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by DENIECE SCHWAB

The table will be filled with family and friends gathering during the holidays, so why not embellish it with beautiful handcrafted items? Perhaps create your own napkin ring, charm ring for the stemmed goblet/glassware, a nameplate, a table runner, table covering or placemat.

It can be a do-it-yourself project or make it a party. Invite family or a few friends over to help create the most fabulous Thanksgiving or Christmas table this year. Find your tote of ribbons, card stock, thin-gauged wire, a few colored buttons, pipe cleaner, beads from an old piece of jewelry and fringe off a table covering you don’t use anymore. That should give you a very good start for handcrafted items.

First project: napkin ring. Cut a piece of card stock (your choice of color) into a 1 1/2-2-inch x 5-inch rectangle. Glue or tape the two shortest ends together to make the circle or ring. Embellish the ring with ribbon, fringe or pipe cleaner, beads and/or buttons, glitter glue and then add a guest name somewhere on the ring......

For more instrcutions go to -  http://www.sidneyherald.com/articles/2009/11/24/features/homespun/doc4b0c588f7e775707831793.txt