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Show I - J Page IB North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, November 30, 1983 ' H ' Modem Day Grandma : Moses Holiday Ideas Come Easy to Woman JUDY BLACKNER1 ' Review Correspondent LAYTON Christmas gift se- lection is no problem for this modern day Grandma Moses; she simply paints one up. Maxine McCallum of Layton, mother of seven, who also has 2 grandchildren, has spent the last 10 years perfecting her toll painting techniques. Each year on Christmas afternoon her large family gathers around the tree to see what treat Grandma has in store for them. I really enjoy her artistic abilities, said Joanne Baeur, one of four daughters, Her gifts of love are something I can keep in my family to be treasured and remembered forever All her gifts are carefully selected, according to the individual desires of the person. She may paint a floral design on a wooden bread box for a daughter, an intricate mirror for that ion her list, a puppy dog coatrack for the boys. A delicate fabric-line- d jewelry box will please her teen-ag- e granddaughter, a minature rocking horse for one of the babies or a beautiful scene of ducks in flight for that special 1 son-in-la- According to Mrs. McCallum, toll painting dates back to the early Pennsylvania Dutch, who used it to decorate their homes. It is a technique of painting that consists of transferring a pattern to wood, glass, tin, fabric or even old milk cans and antique bottles or jugs. Then using oils, acrylics or water colors with a combination of brushes and a variety of strokes, you can create a unique style of your own that shows in each individual work of art. Painting has been my salvation, said Mrs., McCallum, who has suffered with severe migraine headaches all her life, It keeps me from thinking about ' my pain by giving me something to do I enjoy. lum. We had a ball, all of us women just painting and gabRaising seven children and bing up a storm. A smiling red nose reindeer working left little time for things I wanted to do, continued Mrs. beams Christmas cheer to all McCallum. Now I am retired who enter Mrs. McCallums home. The stockings are carefuland with my family grown, I intend to paint the rest of my ly hung on a brightly painted Christmas board, while the tree days. Mrs. McCallum attends classes stands glistening in a corner with given by Sharon Peterson, owner visions of hand painted wooden of the Handicraft House on soldiers, Santas candy canes and Gentile street in Layton. Mrs. toys. Mr. and Mrs. Santa candles Petersons ability to teach the art decorate the kitchen table. of toll painting shows in the sucHer mantle displays an anitque cessful work of her students. village complete with lighted The group of painters recently minature homes and snow covattended a three-da- y seminar at ered ponds with Santas sleigh Utah State University in Logan. and reindeer galloping into the They stayed at a convention censky. My mother gave me the ter on campus and were treated village before she passed away, to new and interesting classes said Mrs. McCallum, It was a taught by visiting instuctors tradition at home to set up the from around the western states. village at Christmas, it gives my We learned a new technique home the same warm feeling it of Oriental painting called Sum-i-did hers. which uses water colors on Mrs. McCallums other hobrice paper, stated Mrs. McCal bies include sewing, reading, cro- - REINDEER door decoration greets Maxine McCallum and guests to her home. O at; dieting and knitting. All the to quitting business sales to get kids have a handmade sweater, bargain on picture frames or to t ; ; too, said Mrs. McCallum, I find something different or un-- ;t paint all summer and spend my usual to paint on. winters traveling in the southern Whenever a rough board needs;; states; thats when I get all my some sanding, glueing or fixing knitting done. 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