Unusual Christmas Trees

Unusual Christmas Trees - PowerPoint Presentation

Not everyone has a traditional conifer as their tree at Christmas time.

Will and Guy have searched the net to bring you some quite different and alternative styles of decorated Christmas tree.  We hope they may bring a smile to your face.

• Unusual Spinning Optic Christmas Tree
• Revolving Christmas Tree
• Will's Unusual Decorated Christmas Tree
• Guy's Curiously Decorated Christmas Tree
• PowerPoint Presentation - Unusual Christmas Trees

Unusual Spinning Optic Christmas Tree

Revolving Christmas Tree

Will's Unusual Christmas Tree

Guy's Curiously Decorated Christmas Tree

You too could build a modern Christmas tree like mine! 

Will's amazing PowerPoint Presentation: Unusual Christmas Trees

Contents of Unusual Christmas Trees Presentation

• Will's Decorated Christmas Tree
• Here are more trees created from bottles
• Spinning Optic Christmas Tree
• Revolving Christmas Tree
• This Tree is PC friendly
• An Arch Around the Fire
• The Tree of Tyres
• This tree is created using tea lights
• A Book Christmas Tree
• Another Literary Tree
• The Detritus Christmas Tree
• The Garbage Tree

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How to Create a Christmas PowerPoint Presentation

Creating PowerPoint Presentations is satisfying, moreover, it's easy to get started making your own PPT slides and building them into a presentation.  The whole PowerPoint program is intuitive and easy to learn.  If you have Microsoft Office you may find that you already have PowerPoint along with Word and Excel. 

One way to begin is simply to open any example presentation.  Just download one of our free PPT files and open it with PowerPoint.  As you examine the slides, so it will become obvious how to add pictures and titles, if you do get stuck, ask the wonderful built-in 'Help'.  To make an Christmas slide show requires these skills;

• Imagination - Think of a Christmas theme or idea.
• Artistic - An eye for a good picture.
• Wordsmith - Choose a catchy title for each slide.
• Humour - Your viewers will appreciate a funny PowerPoint Presentation
• PowerPoint mechanics - Actually, this the easiest skill of them all, the program is so intuitive.

Good luck with creating your PowerPoint Presentation

Will and Guy

Unusual Christmas Tree in 2009 --->  Common Place 'Doormat' Christmas Tree in the 2010s?

Has the above structure been abandoned by a green doormat salesman?  Sadly, it's the work of the Health (elf?) and Safety committee in Poole, Dorset, England.

Official speak says it's wonderful because, it has no trunk therefore it won't blow over on street traders.  There are no branches to break off and land on someone's head, no pine needles to poke a passer-by in the eye, no decorations for drunken teenagers to steal and no angel, presumably because it would need a dangerously long ladder to place it at the top.

For as long as people in Poole could remember they had a lovely genuine Norwegian fir, which was tastefully decorated in coloured lights at a cost of about £500.  In contrast the green dormat tree cost not £1,400 as we first thought but a whopping £14,000.

After dark it displays fairy lights and has built-in speakers to play Christmas carols, but 95% of the Poole residents preferred the traditional tree.

Angels Come in Many Disguises!

Here is one of those pictures of unusual Christmas trees where you can devise your own caption.

• I love my Christmas tree. (Will)
• Is there a monkey puzzle tree under there somewhere? (Guy)

Upside Down Christmas Trees Are Fun

Will and Guy's idea behind an upside down Christmas trees is so that you can get more presents under the tree!  Check out the size of the chair so that you can get an idea of the scale. 

However, the truth is somewhat different.  The tradition of the Christmas tree began as a communal celebration, not with a tree in everyone's home, but with one tree in the town square.  As such, the tree was decorated, then suspended upside-down by its trunk from a cable stretched across the square.  This was symbolic and widely visible, furthermore, the orientation maintained the tree's color longer than placing it upright.  (Extra information supplied by John Wall)

Merry Christmas from Will and Guy,

and

Have a great Christmas

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Will and Guy Investigate
What is the Cost of Christmas?

Santa Claus is the patron saint of supply and demand is a quotation to be found on a BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation] online business page. The following article is based on that quote. Will and Guy have considerable sympathy with that point of view.

The Business that is Christmas

Christmas has become vital to the global economy, and that has begun to outweigh its religious significance, especially for children. The luxury goods market at Christmas is worth £35bn, [approx. $65bn USD] while the music business sees 40% of its annual sales at Christmas. More than 70% of children associate Christmas with Santa Claus, and only 8% with Jesus Christ, we have learned.

In 1647 Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans ordered the Mayor of London to tear down and burn decorations to stamp out all signs of Christmas frivolity. It was in the 19th century that the USA re-invented the holiday. A Philadelphia department store introduced Santa Claus; originally a 4th century monk, the patron saint of gifts, as a selling technique.

The Place of Christmas Trees

The Christmas tree tradition came from Germany, through Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, who introduced it in 1847 to the UK. Now over 7m Christmas trees are sold the UK, worth £150m and they are decorated with £200m worth of tinsel and baubles. We also consume 60,000 tons of chocolate worth £600m, 200 million litres of soft drinks, and 10m turkeys. Britain makes 2000 million crackers each year. To earn £60 a week, home workers make 1500 crackers at 4p each, the components, however, are imported from China.  Christmas Tree Customs.

Christmas certainly has become the beating heart of a huge global industry

Around the world, production lines have been rolling all year: from the toy factories of China which makes 80% of the toys sold at Christmas, to the perfumeries and luxury goods manufacturers of France, the video game designers of Lara Croft in Derby, England to the manufacturers of must-have video games in Japan, to the Christmas tree plantations of Britain. All of them are hoping that despite financial uncertainties that we spend extravagantly at Christmas.

The UK toy market is worth almost £2bn. With half that expenditure coming in the few weeks before Christmas, manufacturers and retailers can't start early enough to begin marketing their products. Even in the heat of summer, world-famous toy shop Hamleys opens its doors to the media to watch manufacturers jostling to be the must-have Christmas toy. Over 20,000 new toys are developed each year, but only a few hundred will make it onto the toy shop shelves, and maybe a few dozen will be hits. To persuade them, UK children are exposed to 18,000 TV ads each year and successful companies can make massive sales. The following figures support this proposition:

• The Pokemon craze saw 1000 product licences up for grabs from Nintendo. Totally sales reached $18bn.
• More than 22 billion Barbie dolls have been sold since its launch by Mattel.
• Barbie's rival, Sindy, developed by Hasbro, faces an uphill struggle in penetrating the crucial US market.
  Will and Guy's Conclusions

1. Ironically, the production of toys is a global business with the main production centres in Asia, whose people do not even celebrate the Christmas holiday.
2.  In China, a skilled workforce on a monthly wage equivalent to the price of a single toy manufactures almost 80% of the toys sold at Christmas.
3.  Toys are now designed in one continent [America], manufactured in another [Asia], and marketed in a third continent [Europe].

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