Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:43 pm
#9752
Hmmmmmm,
Well, you can find pretty small PVC at most hardware places like Lowe's and Sears and such. The 1/2" is what you want. To paint it you'd have to make sure to buy plastic covering paint. If you get paint for metal it will just flake right off.
The leaves could be done easily enough out of scraps of material, the fake silk stuff or something similar. You can usually pick that stuff up pretty cheap, even some Wal-Marts have it. Just cut out the proper length and hot glue it to the PVC. If you want a little backbone to the leaves, it would be simple enough to glue pieces of drinking straws to the back where you couldn't see it.
The tassles might be a little harder to do, I'm thinking maybe you could buy one of those craft type corn broom things, and use clumps of that for the tassles by tying some together and sticking it in the top of the tube. They'd be easy enough to save for a few years and then replace if need be.
Another option for the real ones is to get those super cheap tomato and flower stakes and tie the real ones to the stakes. They would be hidden from view and still should keep wind damage to a minimum. You can get the thin metal ones that are about 36" tall for a buck or so I think. Or some places have little bamboo ones that are like .60 each.
I wish you the best of luck with your project.
gale
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