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

[Blindhands at aol.com]

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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