Another clever crafter at the Christmas Arts & Crafts Show in Spokane last weekend was Coeur d'Alene resident Kathy Lieggi. Lieggi creates wind chimes out of old silverware and serving pieces she finds at estate sales, garage sales and auctions. She drills holes in the forks, knives and spoons and dangles them from overturned gravy boats and pitchers. The result is sweet and whimsical and so, so green. Lieggi uses only silver-plate items. "I don't drill sterling (silver)," she says. "It's too valuable." Lieggi's business, Maggie May Collection, is named after her grandmother, who Lieggi says inspired her to be crafty. "She'd have us over and we'd always be doing crafts or painting," she says. Lieggi sells her creations at craft shows and at the farmer's market in Coeur d'Alene. She can be reached at kathylieggi@hotmail.com.

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