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@Growing wrote:

Would you tell me how you might use the ribbons? I am fascinated by this idea. 

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@Growing  I was watching a Valerie Parr Hill show and saw how she put ribbons on her trees.  Some had the ribbon gracefully wrapped around the tree like garland, while others had the ribbon just drapped  up and down the tree in a somewhat twisted look.  I wish I could post pictures because I know the way I'm describing it is hard to visualize, but all her trees looked amazing.  Nothing at all like my very traditional "old timey"  (dated as one poster said)  tree.   😊

[Georgiagrama]

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@Twins Mom wrote:

@1Snickers 

I remember opening  gifts and setting aside wrapping paper to flatten for next year!

Funny, loving memories!  I think we both really appreciated the holiday for genuine reasons.

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@Twins Mom   @1Snickers 

And gift boxes from the stores.  We NEVER threw away a gift box. 😊

[Georgiagrama]

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@Twins Mom wrote:

@Georgiagrama 

Your tinsel "talk" reminds me of dear mom.  She would place few strands carefully on tree and when iT came time for tree to come down she meticulously retrieved each strand. Saved for next year.  

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@Twins Mom   My Mother lived through the Great Depression.  We NEVER threw away any ribbon or paper, and when the stores starting gift wrapping with a real box, we saved those boxes like gold. 

Wonderful childhood memories.  If I could go back to just one Christmas morning with my mother and daddy and brother and sister  in our home together................sigh.  🎄🎄

[Georgiagrama]

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@Georgiagrama wrote:

@Spurt   You can still get them, but this isn't what I was referring to.  I use the long strand that you wind around and around your tree. It's supposed to look like snow on the branches, although I've never understood how silver was supposed to look like snow. 😊 

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@Georgiagrama 

OK I understand, it was more of a silver garland that you wrap abound the tree...I used to use the garlands but stopped doing it just to change the look of the tree decor up....

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@Spurt   I'm so sorry for the confusion.  I should have specified garland, but we've always called "garland", tinsel, and "tinsel", icicles.  

[Spurt]

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@Georgiagrama wrote:

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@Spurt wrote:

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@Georgiagrama wrote:

@Spurt   You can still get them, but this isn't what I was referring to.  I use the long strand that you wind around and around your tree. It's supposed to look like snow on the branches, although I've never understood how silver was supposed to look like snow. 😊 

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@Georgiagrama 

OK I understand, it was more of a silver garland that you wrap abound the tree...I used to use the garlands but stopped doing it just to change the look of the tree decor up....

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@Spurt   I'm so sorry for the confusion.  I should have specified garland, but we've always called "garland", tinsel, and "tinsel", icicles.  

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@Georgiagrama 

no worries....

[Sooner]

I use wide ribbon wound horizontally on a tall skinny tree to make it look wider.  I wind it in and out of the branches and crimp and bend it using the wire edges to give it movement and life.

Think of running water and you get the sense of how to "structure" the ribbon, wind it in a spiral and fill in gaps in the tree.  Weave it in and out and it has a quality that to me makes the tree.  I have some that is beige with gold writing of Bible verses on it.

On a huge full tree, I don't use it.  Just a few big ornaments and lots of lights.