toddlers name
burned Into the wood.
Busy Hands, Creative Minds
And Sharing Hearts
ROBIN PHILLIPS
Berks Co. Correspondent
MERTZTOWN —Busy hands,
creative minds, and sharing hearts
not only describe Santa and Mrs.
Claus, but also Charles and Betty
Biehl, Mextztown. This Christmas
season, as well as throughout the
year, will find them busy in the
Biehl wood shop creating beautiful
cedar chests, hobby horses, and
custom made furniture, all which
Betty personalizes for each
customer.
When not needed to help her
husband, Betty is occupied in her
kitchen turning out delicious treats
for friends and keeping Lancaster
Farming well supplied with
mouth watering recipes. With a
linn commitment to wasting none
of life’s precious time, this crea
tive couple utilizes all of their
resources and enjoys spending
their time together.
Right now, much of their time
together involves completing the
many furniture orders in time for
Christmas. Charles Biehl has a full
time furniture making business in a
wood shop behind the couple’s
cozy home.
Always enjoying working with
wood, Biehl began his hobby -
turned business, soon after the
couple was married in 1969. Some
of his first projects included Bet
ty’s kitchen cabinets made to fit in
her much desired “old fashioned”
kitchen. “I wanted my mother’s
old sink, so Charles made the
cabinets to fit the kitchen.” Betty
states. Another project was a china
cupboard in die kitchen to fit Bet
ty’s need. Soon a picnic table was
added to the couple’s inventory.
BiehTs full-time job as a home
builder limited much of his hobby
time working, but when the build
ing business started to slow up in
the early 1980’s, and lay-offs were
becoming more and more com
mon, Biehl capitalized on his skill
at woodworking and turned his
business into a full-time occupa
- u. That was five year’s ago and
wchl does not have lime tb' miss
the ladder climbing, rppf work and
unreliable hours of his former
occupation. He ia too busy turning
out over 37 different pieces of fur
niture. made to order, from dus
Describe Biehls
tamers throughout the Eastern part
of the United States. He uses his
own patterns and painstakingly
sands, and varnishes each piece
many times to meet his high stan
dards for a finished piece.
As Charles is busy creating die
furniture, Betty is by his side per
sonalizing each piece with the
name of the new owner, die date
the piece was made, and the Biehl
signature, with her wood burner.
She also assists in painting or varn
ishing each piece as needed.
Never at a loss for new ideas,
Betty uses her homemaking crea
tivity in the woodshop too. With
the cedar shavings left over from a
cedar chest project, Betty sweeps
e# coll g js and stands with her large
col. ipn of "Home on the Range" recipes from Lancaster
Farming. She stands In front of the china cabinet that her
husband, Charles, made for her.
them into a pretty, and colorful
cloth bag, tightly ties it together,
and sells diem as sweet cedar balls
to hang in closets or place in draw
ers. The left over odd-sized blocks
of wood from Charles’ projects do
not escape her notice either. She
forms them together to create
unique homes for under the Christ
mas tree with the Christmas vil
lages so often put together by small
children.
Cedar wood scraps are also
made into seasonal ornaments by
Charles and decoated by Betty to
sell as tree ornaments or aromatic
seasonal decorations for the home.
Betty states that she gets many
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Rt 283 - Rheem's Exit
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717-359-4848
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400 N. Antrim Way
P.O. Box 97
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215-273-3131
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103 Cemetery Street
717-584-2106
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P.O. Box 16
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301-734-7722
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301-662-4197
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201-689-1464
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