Wishing Well

I created a Boeing Maui team for Relay for Life. I have never done Relay for Life before, but I am the Maui team captain for Boeing on the Move (a Boeing-wide pedometer/step contest intended to get us all in shape) and I thought it would be a good way to get everyone moving.

I didn't realize what an enormous event Relay for Life is. Yikes. Good thing I've got some very supportive co-workers.

The event theme is "superheroes" and so we've decided that our team would have a Medieval theme and do a "Lords and Ladies of Boeing" thing. It appeals so nicely to my crafty side that it's making the stress of the whole event just melt away.  I'm busy working on making tabbards and henins for the team, and I thought that a great way to raise money at our tent would be to make a wishing well.

A co-worker that's done the event before said that selling things at your tent doesn't really work out, so I thought a wishing well would be perfect. Plus I can set it up at work and collect extra money from my co-workers who aren't participating.

So I went to Walmart and found some things and put together my wishing well.

 I found a lovely planter that looked like a wishing well bucket, so I decided to use it as the base. I bought a couple bags of stones to use at the bottom and some dowels and flowers. I came up with an ingenious (if I do say so myself) way of anchoring the dowels using some hardware left over from my old vertical blinds. I screwed the brackets into the bottom of the planter and used framing wire to secure the dowels (I am a master at using what I already have in my apartment.

You can see Burt (my roomba) and the base of Janine (my dress form) in the picture.

I hand painted the sign.

I added some moss under the stones (I thought it was fake, but it's not).

I ended up adding some Xmas lights (battery powered) and some extra fake foliage.

I'm naming that purple butterfly Alberto.

Some of Alberto's entourage. It's hard to tell but those little purple things are butterflies (the pictures come out a little fuzzy when I'm drunk - or maybe that's just me. But Burt looks great!)