HOME DECORATIONS. 
Perfumed Fans. 
While visiting a friend a short time since, I noticed 
the young ladies were making some very pretty little 
fans, and becoming very much interested myself, 
thought, perhaps, some of the readers of the Floral 
Cabinet would also like to learn how they were made. 
They can be used for sachets for handkerchiefs, boxes, 
or for pocket pincushions, and you can make them any 
size from two to four inches in diameter. 
First work some simple design on the piece of silk or 
velvet from which you intend making the fan, then 
cut two pieces of paste-board the size the fan is to be 
and baste your silk neatly on each:' put a small piece of 
holly is perhaps the most satisfactory—large enough 
to cut the case from, its length being twelve inches. 
The enlarged form of the case can bo transform! by 
placing a piece of “transfer papor” on the wood and 
marking the pattern over that with a hard lead pencil, 
or by cutting out the form, laying it on the wood and 
marking around it. Trim oil' the wood to this pattern 
and smooth the edges with emery-paper. This done, 
fasten on the circular piece of plush with glue in the 
position shown by the pattern. The lower end of the 
thermometer should come to just half an inch above 
the circle and be fastened to the case with small gilt 
screws. Trace the pattern to be painted on the wood. 
The Daisies should be composed of white, shaded with 
cotton between, covered thickly with 
sachet powder, then baste the sides 
together and over-hand them all 
around with the exception of a very 
small space in the middle and at the 
comers of the bottom, which must be 
left to insert the handle and cross-pieces. The handle 
is made of a match wound tightly with gold-colored 
silk; the cross-piece, of a broom splint or piece of an 
old fan; these must be held in place while winding the 
handle, then slip the handle and piece in position and 
finish with a cord and tassel made of some color to 
correspond with the embroidery. E. S. W. 
Perfumed Fans. 
gray made from a mixture of crimson, 
lake, blue and yellow, with enough 
white added to make it a tint. 
The Daisy centres should be of 
chrome-yellow shaded with red, and 
the light parts touched with white. 
The rather dark-green leaves are made with Prussian- 
blue and chrome-yellow; the stems are lighter. The 
Clover leaves are of the same green, with a little 
more yellow added and some white where the light 
spots appear; the Clover-tops, with crimson, lake and 
white. When you have finished painting the design, 
screw in the ring at the centre of the top to hang the 
case by, and fasten on the ribbon-bow. Screw the hook 
by which the watch is suspended exactly in the centre 
of the upper edge of the circle, just below the thcr- 
Thermometer and Watch-case. 
The materials required for this little article are: half 
a yard of gold-colored ribbon one-half an inch wide ; a 
small gilt hook and gilt ring; a thermometer four or five 
inches long ; dark-red plush or velvet large enough to 
cut a circular piece three inches in diameter; some tube 
(oil) colors, white, crimson, lake, chrome-yellow No. 1 
and Prussian-blue, and a piece of thin wood—white 
mo meter. 
This case is also prettily made, by cutting out the 
desired shape from any thin wood, covering it neatly 
with blue satin and painting on this any delicate design 
you may fancy. The satin should extend well over the 
edge to avoid using anything to hide the seam, and the 
lining at the back put on with blind stitches, or else 
carefully glued. A circle of dark-blue velvet should 
be fastened on to hang the watch against. L. H. 
