Well as it is Loy Krathong lets see what us farangs have to do, first you have to take a picture of where they have decided to make the Krathongs, generally this will be somewhere on the floor right in the middle of where you would normally walk, this is regardless of how many tables and chairs you own, Loy Krathongs are made on the floor and you aint gonna be able to change that, it is part of the culture.
As you can see the whole family likes to get involved including numerous dogs.
In an ideal world for your base you would use polystyrene, this is great for floating and lasts forever, but alas the treehuggers say polystyrene is bad for the rivers and seas of Thailand, so you go and chop a nice tree down to be the base of your Krathong, banana trees seem to be the most popular, they chopped down a 3 meter high banana tree and used about a foot of it so not much went to waste.
Now you have to make your Krathong green, we used leaves for ours, but if your using polystyrene then a nice lead based oil paint would last for years and years, infact in years to come you might meet up with your Krathong again a bit like sending a message in a bottle, ours if we are lucky will only last a week or so well apart from the candles
There's a few of them round today so we got loads of different ones.
Well thats some of the tops done, next we shall do the sides.