5 Things to Know About Japan’s Handmade ‘Washi’ Paper – Japan Real Time | Necklace Box

wears a strapless silver sequin Gucci gown and Cartier jewels to the premiere of Suspiria in London.

Walter Benn, a city employee at the Cobbs Recycling Center, takes a shopping cart full of cardboard boxes to a compactor as Christmas gift bags and boxes wait to be recycled.

The family-oriented fun, meaning no alcohol permitted, runs from 6 to 11 p.m., with fireworks around 9:30. Find out more at the Fabulous Phoenix 4th website or by calling 602-534-3378. Deb Van Tassel

Just got these beauties for my table. Two days till Fall. Can you tell I’m excited? #fallidays #falllover #holidayjunkie

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The groom, son of Heré of Andigné and his wife Marie Adelaide de la Barre de Nanteuil, is Vice President for Energy Derivatives at risk management firm Mitsui Bussan Commodities and looked dashing in his morning suit.

Dad, my older brother and I would select just the right cedar for our Christmas tree. After nailing a one-by-eight board on the bottom, we would place it at the special spot beside the piano. We made our own decorations, except for the 10 large red satin “apples” mother had carefully kept for many years. Our decorations were strips of red and green construction paper (we “borrowed” from school) cut into strips and taped together in alternate colors to make a chain. We popped popcorn and sewed them together with needle and thread; another chain. After wrapping these around the tree, Mom would carefully hang the satin apples, and then came the icicles, small strips of silver paper that was thrown all over the tree. Oh, it was beautiful!

Pro tip: Washi tape isn’t always the stickiest, so anchor the end of your tape at the back of your lighter with a few dots of glue for added security.

"Our hearts are with the entire community of Newman and law enforcement officers across the state who risk their lives every day to protect and serve the people of California," Brown said.

If you want decorations to rival an A-lister’s, all you have to do is focus all your energy and resources on two things: your tree and your front door.

Christmas doesn’t have a monopoly on ugly sweaters anymore. You can celebrate African-American heritage and principles like faith and unity while you light the seven candles in this “ugly” Kwanzaa sweater-patterned sweatshirt.

From the union of European and Latin American aristocracy at Prince Christian of Hanover and Alessandra de Osma’s dreamy Peruvian ceremony, to the three-day Indian and Italian bonanza of Bollywood royalty Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, this year has seen high-profile lovebirds celebrate their marriages in unimaginably elegant style.