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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi <FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Tatiana,
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<DIV>Feel free to pass the information that I sent to you about Christmas trees.
I gave the information for anyone who was interested. I'm glad that it is a
help! </DIV>
<DIV>Kendra Schaber </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=anisioti@otenet.gr href="mailto:anisioti@otenet.gr">Tatiana
Nisioti</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=artists-making-art@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org">An exploration of art by and for
blind persons</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:04
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Artists-making-art] Ideas
on how to decorate a Christmas tree</DIV>
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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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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Baltimore777@comcast.net
href="mailto:Baltimore777@comcast.net">Kendra Schaber</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=artists-making-art@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:artists-making-art@nfbnet.org">An exploration of art by and for
blind persons</A> </DIV>
<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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