BEADS AND EARRINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

BEADS AND EARRINGS.

A CASE TO KEEP THEM IN

Now that earrings to match necklaces are so popular, it is necessary to have these both together to save time in dressing. Here is en attractive, case which can lie on to the dressing table, with a bone rTng on which to clip the necklace and an earring pocket below. It requires two pieces of cardboard about llin by 6in, joined .by pasting a strip of cotton material between them to give a widely expanding back. These I must bo covered with a layer of cotton

wool, and over this the completed cover is slipped. The outside cover is ornamented with rose petals cut from crepe paper and rolled on a knitting pin to give the curled edge, each petal screwed up at the base to produce a rounded shape. The centres of each roso motif arc of ready-made rose stamens, but they ciin also be made of crochet cotton with scaling wax on the ends, and are here arranged as one almost complete circle and two incomplete circles, a*> they do not look well arranged on a square shape. The petals are most attractive if a deeper or paler shado is used for the reverse. They arc always of two thicknesses of paper, using smaller sections for the centres and, if possible, deeper colourings.

The lining has four rings, four _ big pockets which are just one strip divided up by stitching, and four little earring pockets also made of one narrow strip divided by stitching.

This work is often done in all sorts of colours, but actually the colours of roses, from yellow through flume and pink to crimson, are the safest choice. If these do not quite fit into a special colour scheme, the lining and bow can be of the colour which is specially needed to repeat the scheme of the room or of the toilet set.