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

Tue Nov 29 04:59:53 UTC 2011

Hi Henrietta, thank you! I figured that I should pass on my knowledge about 
Christmas trees for anyone who is interested and wondered how to decorate 
their own Christmas tree. I also passed on ideas for anyone who might need 
them for their own Christmas tree.
Kendra Schaber
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From: "Henrietta Brewer" <gary.brewer at comcast.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Ideas on how to decorate a Christmas 
tree.


> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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