“Our tree”,originally uploaded
by eclectic echoes.
By the time the holidays are over, Johann will have helped decorate four trees: Grandma and Grandpa’s tree, our large tree for Ukrainian Christmas, our table top goose feather tree, and one at the Mystic Aquarium. Every Christmas Mystic Aquarium has the “Holiday Sea of Trees” as one of their holiday events. Local organizations sponsor decorating the Christmas trees that are placed throughout the indoor spaces of the aquarium. Bank Square Books agreed to do a tree this year.
Annie and Jane, the owners, got the idea of using little Dover books, scallop shells, and one of their origami sea creatures kits for ornaments. Jane took one look at the origami pattern book and decided they didn’t have the patience to do it, but I did. So Annie called me and asked if we’d like to help them with the tree.
The timing was perfect. We needed a fun project to work on. The chance to help the aquarium and the book store, while also helping friends made the project even better. We worked on it for about a week and a half. In the end we managed to make 50 ornaments for the aquarium tree and about a dozen origami for Johann to keep.
“Our tree 3″, originally uploaded
by eclectic echoes.
While we were busy folding, Annie called again and asked us if we’d like to help them decorate the tree as well. Johann was so excited, he could hardly wait until November 25. We met them at the aquarium in the morning and had the best time putting our ornaments on the tree. Boomerang, one of the young California sea lions, kept swimming over to see what we were doing. Bank Square Books’ tree is right in front of the observation window of the indoor California sea lion tank. We made sure to put ornaments on the back of the tree for Boomerang to look at too.
