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By Rosemarie Francisco and Roli Ng PALO, Philippines (Reuters) - Filipino mother Rhodora Tonningsen has no tinsel or baubles for her Christmas tree this year so she's decorated it with packets of instant noodles and empty sardine cans from relief supplies handed out to survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. Across the center of the mostly Catholic Philippines, people are scraping together whatever they can to celebrate Christmas, nearly seven weeks after the storm. Tonningsen, 43, a single mother of four, pried a battered, three-foot (one-meter) artificial Christmas tree from the bank of mud and debris thrown up by the storm by her tiny, partly damaged home in the town of Palo, and put it up on the front porch. "I just washed it so we'll have some semblance of Christmas, even if we're in dire straits," said Tonningsen, standing outside her home, now patched with corrugated iron also salvaged from the debris.More...