Times-Advocate, 1979-12-12, Page 7 (2)•
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Lr41'1- Decorations ... just take time
CHRISTMAS DECOR - Among Annie Morenz's creations are
a quilt bat snowman and Santa's boot. She also makes a
Christmas tree out of salmon cans spray painted gold and
decorated with tiny ornaments. '
Making your own
Christmas decorations has
become almost as important
as doing your own Christmas
baking. A family has grown
to appreciate a mother who
can hang her own wreath on
the door as much as one who
can create her own fruit-
cake.
Some women get par-
ticular satisfaction out of
making their decorations
from things they have
around the house, or things
they've collected them-
selves. "I enjoy making
decorations out of things that
THE VERSATILE EGG CARTON — Christmas trees, candles, flower arrangements and lit-
tle doves to hang on trees can be made from egg cartons. Annie Morenz also makes the
waste basket of the rear which she gives as Christmas gifts.
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HAND MADE DECORATIONS — Hazel Williams is shown in the mirror of her antique
sideboard Mrs Williams made o sleigh in ceremics class and a wall hanging at o basket
weaving course
Kippen ladies plan event
By MRS. RENA CALDWEII
Kippen East Women's
institute will hold the
Christmas meeting at the
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home of president Mrs. Dave
Triebner Wednesday,
December 19 at 8:30 p.m.
Rev. Robert McMullen will
speak.
Persona Is
The Cooper Family held
their Christmas party in
Huron Centennial School
Saturday. Kippen U.C.W
catered for the event.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jones
visited recently with Mr. and
%trs. Art Ashworth. ilderton
Mrs. Nelson Hood has been
a patient in University
Hospital, London.
Sympathy is expressed to
Ifoward Dayman, his wife
and family in the death of his
mother Mae, Mrs. Joseph
Dayman, a former resident
of the Kippen area.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Love,
Caro, Michigan attended the
Cooper family get-together
in Huron Centennial School,
Saturday.
Mrs. Steve Pine and Sheri
Lynn, Brampton also at-
tended the Cooper family
party.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Yamamoto and girls,
Strathroy visited Kpren's
parents Mr. and Mrs. Ron
Littleton over the weekend.
other people would throw
away,' Annie Morenz says.
Making your home look
festive during the Christmas
season doesn't take a for-
tune, just some extra time.
Jean Hodgins of Clandeboye
uses pine cones and other
evergreen cones to come up
with her decorations. Mrs.
Hodgins says that she herself
collected most of the cones.
She says that after a while
you get to know where the
best cones can be picked up.
Now that she's noted for her
cone wreaths, many friends
save cones for her. She has
even had friends bring back
cones that are a little dif-
ferent from places such as
Florida.
Mrs. Hodgins uses no less
than 10 different kinds of
cones in one wreath. She
uses a countless number of
each kind.
Mrs. Hodgins buys the
large wire frames from a
florist for the making of her
pine cone wreaths. She
wraps the frame with old
panty hose and then the
various cones are glued on. A
very important tool for the
job is Mrs. Hodgins electric
glue gun. This gun -shaped
device melts glue pellets
which can then he squirted
out in globs. The glue dries
much faster than regular
glue.
Mrs. Hodgins keeps adding
cones until every bit of the
frame is covered. Then she
uses small cones and
tamarack buds to cover up
all the glue, and then adds
such things as walnuts,
chestnuts, acorns and dried
flowers. Status, tiny white
dried flowers, are used to fill
in the last holes and the
wreath is completed with a
velvet how.
Mrs. Hodgins has another
cone item which has proved
very popular. She calls it her
kissing ball. A styrofoam
ball is covered in pine cones
and tamarack buds and hung
up by a red velvet ribbon.
Underneath the ball she puts
a sprig of mistletoe.
Other small Christmas
tree ornaments can be made
from the pine cones --such as
angels and little snowmen on
skis. Bits of cardboard and
felt help with the creation of
these.
Down the road from Mrs.
Hodgins, Hazel Williams
makes her own decorations.
After taking a basket
weaving course, Mrs.
Williams decided to turn her
talent into Christmas items.
Red velvet ribbon was woven
into a plate and turned into a
wall hanging after a few
Christmas ornaments were
added.
Ceramics classes also
provided Mrs. Williams with
more Christmas
decorations.
Annie Morenz near Dash-
wood has made many of her
Christmas decorations from
things that she would nor-
mally throw away, or things
she can gather up herself.
She is very proud of a Yule
log that she has had for a
number of years. The log is a
piece of birch, and she keeps
it looking clean and fresh by
peeling off some bark every
so often. The log is decorated
by pine sprigs and holds a
candle.
Another of her own
creations is a Christmas tree
made of salmon cans. The
empty cans are mounted on
a piece of plywood in the
shape of a Christmas tree.
They can be spray -painted
gold or silver and then or-
namental balls and
decorations are put in each
can.
Mrs. Morenz has a wreath
madc of quilted fabrics. The
pieces of material are left
over from sewing projects.
Any number of small items
can be turned into tree or-
naments. Mrs. Morenz
strings up life saver rolls to
make little elves to hang on
her tree.
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A favourite ingredient that
Mrs. Morenz uses in the
making of Christmas
decorations is the egg car-
ton. Styrofoam egg cartons
can be made to look like
CHILDREN'S FAVOURITES — Annie Morenz strings together
a roll of life savers and a styrofoam boll to make these tree
ornaments which she says ore popular with the kids.
FOR YOUR DOOR -- Jean Hodgins shows one of her thick,
full cone wreaths Each cone or nut is glued in place, and then
she sprays the wreath with Laquer.
THE MAKINGS OF A KISS -- A styrofoam ball, a variety of
pine cones, a sprig of mistletoe and some ribbon make up one
of Jean Hodgins" k•ssing bolls.
What a 1ogetV
to saY
candles or tiny Christmas
trees. She makes doves to
hang on a Christmas tree.
and table centrepieces. For
most of these jobs alt that is
needed is glue, scissors and
maybe a bit of wire.
Church plans
Christmas play
Emmanuel Baptist Church
in Exeter presents "An Old
Fashioned Christmas" in
choral music on Sunday
evening December I6• at 7.30
p.m.
Children's voices as well
as adults will be featured
parts of this Christmas
musical.
Sunday morning, at 11
a.m. the Sunday School
children will present "The
Thrde Gifts of Christmas" by
Ellen McKay Trimmer. A
portion of God's Word will be
given to each child present.
Times- Advocate December 12 1979
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