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Show I "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers WNTJ Features. By NANCY PEPPER ALL PUFFED UP There may be a shortage of powder pow-der puffs in the stores, but there's still a big crop of puffs on your lapels and sweaters, all decked out with yarn or real hair pigtails, and embroidered or button features. Here are some prize puff ideas that have just come our way. HEADBAND HITS It takes nine flat powder puffs in assorted pastel f , colors to make one of the pretti-est pretti-est headbands i you've ever seen. Sew the puffs to-' to-' gether, side by side, and finish each end off with a piece of narrow baby ribbon, attached at-tached with a bow. Tie around your hair in the new Alice-in-Won-derland effect and you'll start a new fad. You might trim up the puffs with buttons, initials or pins. SLICK CHICK And this time, for a change, we don't mean you! We mean the little chicken you can make from two yellow powder puffs, preferably the soft, feathery kind. Use yellow felt for bill and feet and, if you're really patriotic, let your chicken carry a cellophane wrapped war stamp in his bill. Tie a piece of colored yarn around the neck and pin to the lapel of your Easter suit. SEWING BOX LOOT . you're looking for new tricks for 'teens, why not raid the sewing box? Any of these ideas would make swell emblems for your sewing clubs if you belong to one, as so many nimble-thimbles do these days. MEASURED FOOTSTEPS The latest way to make your shoes look varied, though rationed, is to use a tape measure instead of shoe laces. Cut the tape measure in half and tie it the new way, with the bow at the bottom. THIMBLE TRINKETS Multi-colored plastic thimbles make grand lightweight necklaces. Drill a hole in the top of each one and let them dangle from a braided yarn necklace. neck-lace. Do ditto for a matching bracelet. CUT-THROAT GADGET One of the most popular gadget pins that you can buy "for a dollar these days is a miniature scissors made of plastic and wood. Or you can buy a small pair of scissors, tie with a ribbon bow, and attach to your lapel. SPOOL JOOL An empty spool is a wonderful parking place for war stamps. Cover over with cellophane to preserve the stamps and tie two spools together to dangle from your lapel. STRAWBERRIES WITHOUT CREAM You know those little red strawberries that are used to keep needles clean and sharp? They look darling dangling singly or in pairs from your lapel, especially if you stick pins in them. WEIRD WORD GAME TANGERINE A loose-leaf orange. VACUUM Nothing shut up in a box. ZEBRA Horse with stripes; used to illustrate the letter "Z." BANANA-PEEL Food article that brings weight down. ETC. Sign used to make others believe you know more than yon do. HORRIBLE EXAMPLE Any problem In math. MAN The only animal that can be skinned more than once. SOUVENIR Any cute doodad you wouldn't pay a nickle for if you saw it back home. TRIXIE TEEN SAYS Do you look at yourself in the mirror through rose colored glasses? Do you see yourself as you'd LIKE to look not as others see you? You may be able to fool yourself, but your friends won't see a shining wave in your hair if i isn't there. They won't mistake a blotch on your cheek for a rosy glow and they won't overlook the extra pounds you've eaten, on in all the wrong places. Be your own severest critic when you look in the mirror. Before you can correct your faults, you have to see them. |