Cowboy/Western Theme Ideas Anyone?

I hope the creative minds in this group can help us with a decorating challenge! Our group is putting on a fundraiser dinner & silent auction in October. Our theme is the Wild West. So far, with a $50 budget for 10 round tables, we have: 5 red & white checked vinyl tablecloths, 10 red bandanas, 10 2" plastic cowboy hats in the primary colors, and twine to make miniature lassos. We have almost decided to get small bales of hay - the kind sold at Michael's or Ben Franklins, using our 40% off coupons. We have a pattern for a 3" 2-dimensional cowboy boot made out of cardboard.

Does anyone have ideas, or links to sites, on how to make an inexpensive cowboy to add to our theme? Thank you for your help!

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shirley miller
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Sounds like one of my dance gigs!

Any local farm would have haybales available. These take up lots of space and are incredibly cheap.

Tell people the theme, and they will show up in denim, overalls,checkered shirts, straw hats, bandanas, painted-on freckles, blacked-out teeth (hillbilly and cowboy are contiguous for many), boots or barefoot.

At one of my school dances, those little hats were strung up outside the entrance in a mobile formation; cool for the little kids to walk under.

Go get a CD of appropriate music.

HTH

--Karen M. and if you need a square dance caller...

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Karen M.

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Pat in Virginia
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Diana Curtis

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Artists to look for: Riders in the Sky, Roy Rogers. Start with the el cheapo clearance bins at a *.Mart. RITS are still alive and recording, so their stuff will be pricier than RR's. I found a cassette in the $5 box with RR doing old standards with various contemporary artists. Another good find was the title theme from "Texas" (a TV miniseries?) and it has a ton of nice stuff--Bob Wills, Sons of the Pioneers, and more.

Also Asleep at the Wheel, also still alive & collecting royalties.

HTH

--Karen M.

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Karen M.

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