HOME-MADE LAMPSHADES.
A MINT FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT PAINT. Two delightful lampshades had been made by a friend of mine as Christmas presents. Of thick parchment paper, they were adorned, one with two gaily coloured parrots, and the other with bright bunches of fruit. "I didn't think you could paint," I said. "Nor can I," my friend answered. "Look again!" Cut Out of Cretonne. When I did so, I found that parrots and fruit had been carefully cut from patterned cretonne and then neatly gummed on to the paper. They looked exactly as if they had been painted, and a coat of colourless varnish helped to complete the illusion. Women who have' not the "gift of the brush," and who feel, that in the matter of home-made gifts their artistic sister has an almost unfair advantage, may like to imitate the idea. Neatness of handiwork is essential for success.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 13 (Supplement)
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149HOME-MADE LAMPSHADES. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 13 (Supplement)
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