Examine these designs to duplicate for your fall decorating. Notice the carved out pumpkin in the background and the basket in the foreground filled with autumn’s boun ty- fi/dem Hbo tyemrnle PKome <Sfor LOU ANN GOOD Food And Family Features Editor LITITZ (Lancaster Co.) Bring fall’s beauty into your home to warm the chill of au tumn’s weather. Seeded wheat, leaves in yel lows, golds, and red, and mounds of mini pumpkins and gourds in all sizes and shapes provide glori ous items to incorporate into in door decor. Recently Tina Umbrell Sauder demonstrated how easy it is to decorate your home for fall. Readers may remember Tina as a former 4-H’er who won numer ous grand championships at local fairs for showing swine. Now she is grown up and a designer for Esbenshade’s Garden Center, Li titz, where she taught a recent class. “Your coffee table is your art ist canvas,” Tina said. She sug gests combining textures and col ors to make a design that reflects your individuality. Turn to page B 4 to read why Aaron Ranck believes his agriculture background plays a vital role in preparing him for a role in foreign service. Some of Tina’s tabletop ideas including decorating a mini-ever green tree with miniature pump kins and tree lights. Insert inside a wreath decorated in fall colors. She recommends dipping wooden picks into oil of cloves before inserting into miniature gourds or pumpkins to keep them from from premature rot ting. Tina considers a large glass vase as a staple to use in table decor. Fill the glass vase with tall grasses or shove a berry garland inside the vase and place a fall arrangement on top. Or fill the glass vase with colorful balls or mini-pumpkins. For a stunning fall buffet cen terpiece, glue upside down clay pots together. Insert inside a can dle ring and top with a fall ar rangment. To make a basket centerpiece, place floral foam to extend three quarters of an inch above rim of the basket. Insert groupings of wheat, cattails, grasses, pumpkin vines, and grapes to cover foam and in a pleasing height. For a unique vase, cut a hole in a fresh pumpkin. Insert a vase in side to hold an arrangment of fresh flowers. For a table centerpiece, fill a large bowl with fruit or mix apples, pears, gourds, and minia ture pumpkins in a bowl or bas ket. If you are having dinner guests, create unique name cards for each table setting. Make a slit in mini pumpkins and insert card with the name of guest. Although most brands of hot glue do not hold well in flunctu ating outdoor temperatures, Tina said that Esbenshades sells a brand called Hot Melt Hand Glue that is a higher grade of hot glue and holds well outdoors and in. To see more of Tina’s designs and ideas to inspire you, visit Es benshade’s Garden Center’s home decor and design depart ment. For more information, call the Adamstown site at (717) 445-6055 or the Brickerville site at (717) 626-7007. Pumpkin roll tastes as wonderful as it appears. Serve this spectacular dessert to guests and family. See page B 6 for this and more pumpkin and squash recipes. Tina Umbrell mder combines a variety of textures and colors for fall decor. She holds a buffet centerpiece made by gluing together clay flowerpots topped with a fall flow er arrangement. Insert a colorful orange glass ball inside a candle ring bursting with fall’s bounty. Simply change the color of the ball to red for Christmas holidays.
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