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Show Lighted Packages on Your Doorstep Looking for a new idea for your doorway decoration this Christmas? Here's one that will delight the whole family because they'll have an opportunity to watch how it's put together. Drape evergreen festooning, entwined en-twined with colored bulbs in graceful gra-ceful loops over the door. Hang Jong sprays of green topped with bright red plastic bows at each side of the door. Buy or make a huge red and white plaid stocking and stuff with newspaper which has been rolled into hard balls. Fill the top of the stocking with inexpensive inexpen-sive toys. Place two huge lighted packages pack-ages at one side of the entrance step. Here's a tip from General Electric holiday lighting specialists special-ists for an easy way to make these effective Jighted packages. Use the end of an orange crate for the base. Fasten a porcelain socket in the center and insert a 60- or 100-watt bulb, depending on the size of the package. Now, fashion a wire frame to the wooden base to form a boxlike box-like structure. Cover with plastic plas-tic shower curtain-type material, available in yard goods departments, depart-ments, and trim with plastic "ribbon" "rib-bon" in a contrasting color. For additional highlights on the door, hide a 150-watt spotlight spot-light behind a package and aim it at the Christmas stocking. |