Beer Bottle Christmas Tree

It’s too late now to start building Christmas Trees for this year, but now is the right time to start making plans for next year.

We love recycling these days, and now you can combine being green with Christmas by building a beer bottle Christmas Tree.

The bad news is that you’ll need 1,050 empty beer bottles for the project. That’s roughly 3 bottles of beer a day, so you better start drinking now.

Video instructions for the Beer Bottle Christmas Tree as follows:

Christmas Tree Cluster

The Christmas Tree Cluster. Image courtesy Richard Crisp

An open cluster of about 40 stars in the constellation Monoceros, which is immersed in nebulosity and forms the nearly perfect outline of a fir tree. The fifth magnitude star S Monocerotis (also known as 15 Mon) lies at the base of the Cluster. It is an O7 giant, about 8,500 times as luminous as the Sun, which varies in between magnitudes 4.2 and 4.6. S Mon forms a visual double with a 7.5 magnitude companion lying just 2.8 arc-seconds away. Another reasonably bright star, immediately to the north of the Cone Nebula, marks the apex.

The Christmas Tree Cluster, which was named by L. S. Copeland, and the Cone Nebula were both discovered by William Herschel in 1783.

NGC 2264 may be physically associated with the Rosette Nebula, a faint bridge of faint nebulosity possibly linking the two.

Christmas tree

We have our first jeweled Christmas tree for the year! Celebrate this season of joy and love with the tree of Joy&Luv at Bugis Junction. Yes, that literally is the name of this glamorous tree.

As the brainchild of local jewelry chain Lee Hwa, the sparkling 5.5 meter Christmas tree is a showcase of the company’s jewels. Hanging on it are 150 replicas of the white gold and diamond charms from the Destinée Joy&Luv charm bracelet and 300 strands of glass ornaments. Shiny!

Even from afar, I was awestruck by this glittering beauty. Well, precious jewels have a strange hold over me. Soo Kee’s diamond tree in ’06 and Swarovski’s crystal tree in ’07 have already gone down in history as the most magnificent Christmas trees ever. But I’m very glad we have another jeweled tree for ’08, bad economy and all.

Remember that other Christmas tree in Bugis Junction with the beautifu

l carousel? This jeweled tree has that too. At its base is a silver carousel with 6 gorgeous hand-carved horses! They look extremely delicate — a perfect match for this pretty tree.

From now ’til December 31, you can ogle all you want in front of the InterContinental Hotel at Bugis Junction. Bring your cameras!

It seems that quite a few companies have used Christmas trees to advertise their brand. Besides jewelry makers, Braun Büffel also had one in the heart of Orchard road last year. It’s a highly effective way of building brand awareness, especially when the trees look that outstanding. I wonder whether companies should even be charged for this unique form of advertising. If you ask me, the trees probably help bring greater traffic to the malls.

Uniqe Christmas Tree

Uniqe Christmas Tree

I think this one was inspired by Charlie Brown:

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