Sounds good. Maybe you could fasten them to the wall beside the window, instead of the ceiling, and offset them a little? It might be stronger. Don't pay any attention to me. It took me a year to remodel a little closet.
...I was going to mention that. Since the section of plastic drain is 10 ft, and the ceiling is 8' 4"", I plan to saw the upper end down 2 ft and bend them over, and use the ends to attach the leaves. I also thought of fishing line to support the top. Not sure how the numbers run for strength.
When our fence got taken out by a drunk driver, he also demolished two full yard waste containers. The green lids survived, and I cut one up into the shape of 6 leaves, and attached them to one of the old contour hubcaps. The other two trees will have paper leaves.
Well, today I spray painted the hubcap on my sculpted palm tree (unattached) I took the container, trunk, inner supports down to the garage and dry fitted them together. I had a 10' piece of 1/4' plywood, 3 1/2 inches wide in the rafters, that fits nicely inside the 4" drain pipe. The post on the base, along with the plywood and 2 pool noodles, supported the trunk nicely. When I attach the sculpted, I will have to shorten the top of the trunk, cutting flaps at the top, to attach to the hubcap. I will need some restraint, using wire. When I add the cement to the base, I may not need any, other to make sure it can't fall over. I made a trip to Michael's craft center to buy Green poster boards for the leaves on the other two trees, along with a roll of brown wrapping paper for the sand, white colored paper to top off the sky, blue water paper & bubble wrap for the surf. I made two corner cutouts of palm leaves outside the window, from the green poster boards. Then I unwrapped the dozen coconut cups from the dollar store, taping a piece of string on the inside of the top, using the straw hole. I then super glued the to halves together. These will be tied to the center of the leaves. I liked the idea of an orange Moon/Sun, and found a glitter poster board, that I cut into a circle. It is a uniformed golden glitter, but acts weird, when photographed with a flash. Enough for now.... good start.
THE COCONUT TREE SREENIDHI IS STUDYING FIRST CLASS IN CHEGU VIDYALAYAM SHE HAS A POEM ON COCONUT TREE
@Nancy Hart Well, it is "Crunch" time on the Island! Last week, our daughter and family were visiting from CO, and it was a busy week. Vacation Bible School begins on the 15th, and I spent the last few days decorating the three windows. I have scaled back the Coconut Palm tree part of the project, to two 7 foot trees. I plan to paint the trunks today, and assemble them tomorrow on site. I will include some pictures, but they have not been a priority up to now.
Here are pictures of the finished windows, with flash and without. There is 6 ft of wall between the windows.
Many others have been decorating elsewhere, and I liked these clever ideas. Life preservers made from red pool noodles. Small palm trees made from umbrellas. Anchor "chain" from sliced, black pool noodles.
Well the two coconut palm trees are up! I decided that they were too much, between the windows, so moved them to the wall to the left of the windows. The two look better, by themselves. There is a 7 foot 2x2 that runs inside the trunk, and pool noodles are beside it. I cut the front of the trunk, above the wood off, leaving the back half (16") to support the tree top. I screwed the tree leaf to the hubcap and 2x2 from the front. I cut a groove with a hacksaw across the top of the 2x2, and hung the hubcap on the top of the 2x2. There is a ring around the back of the hubcap, which I hammered into the groove and hammered heavy U-staples down over the wire. I also filled the container with large pebble rocks, for weight. This made the tree stable and I didn't have to wire it up. Rather than paint the trunk, I used a roll of 6" wide brown masking paper, to spiral around the length of the trunk and then wrapped clear 2" packing tape around the trunk in a spiral pattern. Much simpler. I tied on 3 coconuts to each tree and they were finished.