May, 1911 
cut with a small sharp-pointed scissors; in this case, how- 
ever, all forms that are not directly on the folded edge must 
be begun by piercing the center with the scissors point and 
cutting out a small piece so as to give freedom of movement 
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Fig. 2A—“Bleeding heart” design 
If the cutting is begun directly on the line 
One of the stencils, 
for the scissors. 
of the design it is very apt to tear. 
Fig. 1, is marked with a star to show the beginning of the 
inner cuts. 
Then follow in the direction of the arrow. 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
prepared oil colors, dyes, etc. 
cheapest, entailing very little trouble, is the ordinary wax 
crayon used by school children. 
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Fig. 3—Peacock feather design 
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There are numerous stencilling mediums on the market, 
One of the simplest and the 
It comes in boxes of as- 
Fig. 2B—Variation of the “bleeding 
heart” 
sorted colors, and can be blended by working one color over 
another; it can be used onany material, evenon suede leather 
or chamois; when applied to linen, silk or any washable ma- 
terial it is made permanent by pressing with a warm flatiron. 
Home-Built Ornamental Flower Urn 
sional or amateur. Yet the carving ap- 
pears to be rather good. Inspired by a 
series of articles on concrete garden fur- 
niture, which was published in AMERICAN 
HoMEs AND GARDENS not long since, Mr. 
Robert Spinner, of Weehawken Heights, N. J., determined 
to make some experiments of his own. Instead of paying 
$125 to $200 for a large flower urn for his front lawn, he 
of a face was thickly covered with oil and set in a box 
filled with soft plaster of Paris until the plaster set. The 
mold thus formed was then oiled and filled with cement. In 
this way the cement faces were cast, and then they were 
secured to the sides of the urn with pure cement, neatly 
wiped so as to conceal the joint completely. Success with 
the small model encouraged Mr. Spinner to make the large 
urn. All the ornamental features were cast separately, and 
cemented to the sides of the urn. The monkey faces were 
taken from a beer pitcher, the moon faces from a jelly mold, 
Preliminary work and molds for the large urn 
undertook to construct one himself out of concrete. First 
a small model was made, which is shown in the illustration 
at the left-hand side. ‘The sides of the mold were put to- 
gether with screws, so that they could be taken apart with- 
out danger of breaking the concrete. Then a plaster model 
Completed concrete flower urn 
and the spheres were cast in a five-inch copper ball. The 
ball was cut in two, and each half was completely filled, 
after which the two hemispheres were closed one upon the 
other, so as to make a solid ball; a method which obtains 
success as marked as that in the case of the small model. 
