DRESSING TABLE FOR THE SMALL FOLK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18629, 26 July 1930, Page 11

DRESSING TABLE FOR THE SMALL FOLK.

The miniature suites of furniture for children’s use are very fascinating. I but they are also expensive, so it 1 may be well to see what can be done lin the way of turning out perfectly ; efficient home-made substitutes. A j miniature dressing table, for instance, fashioned from a wooden packing case, and a few yards of cretonne, may be every whit as attractive as a special shop-bought article. Remove all nails from the wood and smooth the surfaces with coarse glasspaper. Cover the box inside and out with sprigged cretonne, fixing it in place with small furniture brads. Fasten a cretonne covered shelf across the middle, and ail a small square wooden ; blocm to each bottom corner to keep j the box off the floor, j The covered box will stand against ! the wall, with the open side facing the i room, so all you need now is a frilled cretonne curtain on a rod across the . front. The child's shoes may be arranged on the lower shelf, while handkerchief and glove boxes, brush and comb, and j the other. I A little cheap mirror, with its wooden frame enamelled to match one of j the colours in the cretonne, should be j hung on the wall over the dressing | chest, a pretty pin cushion and a small j vase of flowers completing the scheme. | A little three-legged stool might be I painted to match the mirror, and this, I with a round frilled cushion of the ! cretonne fixed on top, will make a I dear little dressing stool. FOR FLOWERS. Here is a charming idea to help you with the arrangement of your spring or summer flowers! Cut a piece of cork or felt to fit into a floating b nvl and scatter it with grass seed, and water just a ! little. When the grass hau .grown, a | few big flower heads look very pretty I among it. j A cork table mat could be used, or | even an old discarded bath mat could |be cut to shape and thickness. It isn’t | necessary that the grass plot is made ■in stereotyped circle—indeed the effect

! is better when the water shows through 'here and there!

| The lovely emerald-green of the grass is So fresh and pretty showing in and | out between the bright flower heads.