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

Tue Nov 29 07:19:32 UTC 2011

Hi Joyce, good luck with what you can get your hands on with a Christmas 
tree!
Kendra Schaber
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> 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
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> 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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