Show WOMANS WOMAN'S WORLD Personalized Xmas Decorations Will Please Everyone By Ertta Haley PLAN to enjoy yourself to the fullest this Christmas season It Its It's easy to get bowed down with shopping and so busy that you ou just lust wish It were all oil over but you OU can have fun The secret is to plan In advance and never try to do too much like decorating the house all at once or wrapping all your our presents at one time Do your our house decorating bit by bit and with ever every decoration thoughtfully and tastefully placed you'll be saying Merry Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ mas not only to yourself but to everyone who sees lee the final re suit sult As A. for gift wrapping youre you're In for tor fora tora a real treat If you try to be Imaginative Imag image native and creative about the pres eats Dont Don't you like to get presents which look as though they were wrapped for you alone other people people peo pea pie do tool too You'll find real pleasure In giving If you make a special effort not only in choosing carefully but in wrapping with distinction Plan to todo todo todo do two or three presents at a time and your wrapping will be ever so much nicer as well as so 0 much lovelier Those who do a lot of gift wrapping wrap ping will find that it Its It's advisable to save all sorts of cards cars bits of ribbon cards tinsel broken tree I fragments and paper dollies doilies Most delightful packages can be concocted concocted concocted con con- from them Scissors rubber cement cellophane tape ends of wallpaper rolls pins and new rib- rib 9 Milk Meta wrapping gift imaginative bons and papers should go into this carton so everything ng will be I handy bandy Set aside a table to use for gift wrapping as you'll need space for wrapping The box can rest un un- underneath underneath the table as you work Everything that is ready for wrapping wrapping wrapping wrap wrap- ping should hould be assembled so that you need not stop once you start and of course while youre you're in in- Here nere are Su Suggestions For Personalizing Outs Gifts Are Are you ou giving some feminine hankie a or a bit of lingerie You dont don't need a box if you OU will wrap the gift gUt between a sheet of white tissue paper and enclose it In a a. a wrapper made of two paper lace dollies doilies held together by red ribbon laced through holes in the paper and tied in a bow On top you might place a large sticker sUcker of Santa Claus or one cut from an old greeting greet greet- reet- reet lag ing card pasted with cement For musical friends you ou might wrap a present in plain paper and I Festive Card Wreath I t J 1 q ir I l E a t 1 tT I 4 Dramatize Dramatise your our front door with this colorfully different holly wreath to which you yon ou can caD attach Christmas cards card Stiff net or tarlatan In pale pink or green Is s out cut Into holly leaf shapes and mounted on a board Holly folly leaves leave I sequins ribbon and cards complete this gay cay decoration then paste a carol from an old card cardon cardor or ori on top If It desired you can paste ribbon cut appropriately for a staff cleff cleU and notes on top of the box If It you know someone with a favorite favorite favorite flower you ou might be able to cut these out of odd bits of wallpaper wallpaper wall wall- paper and paste on a box wrapped in plain white while paper A spray run through the mid middle dIe and ribbon ties tics on either side are effective Any i child chUd is fond of Santa Claus pictures Aft After r wrapping a gift in plain red and white paper half and half halt make small bows and paste these on the package with Santa stickers Names placed on packages as a decoration are made In several different ways You can buy Individual individual indi Indi- individual vidual letters of course but you youcan youcan youcan can use large size print for cutting t them em out of the desired paper Simply ce cement ent these on the pack pack- age Names can be cut from red cellophane cellophane cellophane cello cello- phane ribbon too Then rhen use cement cementon on the back to put them on the packages r i ii i f t H Hand and ruI nd decorate orl lb Ih borne boon You can also print names with a glue brush then sprinkle it generously generously generously gener gener- with mica snow Inow Let the snow dry on the glue then blow off oU excess Make your own raper Paper For Wrapping Gilts Gifts When youre you're feeling creative TOUcan you TOU youcan youcan can make your our own gift wrapping paper with excellent results One of the simplest ways was to do this is it to u use e plain white while tissue paper You'll also need ruler and colored wax crayons Spread the paper out and make stripes plaids or checks check and other designs too in whatever colors you OU want Some lines should be light and others dark for really beautiful effects Then too you OU might like to make starch paper for gift wrapping For this you'll need white or light colored col col- ored wrapping paper Cut it in a size like inches for ease in making Make a batch of clear thin cooked starch free from lumps and divide Into several different bowls Color each with food color color- ing fag Use a brush or a sponge and spread the starch thinly over the paper Then using fingers or a stick make designs with a free hand clouds trees waves or whatever is II desired You might also like to write messages with the colored starch Decorate your Home Bome With Greeting Cards Just what do you do with your greeting cards Pile FUe them away somewhere after opening Or do you display them so that friends can actually see they were received received re re- re and are being put to a decorative decorative dec dec- decorative use For a holly wreath on which cards can be displayed take a two foot square mat board and cut it shape Pain into a big doughnut green with poster paint Now Nw you'll ard of pale pal pink or need two yards yard green tarlatan sprigs sprIg of holly hOUy se and ribbon Julns and gold green stiff cards cards Cut tarlatan or other net material into holly leaf leat shapes and fit them to the board starting Parting at the Inner edge of the circle and leaving no bare places Wire or tack holly sprigs sprig to the the outer rim overlapped by tarlatan a leaves Attach cards as they arrive with paste or pins Sprinkle tarlatan leaves with sequins and finish off oU the wreath with a bigbow bigbow big bigbow bow tied with two yards ards of colored ribbon Should there be available space above your mantel manlel or on any other wall In the living room or entrance hall use It for a gay Christmas tapestry Let Lei your our Home nome Sparkle Sparke Glitter You can add glitter gutter to your fireplace fireplace fire fire- place by making two large cardboard cardboard card card- board stars tars and covering with metallic green or red paper Mount I cards on these as they arrive If you have bave shadow boxes or hanging shelves In the room remove re reo move the decorations temporarily and use them for Christmas figures fig ures or candles molded Into figures The whole shelf or shadow box can then be wrapped In glistening cellophane cellophane cello cello- phane for hanging You may even want shiny stars on the ceiling of the living room These can be cut from metallic paper paper pa pa- per and suspended with string attacked attached attached at at- tacked to the ceiling with cellophane tape The slightest movement of air makes them sway and glitter I |