Pirates Then and Pirates Now

Above are pictures of a pirate ship we did back in 2007, when the pastor asked for many different kinds of boats to be placed on stage. The other boats didn't really pan out, but the pirate ship was very realistic. The cost of materials was about $250. This pic must have been taken right before demolition since we already had a christmas tree ready to go in the background.


Below are pictures from this last weekend when we debuted our latest Pirate theme, "Where yer treasure be...so there be yer heart."   

We found manila rope for rigging and tarps for the sails for a good price at Harbor Freight.   We also used red gels in the corners and an orange one in the center.   For the skulls on the sails we used stock jolly roger gobos from goboman.com. 

For the treasure chest we accented an old chest we had with maroon satin fabric and an awesome skull one of our coworkers got from a decorative sword shop at the mall.  

There are about 800 plastic gold coins from a party store that we hot glued to some floral styrofoam that we layered to get a nice mound of coins.  This cost for everything from this latest project was about the same as the 2007 pirate theme.  Playing with lighting and colors and focussing on smaller projects that tie together a main theme really worked better than doing one big project and neglecting the accents.