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This beautiful combination would — thistable is made up of a large piece of

look good in any home. The stand for

Everyone loves to have a one-
of-a-kind conversalion piece
and if it’s useful so much the
‘better. -Here you see the
amazing resulls one can gel
from a piece of driftwood.
These pieces were done by Mrs.
Violet Rigler of 946 Paquelte in
Thoruhill. Mrs. Rigler, who is
originally from Prince George,
has-been living in Terrace for

~ nine years...She has been doing
- this beautiful work for five

years, She saw a driftwood

_ lamp in one of the stores here in

' Terrace.
woman, she decided to try her

Being a practical

hand at it. The resulls of her
first try turned into a small
hobby then a small business.

. She sells many of the lamps and

lables that she makes.
‘The: driflwood she uses fs

_ collected along the Skeena

River. After bringing it home It
is lefi lo dry. Depending on its
size it may take up to a year to
dry, After the wood is com-

; pletely cured and dried she goes

lo work on it. ‘Where the wood
grain is wanted Lo show through

itis carefully sanded. Then itis

lrealed with a plastic coating.
She does not use any Lype of

stain because’ she believes: it~

would be a. pliy ta distort the
beautiful grain and the aged
colouring of the pieces. The
coating Mrs. Rigler uses is
Varathene’ plastic coating.
After a light re-sanding and a
second coaling of plastic the
pieceis ready to be turnedinto a
lamp or a.table, -

The driftwood is used as is.
No cutting is done unless a
broken edge or loose piece is
unattractive. Generally, the
shape and size of wood dictales
the style and kind of article
which is made.

If a lamp is to be made a hole
is drilled through it. A piece of
copper tube is then inserted
about half an inch into the hole,
Aboul (three inches remains
outside of the wood, The cord is
then passed up through the hole
and ‘the copper tube and then
attached to the lamp fixture. A
shade is then put on and a piece
of felt glued to the bottom (to
the back if it is to be wali hung)
to prevent the “wood from

scratching and damaging
surfaces it comes into, contact
with.

The tables are made from a
slab cut from a crossection of a

tree. The bases are of drift-.

wood. The wood is treated in the
same way.as that for lamps.
The tops are joined to the base
from the bottom with large
wood screws. Mrs. Rigler lets

cher husband take care of this

joining process. He decides
where and haw many screws
are to be used.

One beautiful combination
lamp and table which we were

‘unable to gel a picture of was

made of-a solid piece of drift-:
wood about three feet long with
projections of about two feet
high at one end. The lamp is
worked in at the low end. The
other end has a flat piece al-
tached which would be perfect
to hold an ashtray or a bowl of
peanuts. In the center there is a
natural hollow thal could hold a
planter,

This charming and altractive -

- plece is well worth the seventy
“dollars that Mrs, Rigler is”

asking for it,

" She has algo worked beautiful
combinations of empty bottles
‘and driftwood together,’ The
bottles are filled with artificial
Mowers. The driftwood lamp is
then fo formed to fit the neck of the

Ut

Mrs. Riglet also does work to
specification. Just a few weeks
ago she was asked to use a,
wagon wheel hub to make a
lamp. Since the hub is hollow
she hung a small bulb inside of
it. Then she placed a driftwood
lamp at the top. The two lamps
work separately so they may be
used singley or togetlier. |

The lamps she makes are for.
sale, They .range.in price from
twenty to thirty dollars. A
small price ta pay for the
beauty of these pieces. ‘If you
would like to buy one contact
Mrs. Rigler.at 635-7629. .

Mrs. Rigler has sold” her.
lamps as far away a5 Ontario
and California, - She doesn’t
devole a set amount of time to

‘this work, She does il as the.”
mood strikes and each plece :

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“the

driftwood set atop a smaller piece.

takes about two weeks to finish.
In addition to her driftwood

. lamps Mrs. Rigler embroiders

and crachets. A few years ago
she won a prize and a ribbon for
a crocheled bedspread at the
PNE.. The bedspread was seld
for one hundred dollars. She
has entered many of her
craations in the Terrace Arts
and Crafts Show. She is plan-
ning (o enter again next spring.

Her husband of eighteen
years also has creative talents.

' He puts empty bottles lo use.

Using a glass cutter he turns
them into glasses and mugs.
These toe are for sale. .

If you are thinking of getting
someone special a novel gift for
Christmas you should see the
Riglers fine valtection of artistic’
sets and pieces.

The have

Riglers two

. children. Jjm, thirteen, goes to

school in Terrace and Dianni,
ten goes to school in Thornhill,
Mrs. Rigler says the children
are more interested in sports
that in the artistic hobbies their
_ parents have, °

-The Riglers ‘would seem to be

interested in antiques as well.
They own a very ‘old clock; the
date on the pendulum is i670.
This and a very old cook book |
given. to Mrs. Rigler by her
mother-in-law’ when they were
married. It is called The
Housekeepers Friend and
copy write date on it is 1897. The
recipes are amazing and so are
measurements for
ingredients.

. Besides being such a. busy
woman with her hobbies Mrs.
Rigler does all. of her’ own
cocking and baking as well as
canning.

Mrs. Rigler would be very
pleased if anyone interested in
her work would phone her atl
35-7629.

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The size and shape of these pieces of driftwood will
decide their. use.

The Riglers son Jim holds what Mrs. Rigler calls
their His and Hers Shillelaghs. They are made from
pieces. of driftwood that were picked up along the
_ Skeena River. ©

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This small table is for sale. In the

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background are pieces which will be Rigler makes from bottles,
used to make others like it. Alsointhe —

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lamp which is made of
driftwood with a bottle of
flowers for a base,

background are some of the mugs Mr.

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