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Building the jail - we used fencing pieces and secured PVC pipes on as bars. We spray painted the pipes black. And we decided that the fencing wasn't really strong enough so for future reference, if you're going to build a jail don't use fencing.
We attached plywood boards to the bottom and the sides. Our biggest concern was stability and safety. The little money bags you see at the bottom were filled with sand to help stabilize it. This worked for one night but we all decided that we could have benefitted from a much better design from the get to. But hey, not bad for a design off the cuff. :)
We even stapled old fashion looking fabric to the inside of the doors and put wood-look paper on the lower outside.
We had mustaches and a hat to pose for pictures:
Next we made a watering hole. I love the way it turned out but this project was my first and last pallet project! I do not see the appeal. Seriously they're a pain in the rear to work with. Just my opinion...
We made a "kissing booth" where people could guess how many kisses were in the jar. Then we decided we could also have them guess lemon drops and root beer barrels. I think the idea was good but we were out of time and energy to make the booth as well as we did the other things so I didn't love the way this one turned out.
Speaking of signs, we also made Wanted signs for each speaker to post by the classroom doors:
We used gold and brown plastic tablecloths (I couldn't face washing cloth ones this time) and put red and blue bandana, mason jars with a burlap & lace warp filled with real babies breath and little gem-like rocks scattered on the bandanas as the table centerpieces.
For the buffet tables we put burlap down the center with some cow print fabric for color and variety. We used the same gem like rocks as well as "gold" nuggets to scatter on the table. Again, mason jars with a burlap & lace wrap and wildflowers.
Along the walls we did rosettes in two sizes - huge ones and then a big bunch. These took pretty much forever to make. I think we had 4 people spend about 3 or 4 hours making all the rosettes.
For the small ones that were all bunched together we made all the rosettes and then used floral wire to secure them to a sheet of grid wire sort of like chicken wire but with smaller holes. Gloves were required as it's sharp and it was trick getting them all secured on tightly and close together.
We always forget how BIG those walls are and how much you need to really make an impact. We were glad we had the big rosettes.
We had a torn fabric garland and hung a sign that said Howdy Ya'll at the entrance. (It's hard to read the sign here but it was sure cute!)
We strung lights across the gym (you have to have lights!) Here's a fun story about the lights.... We had bought the lights we needed but moved in the middle of all this. The day before the conference we were house sitting (really, too much going on at once) and came home to make sure everything was together to haul over to the church the next day. This is when we discovered that the lights were missing. They're somewhere in our storage unit (!!) so we had to buy new lights and now we are the proud owners of several boxes of lights. I hope our new house has a pergola or patio or something. If it doesn't maybe Dave will just have to build us one... ;)
We hung up our moon on the stage for a good background there and hung black paper behind it to camouflage the stage.And then the fun began...
We couldn't have done it without Becky, our committee and the stakes who signed up to help us set up all the decorations. I was mostly pleased with the way it turned out and I hope the conference attendees enjoyed it.
2 comments:
Looks fabulous, of course!
All of that hard work paid off - it turned out great! And I love a chance to work with power tools. :)
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