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Jan.

WOMEN AGLOW.

Madge Bowes, editor of Christian Info,
will be the guest speaker at the meeting of
Women Aglow starting at 9:45 a.m. in the
Sidney Seafood banquet room on 5th

Street, Sidney. $3.50 admission and
refreshments. No babysitting available. Info,
Tina, 479-8434.
DIABETES AUXILIARY

Peninsula Diabetes Auxiliary, 7 p.m.,
clinic lecture room, Saanich Peninsula
Hospital. Guest speaker, Jean Austen of
Victoria branch, Island fund raising co-
ordinator.

OCEAN TALK
Free seminar series at the Institute of
Ocean Sciences, 2 p.m., in the auditorium,
West Saanich Road. Chris Bames, Centre
for Earth and Ocean Research, UVic, on
future directions for the centre.

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Jan.
DEEP COVE FOLK

Deep Cove Folk meet at 8 pm at St

John’s United Church, 10990 West Saanich

Rd. Featured performer is Deb Maike of

Duncan. $2.50 admission includes refresh-

ment. Info, 655-1225

Jan. 15

GREEN THUMBS

Sidney and Saanich Peninsula Garden
Club meets at 7:30 pm: in the Margaret
Vaughn-Birch Hall in Sidney. New mem-
bers welcome. Guest speaker Aileen Hea-
den of Elk Lake Garden Centre on garden-
ing in small spaces. 1990 dues now paya-
ble. Info, Ben Richards, 656-4023.

SHOP SMART

Smart shopper nutrition tours will be
held at the Sidney Thrifty store Jan. 15, 16
and 17 at 9 am and Jan. 18 at 7 pm. The
free 90 minute tours help people make
nutritious choices when shopping. Pre-
registration required, call 479-7161.

CAREGIVERS

Caregivers Evening Support Group
meets 7 to 9 pm at Mt. Newton Day Care
Centre. Led by Barbara Brown. Info, 652-
9666.

Jan. 17
BLOOD. NEEDED
Red €ross Blood Donor clinic at Sidney.
Elementary School from 2 until 8 pm,
co-sponsored by the Sidney Rotary Club.

NEW IDENTITY

~ An eight-week course addressing the
grieving process of separation and divorce
begins. Jan. 23, 7 to 9:30 pm, at St.
Stephen’s Hall, off Mt. Newton XRoad,
Saanichton. Fee is $10. For info, call Janice
at 652-4311 (days) or Margo at 652-5645
(evenings).(1)

B.C. ON ICE
Program on changes in B.C plants and
animals since the last ice age, presented by
Dr: Richard Hebda, head curator of Botany,
B.C. Museum, in the Newcombe Theatre,
675 Belleville Street. The 90 minute pro-
gram starts at 7:30 pm Jan. 10.
UNDER SAIL
Program by Victoria’s Gene Williams
based on his 11-year worldwide sailing trip
in the Newcombe Theatre, 625 Belleville
Street, at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds to Big
Brothers and Big Sisters. Jan. 11, Mediter-
ranean, Egypt to south Europe. Admission
$5, OAP-students $4. Info, 383-1191.
CASTLE CENTENNIAL
Craigdarroch Castle celebrates its 100th
birthday throughout 1990. Special events
planned, starting with proclamation Jan.
11. Info, 592-5323.
LAST SPIKE
The Canadian whistle stop tour program
on the history of passenger rail and current
transportation issues will be presented at
the Royal Theatre in Victoria Jan. 13 at 8
pm. Info, 386-6400.
KEEP ON GIVIN’

Blood Donor Clinics. Red Cross House,
909 Fairfield Road, 2:30 to 8 pm Jan. 15; 2

to 8 pm Jan. 16. Info, 382-2213.
SYMPHONY SHOWS
A family show featuring vaudeville per-
former Al Simmons and the Victoria Sym-
phony will be presented at the Royal
Theatre Jan. 13 at 2:30 pm. Tickets $5 for
children, $7.50 for adults. Jan. 14 at 2:30
pm and Jan. 15 at 8 pm, the Victoria
Symphony Bach to Mozart classic series
continues with cellist Lawrence Skaggs
performing in the UVic Centre auditorium.
Tickets $11 and $14. Info, 383-9711 or
385-9771.
CLOTH CARE
A program on preservation of old textiles
by Royal B.C Museum Textile conservator
Colleen Wilson Jan. 14 at the Newcombe
Theatre, 675 Belleville Street. Admission
$2, friends $1, 12 and under, free: 90
minutes. Info, 387-5822.
DANCE FEVER
Victoria People meeting People club
holds a dance Jan. 14, 7:30 to 11 pm, at the
Leonardo da Vinci Centre, 195 Bay Street,
Victoria. Dancing to Martin Van. Tickets $6
per person at the door. Info, 381-1941,
479-4303 or 384-6196.
ART DISPLAYS
At the Art Gallery of Greater Victona, on
display until Feb. 4 is a collection of the
gallery's sculpture, including a piece by
Henry Moore and Victor Cicansky’s clay
Sergeant Preston’s Centennial Mug. Also
on display until Feb. 4 are poetic tempera
paintings by Pehr Halsten.
“OLD MASTERS
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria exhibit of
36 Old Master paintings from the Agnes
Etherington An Centre, Queen’s Univer-
sity. Includes outstanding paintings from
the 16th to 18th century. Exhibit at the
museum until Feb. 5; donor Dr Alfred
Bader will give a tour and two lectures
about the Collection Jan. 14, from 1 to 5
pm. On Jan. 28 at 2:30 pm, Dr. David
McTavish will present a slide show and
discussion on the collection.(49)
FOLK ART
Exhibit of Japanese folk art at the
University Centre Gallery, UVic, from Jan.
14 to Feb. 25. Included are hand woven
textiles, ceramics and paper mache loys. Ih
the MacPherson Library Gallery is dis--
played work by visual arts graduate stu-
dents until Jan. 23.
SUSTAINED SEMINARS
Seminars on sustaining a food supply,
offered by the University. of Victoria, from
8 to 10 pm in room 159, Begbie Building.
Jan. 15, the B.C salmon industry, with Jim
Anderson of the Ministry of Fisheries and
Bob Reeve of the Pacific Trollers Associa-
tion. Admission $2, students-seniors $1.
Info, 721-7355 or 721-7354.
: 55 ALIVE
Program to help older drivers improve
their skills offered by the Vancouver Island
Safety Council starting Jan. 15 and 17. Info,
478-9584.
COUVELIER SPEAKS
Minister of Finance Mel Couvelier will
be the guest speaker at the Jan. 16 luncheon
meeting of the Greater Victoria Chamber of
Commerce, 11:30 am, Harbor Towers
Hotel. Info, 383-7191.
YOUTH ORCHESTRA
The Queensland Youth Orchestra per-
forms in the UVic Centre auditorium Jan.
16 at 8 pm. Tickets $8 adults, $4 seniors-
students. Info, 477-3870.
SIBLINGS SOUGHT
Big Brothers and Big-Sisters needed.
Next info night Jan. 16, 7 to 9 pm,
103-3347 Oak St, Victoria. Space is lim-
ited, sO pre-registration required at 383-
1191.
AMNESTY
Death squads in El Salvador will be
discussed at the Jan. 16 meeting of
Amnesty Intemational, starting at 7:30 pm,
106 Superior St.

SWIMMER?

Swim buddy required for lady, please call
volunteer services, 656-0134 if you can
spare a few hours each week in this
valuable way. Include volunteering in your

New Year’s resolutions!
CLUB UBU RE-OPENS
On Jan. 8, at 6 p.m., teen drop-in centre
on Oakville reopened, call Bill Scott,
656-0134 for more info. -
PEP
Peninsula Employment Project invites
job seekers to register for employment.
Conveniently located at Bevan and 3rd St.,
clients and employers given prompt atten-
lion and assistance, peruse job board any-
ume Monday to Fnday, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, 1
to 4 p.m.

DRIVERS
Volunteer drivers needed in the Saani-
chton area. Please contact the PCA, Mar-
jonie, at 656-0134.

RECYCLING FLOWERS, Theresa Tuttle of Sid-
ney turns summer's blooms into fragant
potpourri. Flowers from her garden, from

TheReview Wednesday, January 10,1990 — A20

friends and wild flowers are all combined
with scented oil to create different pot-
pour mixtures.

spring scent arrives
via recycled flowers

by Valorie Lennox
The Review

Rose petals, straw flowers, sta-
tice, lavender, geraniums, bachelor
buttons and scented oils — these
are the tools of Theresa Tuttle’s
craft.

In summer drying rose petals are
spread on newspapers scattered
throughout her Sidney home. Also
there are flowers from her own
garden — delphiniums, marigolds,
Statice and lavender — roadside
finds and wild rosebuds collected
on expeditions with her two-year-
old son.

Friends, relatives and neighbors
contribute blooms from their gar-
dens. “Sometimes I go out the
front door and there’s a bag of
petals or a-jar of some flowers
someone thought I might be able
to use.”

In the winter donors are repaid
with scoops of fragrant potpourri,
enclosed in lacy sachets or loose to
scent a room.

“It’s almost like recycling. You
can look at the flowers when
they’re fresh and nice, then dry
them and they’ll last forever.”

The dried flowers are combined
and scented with oils to produce
different mixtures: spring bouquet,

Strawberry, orange spice, peace,

lavender and country rose.

Scented flowers are treated with
a fixative. The scent lasts for six
months and can be refreshed by
oils.

‘You can look at
the flowers when
they're fresh and
nice, then dry
them and they'll
last forever’

She uses the potpourri in old-
fashioned scented hoops, in
sachets for clothing or sheets and
to create scented hot pads which
release their fragrance when used.

“I personally like potpourri. It’s
nice to have in bowls but it is also
pretty to have the hoops to hang in
bathrooms, the sachets in drawers

OF Deen sheets. It’s very femi-

nine.’
She also makes scented dried
flower wreaths, crafting her own
bases from dried grapevines.
The potpourri provides a more
natural air freshener than commer-
cial products and has an added

aura of old-fashioned romance, she
said.

“Everyone wants their home to
look nice and to smell nice.”

She started making potpourri
two years ago. Her favorite refer-
ence is The Scented Room, a book
which provides recipes and the
history of the craft.

Tuttle experimented with the
recipes and with different flowers.
“1 experimented to see what dries
and holds its color, what falls apart
and what goes to seed.” cy

Combinations range from flow-
ery scents to spicier potpourn for a
den to herb-laden soothing fra-
grances.

In addition to making gifts,
Tuttle sells loose potpourri and
scented creations each year at the
Peninsula Community Association
Christmas craft fair. She starts
sewing sachets and making
wreaths from the dried flowers in
September, often working until 1
a.m. after her two children are
asleep.

For her home she does needlew-
ork, knitting, makes fabric lined
baskets and clothes for her year-
old daughter and two-year-old son.
She works part-time as a dis-
patcher for Central Saanich.

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