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Article: Homegrown glitz: simple tomato frames are transformed into elegant Christmas centerpieces.(holiday EASY DOES IT)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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The common tomato frame, stabilizing and guiding winding vines in our summer gardens, takes on an entirely different personality when it ventures inside and graces dining room tables and sideboards to welcome Christmas. With a little paint, a few ribbons, ornaments, greenery, and flowers, you will hardly recognize the humble garden worker.
The frames, available in three sizes (the smallest being 11 1/2 inches in diameter at the base and 41 inches tall), will create the perfect scale needed for a large setting with a soaring ceiling, such as a banquet hall or hotel ballroom, as well as your home. And besides the magnificent scale, ...