In Leland, Mich., Carol Duvall visits Statice Seekers, a shop using dried botanicals to embellish ornaments and make wreaths. Mother-and-daughter team Ruth and Lori Buta run the shop. Ruth demonstrates how to embellish Santa figure with a wreath and hot glue.
Ruth and Lori Buta, the mother-daughter team at Statice Seekers, embellish glass ornaments with dried botanical items.
This ornament is a Styrofoam ball covered with lichen.
Santa is improved on as well. Here, the Statice Seekers use a hot glue gun to add a wreath around the base of Santa's cap for just a touch more festiveness.
Hats & Haberdashery
A few miles from Leland in Sutton's Bay, Mich., Duvall visits a shop called Hats & Haberdashery. Owner and hatmaker Cynthia Koeze displays some Christmas hats she's made, and shares how she makes holly leaves using beads.
A hat designed by Cynthia Koeze.
Koeze couldn't find pre-made holly for this hat, so she fashioned her own from beads and wire.
The designer models her favorite hat from this series.
Resources hats
Hats & Haberdashery
PO Box 383
Sutton's Bay, MI 49682
USA
Phone: 231-271-5226
Fax: 231-271-6312 Guests Cynthia Koeze
Owner, Hats & Haberdashery
Cynthia no longer practices the art of hatmaking. Her shop retails hats from other hatmakers.
PO Box 383
Sutton's Bay, MI 49682
Phone: 231-271-5226
Fax: 231-271-6312 Also in this Episode
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