Trimming a Feather Boa

"PAMELA YAGER: Hey, now that we have fluffed our boa, we want to make sure that it's right size. Again if you have a 6 feet long, you want to trim it to the right size so we just cut it right in here. Actually I think I'm going to make one a little bit smaller so I'm going to trim it right in here 'cause that will fit nicely. If you noticed, they do have some feathers that are just loose on the end 'cause they do knot them. So I'm just going to take these off and we'll put them over here on this side. That's nice. And then we're going to shake them and make sure we have all the extra feathers off the boa so that we can work with it. We're going to put it here. The next thing we need is our leis, Hawaiian leis, and I have some different coordinating colors. I have pink and purple, and we want to get our lei ready. Now, leis come in different types. They have some that you may have seen that are all paper. Sometimes, they have flowers on them. I got these at a big party supply store and a lot times they do have Hawaiian types of outfits and decorations, so you shouldn't have a problem finding these. You could also find them online. And I have a--I'm going to be cutting the little flowers off. And actually they're all strung on one string which makes it very easy to just feed these off. They do have little plastic separators and be careful of these. You want to put those in the trash and over in the side and again, if you have pets like I do or kids, make sure you keep these little plastic things in one area and don't let them get on the floor because you don't want your animals or your kids chewing on those. And so I'm just going to take these off and have them separated by color. I've already done some of these pink ones over here and I have some lavender ones already, and I have some purple ones and I'm just going to take these off until on I have them all together in my different piles because I'm going to be coordinating colors. You want to keep things separate. And after we get finished doing that, we're getting ready for our next step. So I'm going to keep on doing this and we'll be right back."