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Natural Crafts
from America's Backyards
By Ellen Spector Platt
 Hard to Find
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Decorate your home with wreaths, arrangements and wall decorations gathered from Nature's bounty. Created from natural materials indigenous to various U.S. states and regions, this book gives clear and concise step-by-step directions for projects ranging from flower arrangements, to jewelry, to table decorations. Includes tips for drying flowers with special Backyard Bits and anecdotes.
Rodale Press 1996,
224 pages, full color photos throughout: $ 27.95
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Tip from Natural Crafts from Americas Backyards:
A large Christmas tree seems to devour ornaments. Ensure you'll have enough by using those materials which you have in abundance. This is a good way to use up your old or faded natural materials that still have structural integrity because by spray painting gold, silver or copper. I choose penny cress over goldenrod to spray because even though I have lots of both, the flat surface of the penny cress reflects the light more completely and gives the paint a higher sheen, perfect to compliment an evergreen.
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