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Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 1B
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INSIDE
SECTION
B: EDITORIAL AND OPINION
• UPCOM
ING EVENTS
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This year's "Homes
for the Holiday" tour
put on by Graeagle
Community Church
will be held Saturday,
Dec. 10, between
11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Purchase tickets for
$12 at The Millworks,
Graeagle Mercantile,
Briarpatch in Graeagle,
Park Place Salon and
High Sierra Books
in Portola, and The
Finishing Touch and
Alley Cat Care in
Quincy.
People purchasing
a ticket will be given
a map detailing the
six houses on the
tour as well as the
final destination or
seventh house,
where there will be a
door prize drawing,
an additional prize
drawing and refresh-
ments. There is a
suggested order of
houses to view but it
is up to individuals to
determine which
homes they tour
when.
This is a tour in
which participants
get to visit and
socialize with friends
and see how their
neighbors have
decorated for the
holidays. Many folks
get together and go
on the tour in
groups.
Each purchased
ticket is an entry
into the door prize
drawing. Giveaway
prize tickets ($1 for
one or $5 for 6) are
sold only the day of
the tour at the home
serving the refr.esh-
ments. There are
many prizes included
in the giveaway.
All proceeds help
suppor the Graeagle
Community Church's
youth mission trip.
Ed and Fran Bouillon,
who live in Plumas
Eureka Estates, stand in
front of the Christmas tree
they've decorated for
this year's "Homes for
the Holiday" tour.
You can
...... DECORATING IDEAS,
Don't have a !ot Of fime or money to spend on holiday decorating ?
still have a party-ready house with these quick and inexpensive decorating ideas.
HOLIDAY CARDS
Repurpose holiday cards by
displaying them on a mantle,
stringing them on a ribbon
and hanging them, or
fashioning them into a
wreath. Cut up cards and
use the pieces as place cards
at the table or as labels on
gifts.
WREATHS
Personalize a store-bought
wreath with your own
ribbons, bows, small orna-
ments or found items like
small pinecones or berries.
Think beyond the front door
or over the mantle and,
instead, hang in unexpected
places: the back of a door,
over a kitchen or bathroom
sink, or on the doggie door.
TABLEAU
Group mittens, hats and
winter sports gear ~ snow-
shoes, skis and poles, sleds --
in a corner or on a stairwell
landing for a fetching scene.
Or stack decorative gift boxes
and secure with large ribbon
and bow. Decorative cookie ORNAMENTAL
tins also work well grouped Think outside the tree when
together, it comes to ornaments. Use to
fill glass jars or vases, set a
PLANTS candle inside and display on a
Force bulbs like paper windowsill or bookcase. Hang
whites and amaryllis now for ornaments and faux icicles
Christmas Day color. If you're from a chandelier. String on a
using poinsettias, ditch the ribbon and run up a banister
plastic bucket and place in a or around a newel post.
decorative pot. Group in Hang from fishing wire in a
threes for effect, window.
GO NATURAL SWEETS
Bring in the outdoors by using Brightly wrapped candies
cedar, pine or.fir boughs and and candy canes make for
pinecones on a mantle or in a great displays. Use them to fill
centerpiece, Spray paint pine- bowls, glasses, mugs or vases.
cones in gold, silver or white Sprinkle in small ornaments.
for extra glitz. Display in a Or make candy topiaries using
basket with color-coordinated a foam form.
ornaments. For a dramatic
centerpiece, place candles GLITZ
and ornaments around a The holiday season is all
manzanita branch, about shimmer and shine.
Enhance the effect with
mirrors. A mirror on the
mantle surrounded by glass
candlesticks and glitter candles,
in different sha pes and sizes,
will give that special glow.
BOOKS
Stack holiday-themed books
on a side table or fan across a
coffee ~able. Leave one open
to a favorite passage. Or
display upright on a counter
or bookcase. Accessorize with
related items: say, a stuffed
reindeer to go with a Rudolph
story.
WI'[H 1HE I(IOS
Involve the whole family!
Cut out paper snowflakes
to hang on the tree or in
windows. Pin colored cello-
phane snowflakes on lamp-
shades to glow when the
light shines through. String
popcorn and fresh cranberries
using thick thread and
darning needles.
SHARE
Hang bird feeders to attract
nature's fluttering "decora-
tions." String popcorn and
dried fruit on fishing line
or string; hang in loops on
tree branches. Or smear a
pinecone with peanut.butter
and then roll in bird seed.
Hang with a decorative ribbon
within sight of a window
so everyone can enjoy the
creatures nibbling on their
holiday treat.
Above, a cozy fireplace warms visitors' spirits during the
holiday season. At left, Ed and Fran Bouillon have left nothing
to chance, incorporating festive decorations in corners of their
home to get ready for the holiday home tour. Even ,the bear,
right, has been dressed with a holiday scarf in anticipation
of guests who will be arriving to view the home during the-
holiday tour. Photos by Lonnie Nafzgar