The Holiday seasons have started, and this year putting up the Christmas tree a bit earlier than Thanksgiving seems to be ok.
Many Aiga Americans put up the Christmas tree during the Thanksgiving dinner, but that American shared tradition this year might be over turned. People want to get the seasonal happy spirits going! The year has been a very long one according to some community, and everyone deserves a good vacation, a few extra dinners out, and better thought out gifts this year.
We also started a few new types of decorations on the Christmas tree as well. The Christmas tree got it’s first Aloha make-over. We started thinking about decorations that could be made or used from the island and found that "Leis" work well. We gathered all the Leis that we could find around the house and even made a few new Aloha decorations of our own. We found Ocean Shell Leis, Kuikui nut shell Leis, Flower Leis, all work great and we strung them across the Christmas tree, calling it our "Aloha Christmas Tree" look.
The Christmas tree looks better than ever this year. If you decide to do a few projects with decorations, we found that Hobby Lobby has some great prices with a variety of project items. Instead of cutting out snow flakes this year on colored or white paper, this year round out the design and cut out flower patterned designs. A glue stick with some sprinkles can make a nice Christmas effect on the Aloha flower patterns.
Small decorated paper frames can be made for little family photos and hung on the tree . The best part about the whole thing is it gave us so many more ideas that we can try next year. We swore we’d try and deck it out even more lavishly next year, and take more photos . Maybe even design, produce, and sell some online to others who want that Aloha Christmas tree look.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Celebrating Christmas with decorations in Polynesian style
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