3 Masted Napkin Ship

Come cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year;
To honour we call you, not press you like slaves,
For who are so free as the sons of the waves?

With the help of THIS site, I made this really funky 3 masted napkin ship to adore our plates on Thanksgiving day. Pretty fun, huh?  To make my napkin stay folded (which, if you use enough starch it will do it on it's on, but I didn't want to starch it) I used a paper clip on the inner fold:

See that little guy?

While making this I did a little research. You see, I wanted to figure out if I was going to call this a "Ship".....or was there a fancier name? I don't know anything about sea-faring vessels. I came across a site that gave me this image:

I'd say it's a ship. The only things I am missing is a bowsprit and the yards across the masts. Kinda hard with napkins. :-) Here's a another image of my Ship getting ready to set sail for messy mouths (?!?!):

Oooo, you can also see my Hay Centerpiece!! 

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Thanksgiving Centerpiece

While I was bumbling around on Pinterest for centerpieces I found this really elegant picture of a wheat bundle wrapped and slightly twisted and set up as a centerpiece in the middle of a table. Well, I thought....Thanksgiving!! That's perfect. I wish I could show you that picture....I didn't actually *pin* it, I just stored it in my mind. :-) 

I searched everywhere (if everywhere=the Dollar Store) for some wheat. I knew I could probably find some at a greenhouse or at Michaels....but I also knew I wouldn't like the price. At all. So, I brainstormed a bit and thought, HEY!! Actually, it was more like HAY!!. Hay would totally work. 

And, I was right!

Hay isn't just for horses any more my friends.

I collected all kinds of hay tops from a field that had gone by without being fully hayed and I trimmed them and gathered them in a bundle. I used some linen and some burlap material (with a little hot glue) to secure them in place and then I just twisted above and below the fabric in opposite directions. I love it as a center piece. 

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