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t is true | |||
that the
tradition of the Christmas tree never really caught on in Little Bohemia. For one thing (as mentioned earlier), the decorating tradition was formed almost as an afterthought, and of things inherited, found or donated. It usually requires some additional
effort to obtain a tree, and Scheherazade never thought it an important
enough mission to pursue. |
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nstead, | |||
strange
substitutes are sometimes employed. The oddest of these was the
street sweeper brush, salvaged by a foraging artist friend of
Scheherazade's. The street sweeper brush was very much like an oversized bottle brush, cylindrical in form and about three feet long. It was flexible, and so was positioned to appear as if it were climbing up, or spilling out of, the fireplace. The brush was decorated as a tree would
normally be, with strings of beads, lights and dried apple slices on
little red ribbons. |
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cheherazade has also used vases of eucalyptus |
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and droopy
draecena marginata plants as Christmas tree stand-ins.
One year she wrapped a 15" Godzilla in tiny lights and hung balls from his limbs. Twice she even had a real tree. |
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