[Nfb-krafters-korner] Ideas on how to decorate a Christmas tree.

[Henrietta Brewer]

Hi Kendra,
That is a great description of decorating a tree. You did a great job.
Henrietta
On Nov 28, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Kendra Schaber wrote:

> Hi all, I just got off of the Christmas chat. Durring the chat, we discussed about ways to decorate a Christmas tree. I figured that I'd post my way of decorating a Christmas tree as a blind person and make it 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. 
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> The Christmas tree: 
> 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! 
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> Lights: 
> 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. 
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> Christmas tree topper: 
> 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. 
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> Bolbs: 
> 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. 
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> Other ordaments: 
> 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. 
> Real candycanes: 
> 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. 
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> The rest: 
> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> I hope that my ideas have helped you! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. 
> Kendra Schaber 
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