[Nfb-krafters-korner] Ideas on how to decorate a Christmas tree.
Blindhands at aol.com
Blindhands at aol.com
Tue Nov 29 06:44:18 UTC 2011
Kendra
Fantastic description. I wantto check on my front porch to see if my
husband tossed out our Christmas tree. We did have a nice large one that fit
in our living room on the first floor, but I moved up to the 3rd floor
apartment [my husband says I live in the penthouse now]so I would have to do
some major changing things around so I don't know if this will be getting up
this year.
My oldest son put his tree up Thanksgiving morning and had us all over for
dinner on Thanksgiving and Christmas we will be all going to my middle
son's house who has the 3 Princesses and my daughter will be there with the
Prince.
I have 2 of the Safety Pin beaded Christmas trees that we have made on my
kitchen counter so that might just have to do it for this year.
Joyce Kane
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Blindhands at AOL.com
In a message dated 11/28/2011 10:39:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Baltimore777 at comcast.net writes:
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 re
al 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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