This
was a simple project. I had seen this really cool room on Debbie Jackson's blog for the story of Queen Esther. I fell in love with her backdrop. In
fact, I coveted it! After diligently searching the internet I found it, only to
learn that it was no longer available and it would have been over $35 if it had been.
Not very good for a blog about being frugal.
I
kept feeling like there was another way to do this, but I could not envision
it. So I did what I always do in these situations, I let it incubate in my
mind. It never ceases to amaze me how God puts the answer together for me. I
just see something or think of something that fits the bill.
So
for this project, it came to me – purple plastic tablecloths. The kind you get
at the Dollar Tree. Then I needed a way to hang them up. I wanted them to hang
like curtains, so I could have pleats in them to make them more royal looking.
There may be a cheaper way to do this, but I bought 2 plain, long curtain rods
and had someone hang them for me at the top of the wall I was using.
Then
I bought 6 tablecloths (actually, I found a few somewhere in the church, so I
only had to buy 3).
I turned the top down and
taped it all the way across to make a pocket to slide over the curtain rods.
I hung
them from the rod and had my background for about $15 including rods and
tablecloths.
The thrones presented another problem. We didn’t have any
chairs with arms on them in the church. I could not think of what I had at home
that I could transport. Then it hit me – folding lawn chairs. The old fashioned
aluminum kind.
I had a long piece of goldenrod-colored cloth I cut in half
to cover the “thrones” with. We also had some shiny gold cloth in our resource
room. I just took a short rolling cupboard and covered it with some of the gold
cloth to put the crown and scepter on. And voila! I had my throne room - fit for a king, or a queen in this case.