See the boats AT the party here
The pirate party preparations are well underway. Since we have been having an office Margaritaville party for years and years and years...and I took over the job...I try to switch the theme around every year. Last year was a Hawaiian themed twist. It's been a parrot/sufer themed twist ; it's been a Mexican themed twist. The theme just has to revolve around palm trees.
I usually shop around for boat serving pieces (that can also be used in nautical themes).
But, when I ran across these three baskets, I knew I had to get them. I have a wooden row boat with separate compartments in which I serve crackers, but these are wide open baskets. The baskets measure 29', 25", and 21" in length. I checked my bag of lumber pieces left over from previous projects. Thankfully, I had them in three sizes to fit in the bottom of each basket. I drilled holes the diameter of the dowel masts, glued the dowels into the holes, and sprayed them with brown paint. I also sprayed smaller diameter dowels (which are the length of each basket) brown. I tied those on with kitchen twine.
I had linen left over from a wedding I had helped plan a few years back. It was perfect for the sails. I sewed the sides of the rectangles on my sewing machine to make finished edges. Then I hand stitched the top edge over the cross dowels using a slip stitch on the backs of the sails. I did the same for the top sail, which is attached to only one dowel. After stitching it on top, I took large running stitches up both sides and the middle. Then I gathered up the sails on these, stitched, and secured the thread.
I am going to fill the boats with three different kinds of bar cookies. If you go to Pinterest and look my up under FunJani, I have a bar cookie board started.
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