Re: Snow

That all sounds lovely, Zem.  I always prefer natural or hand-made things.
In past years we have used teasles sprayed gold.  Always lots of pinecones.
And this year we used a bunch of wistaria pods to center a door swag.
I made a row of comic little animals from teasles with seeds for eyes and
nose, pine-cone sections for feet, acorn caps for hat - you get the idea.  
Marched across the mantle..  The member who made all the little birds
is Thai.  She makes the most beautiful things carved from vegetables.
She makes a butterfly from a slice of carrot, and for my birthday brought
a melon carved into a huge rose - hollowed out and filled with cutup fruit.
Totally creative.
Auralie

In a message dated 12/06/2004 6:48:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Zemuly@aol.com writes:
Auralie your decorations sound beautiful -- especially the dried baby's  
breath.  We decorated the tree at the Ag Experiment Station with ornaments  
made 
from natural materials.  We used dried hydrangea blossoms that had  been 
sprayed gold to fill in.  Our ornamental horticulturist is so  talented, and 
he made 
all the ornaments from dried flowers and seeds.   Some were balls covered 
with purple millet seeds, and there were others covered  with soy beans.  The 
tree topper was a sunburst made from purple millet  seed heads sprayed with 
copper paint surrounding the golden hydrangeas -- just  beautiful.  He had 
also 
sprayed bunches of dried gingko leaves with shellac  and glued small red 
berries 
with dried green leaves where their stems  crossed.

zem

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