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Show To Buy or Make 1 for Christmas! j Sealing Wax Plaque X -r Plaques done in bas-relief are tha newest development in sealing wax craft One needn't be a skilled artist to accomplish exquisite results. These designs are built upon pictures cut from decorated crepe paper, wall paper pa-per or magazine covers. The flowers, or birds or whatever the picture, are built up of soft sealing wax, using a heated thin palette knife. College and fraternity insignia plaques mada in this way are handsome. For the Bachelor's Den For many this Christmas Is going to make a reality of that oft-dreamed wistful dream, "When my ship comes j In." It is all due to the conspicuous part that ships are now playing as a j decorative feature in modern home interiors. There are ships and ships I to be had. some of brass, some of j. i glass for table appointments. The bachelor who glories in a well-furnished den would feci honored to receive re-ceive this candlestick which embodies a ship in its design. I . . A Hand-Blocked Scarf f t ; Oh dear, there's Dorothy and Betty Jane. Bhyllis and Sister May and mother and Aunt Mary and Cousin Eloise still on the Christmas list! It's an S. O. S. call sent out for girt suggestions. sug-gestions. A hand painted or hand-blocked hand-blocked scarf for each? The very thing! It's heaps of fun painting them one's self, but if one hasn't the leisure, the specialty shops and neckwear neck-wear departments are featuring hand-painted hand-painted articles, nt prices very reasonable. reason-able. Squares and triangle shapes which yield to such nonchalant knotting knot-ting about shoulders and throat compete com-pete with the oblong scarf. Scissor Painted Basket jFEopyiiTi i T"',"' ' " vmm" ' A "scissor painted" waste basket cinkes nn acceptable yulotlde girt for man, woman or child. One cuts pie tures out of illustrated crepe paMr, which costs but n tritle for it whole roll. After the back ground' of the papier pa-pier macho basket form has been enam-, enam-, clod with seal:ug wax paint, paste ! on the plctntvs cry smoothly. When thoroughly dry tbe whole Is gone over I with a coat of transparent amber scal-i scal-i Int iu paint. While this Is si ill wet , 1 one can. If one chooses, sprinkle ery-i ery-i talllne beads over the picture part o ! give It sparkle. |