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Can you explain your purple and red Christmas tree more,like how to place the poinsettas into the tree?
September 20th, 2006
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Full question:
Can you explain the purple and red Christmas tree more,like how to place the poinsettas into the tree?
My answer:
This is the first year for this tree AND the first time I have done a tree in the manner I’m about to tell you about. This was, of course, an artificial tree - 6 foot tall.
I assembled the tree completely, and then once together, I made 5 “levels” on the tree. I did this by flattening the branches together in five rings, evenly spaced around the tree. When this step was done, if you looked at the tree, it looked like I had 5 “shelves” evenly spaced apart around the tree.
I put three colors of lights on the tree - red, purple and white. I put each color up separately, as if it were the only color going on, just so the tree would have even distribution of the three colors. And I only put lights on the “shelves” of the tree. None on any other part.
Next I put on the poinsettias. I had “bunches” of them, not single stems. Each bunch had about 12 flower heads per bunch. I started with the center shelf (shelf 3 if counting from the top or bottom). I laid one bunch of red dead center of that shelf if sitting on my sofa. Then laid a purple bunch on either side. The height (top to bottom) of these bunches perfectly filled in the distance left when making the branch shelves.
I then put 1 large purple ball hanging in the center of the red bunch, and accented one purple bunch with a red bow and one with a red stem of grapes.
This was now the “design” I would repeat on this and the other four shelves, only I staggered them around the tree so that they didn’t line right up on top of each other.
On the top row, I laid two of these “sets”.
On the second row, I did 3.
On the third row I did 3.
On the fourth row I did 4.
On the fifth row I did 4.
The added a ribbon bow at the top, and all done!
Your Frugal Decorating Diva,
Nancy
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