Sail away Pottery Barn!

 

Robyn's $5.00..... Mayflower table centerpiece

Pottery Barn's $40.00 Mayflower table centerpiece...

A closer look at what I did...

First, I drew a sketch of the pottery barn boat.

Then I brainstormed inexpensive materials that I could use to make my own boat.  I came up with a shoebox, brown place mats, floral foam, canvas, and dowels.  To make your own, gather the following materials and follow my tutorial.

MATERIALS:

Shoebox (5 1/2" x 10 3/4" x 3 1/2 or 4" tall) *I used a kid's one from Target & cut off the end

Two sturdy brown place mats (12" x 18" each) (I used bamboo ones from the Dollar Tree)

Two (1/4 " x 36"long) dowels (Hobby Lobby) *cut them into three pieces...15 1/2", 16", and 16 1/2"

Three round dowels ~3/16" each cut into 7" pieces (about $1/ pkg. @Walmart) *I already had from caramel apple tutorial

Lightweight Fabric to cut three (8 1/2" x 12") "sails"~I had an old canvas basket liner that had rickrack on it.  OR...  you can use the backs of three small tote bags from the Dollar Tree (photo below) 

*If you use the tote bags, one of the edges is already finished so you can cut the fabric to 8 1/2" x 11"

Two green floral foam "bricks" (Dollar Tree)

Newspaper

Rocks

Glue gun & sharpie

Packing tape

Scissors

Fabric glue or sewing machine

center and hot glue one floral brick

with a serrated knife, cut about 1" off the other block horizontally so that it will not be higher than the box when hot glued on top of the other.

hot glue 3 or 4 rocks to the bottom of the box along each side of the floral foam

roll up newspaper and pack lightly around the floral foam

tape it all up

With the place mat binding on the bottom, mark and cut out the two sides of the boat.  The highest point is 7" from the bottom binding.  The lowest point is 6" from the bottom binding. (On wrong or backside of place mats, you will measure 3 1/4" in from the right and left side to designate the point at which the line you will draw slopes up)

center and glue the sides of the boat to the shoebox

hot glue the edges together where the sides meet.

With the scraps from the place mat, cut three strips (1 3/4" x 11 1/2" or so), over lap them and glue them down to cover the top of the box.  Twist the point of the scissors back and forth to make three holes (about 3" apart) to stick the larger dowels into.

gently wiggle and push down the three larger dowels into each of the holes

iron your sails

Finish the edges by ironing 1/2" all around, and then a 1/2" again.

Use fabric glue or sew the edge seams down

With scissors, poke holes on each end of the casing and thread the smaller dowels into each sail

Hot glue the top center of each sail to one of the dowels on the boat (1" down from the top of each dowel)~just a dab of hot glue and thats it!  Won't this look especially cute on the "kids table" at Thanksgiving?

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