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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi, Kendra, and all, from a new member who lives in
Athens, Greece, Europe:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What a useful ideas you gave me, as a totally blind
person myself, for my Christmas tree this year! Thank you so much,
personally.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>I hope you don't mind me translating this and passing it along to our own
mailing list.</DIV>
<DIV>By the way, this list has amazed me! I'm going to introduce my self as soon
as I find a few minutes, soon, I promise.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Greetings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Tatiana Anastasia Nisioti</DIV>
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<A title=Baltimore777@comcast.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:10
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Artists-making-art] Ideas on
how to decorate a Christmas tree</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi all, I posted my ideas on how to decorate a Christmas tree on the
Krafters' mailing list. I figured that I would also post them here for
anyone who is interested in a few ideas. I figured that I'd post my
preffered way of decorating a Christmas tree as a blind person and
make the tree look presentable. First of all, you decorate a
Christmas tree the same way whether the tree is real or not. You do however,
work with the tree's branch make-up so that you don't have heavy ordaments
falling onto the floor. <BR><BR><BR>The Christmas tree: <BR>I preffer a real
Nobalfur Christmas tree that is six-foot-tall or taller because it's very
stirty and has everything that a Christmas tree should start out with before
decorations. You may also get any kind of fur tree, spruces, seater and a
range of pine trees will also work as Christmas trees. Others preffer a fake
Christmas tree. The hight of the Christmas tree depends on your prefference
and how high your ceeling is. My Christmas tree is a very small fake tree
because I live in a small place where I don't know where to stick a real tree
without major tweeking with the tree itself. I preffer a very tall Christmas
tree with full branches all the way around. I grew up with a six-foot-tall
fake Christmas tree in my living room. I am not an expert in how to put
together a fake Christmas tree mainly because my dad was the one who always
put it up. I do know that it is color-coded. You might have to lable the part
where the color is so that you can code it correctly. As for a real Christmas
tree, I have always gotten it at a Christmas tree farm. I know people who has
gone up into our mountains and gotten their own Christmas trees. I have not
done that yet. Once you get the Christmas tree, you can either put it in its
stand at the farm, in the mountains or at home. I have often put it in its
stand after I got the Christmas tree at its final destanation. Once the tree
is in the stand, you can then put it where you want it to go. A real tree does
need to be watered like any house plant. Once it is at its final location,
then you may start the decorating! <BR><BR><BR>Lights: <BR>I preffer L.E.D.
Christmas lights because they are bright, don't get hot and don't use up a lot
of electricity. I also like to unplug the lights when I am not home or when I
am sleeping because I don't want my tree to catch on fire due to a shortige. I
usually wind the Christmas lights up the tree in a spiral. I preffer
multi-colored lights but a single color or two colors are also fine. On a
Nolbalfur tree, I find that the lights wind up the branches in their own rows
almost as though you were fitting a jixall puzzel together.
<BR><BR><BR>Christmas tree topper: <BR>I preffer a star but an angel is fine.
Some also use birds as well. You hook the topper to one of the light sockets.
If it doesn't light up, you just stick it on top of the Christmas tree.
<BR><BR><BR>Bolbs: <BR>You pick your bolb colors. I preffer many different
colors. Most people preffer one or two colors. The way to do it as a blind
person is to stick two bolbs that are the same color in a diaginal angle
causing them to be in different rows from each other. A hand's with or a
hand's length will do. You want to spread out the color all over the tree so
two bolbs with the same color too close to each other is not the way to go.
You may alternate each bolb color whether it's five or only two as you work
yourself around the Christmas tree. If you are totally blind and don't have an
eyeball nearby that works to help you, putting labels on each bolb of somekind
will help you in a big way. Make sure that there are no bare patches as you
go. If you find a bare patch, put some of your bolbs there in the same way as
you did before. Make sure as you go that the bolb isn't too heavy for the
branch that you are trying to stick it on. A good way to gage it is how it
bends the branch. If it can't stay on the branch or if it bends the branch a
lot, then you might want to concider moving that decoration to a nearby
branch. <BR><BR><BR>Other ordaments: <BR>You may pick a number of other
ordaments for your Christmas tree. I am not picky here. I like divercity. The
same general rules apply with these decorations. Again, make sure that the
branch can hold each ordament. <BR>Real candycanes: <BR>I preffer many
different kinds of candycanes on my Christmas tree. Some people don't put
candycanes on their Christmas tree and others might only preffer one or two
different flavors of candycane. The same rules apply for real candycanes as
the rest of the ordaments. You might want to stick strings and ribens to label
them so that you don't accedently get too many candycanes of one flavor too
close to each other. <BR><BR><BR>The rest: <BR>I don't care whether my
Christmas tree has tensel, garland, strings of popcorn, a decoration under the
tree or without either of them. You get to play the most and still have your
Christmas tree excepted by your sited family and friends. Just make sure that
you wind up your garland and strings of popcorn like the lights that were done
on the Christmas tree earlier. Tensel gets to be hung like small peaces of
string. <BR><BR><BR>Oregon and Washington is where a lot of Christmas trees
grow and get sent from. We send different kinds of pine trees, fur trees,
spruce trees, seater trees and so on. We probably get our trees cheaper than
other parts of the U.S. because of the location of the Christmas trees.
<BR><BR>I hope that my ideas have helped you! Please feel free to pass around
your ideas on how you would decorate your Christmas tree. If you have any
questions, please feel free to ask me. <BR>Kendra Schaber <BR></DIV>
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