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- From: amz@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky)
- Subject: Re: Christmas tree alternative?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.030431.21334@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- Summary: a radical non-tree possibility
- Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews )
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:04:31 GMT
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- here's a radical but pleasant non-tree alternative...
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- get several decorative fishnets - they come in various sizes and
- colors - and stretch them out *over* a room or two, attaching them to
- hooks or nails in moldings or in door or window or picture frames, or
- to curtain hardware lighting fixtures or whatever, so that they're
- pretty taut. then hang your ornaments on the nets. you're sort of
- *inside* the xmas decorations.
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- no trees. also nothing for cats and dogs to climb onto, knock over,
- or drag around the room. if you have to have lights, these can be
- added with only small amounts of additional cleverness.
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- we did this in our ohio house for years in addition to a tree, then
- instead of one. (during all those years we had a cat and for some of
- them a dog as well.) i came to like it much more than a tree. you
- can enjoy the ornaments separately and together much more easily than
- on a tree. (we have great boxes of peculiar and beautiful ornaments,
- many of them hand-made. cheap jewelry torn apart and strung into
- designs, ceramic oddities, penguins of all materials and styles,
- the blue pig, musical instruments, blown glass, paper snowflakes,
- all sorts of stuff.)
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- now i'm in california for xmas, often with friends in santa cruz
- rather than in our own house in palo alto, and often without my man
- jacques, so decoration is minimal - a collection of fabulous
- glass-bead geometric structures made by my daughter, hung from the
- track lighting (a distant descendant of the fishnet technique). they
- catch the light and reflect it in many colors around the room. we
- also get two or three freesias, for their scent. nothing like
- a classic northern european xmas scene, i realize, but still very
- satisfying in its own way.
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- arnold (who will soon have the columbus shape-note singers
- over for caroling and might *also* get to sing with the
- palo alto shape-note people, if his schedule works out)
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