FASCINATING FANCIES.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 301, 15 August 1929, Page 3

FASCINATING FANCIES.

NEWEST CHINA FLOWERS, For Home Decoration. The prettiest present giver to a | little bride the other day took the j form of a set of miniature bowls of china flowers fairy-finin their dainty primroses, cowslips, daffodils, daisies, and crocuses—each wee plant in its own wee bowl. And they can be used as menu holders on occasion. A larger., decoration, suitable for the centre of the table, consisted of a flat basket of beige-tinted porcelain, filled with shell-pink camellia flowers. Min- , ute camellias wreathed the handle of the basket and tender green crystal leaves added their own exquisite note. Yet another fascinating fancy was a curved bowl of blue-green glass, bearing a small china azalea tree, the blos-

soms of which were beautifully fashioned, small enough to have been moulded by elfin fingers! Crystal tree decorations get lovelier every day. One specially delightful specimen is expressed in green and silver. The leaves are made of jade green bubble glass. and the fruits, glittering on tile branches are spheres of frosted silver glass, in which the green is beautifully reflected. It is easy to evolve a somewhat simi- I lar tree with he aid of glass beads I and crystal leaves both of which are j obtainable from shops that specialise I in materials for craft-workers. A twisted branch from the garden should be set in a firm base —an ordinary glass flower block makes a good foundation, and it can be concealed by a. covering of silver scaling wax. Clusters of dif r ferent-sized beads in amethyst colourings .should be depended from the brancli, and groups of the crystal J leaves must be fastened artistically j above the bead clusters. The “trunk” of the tree may be left bare, bound with silver wire, or painted with silver paint, just as you prefer. If yellow glass beads are used to trim the tree, it will look like a laburnum; amethysts will make it appear as a miniature wisteria. \