Anyone for cake?

Here is the cake stand I made from the plates I sourced from my Op Shop travels. I apologise for the difference in photo's. I have made a few cake stands as Christmas presents and while for one design of plates I took photo's of it all coming together, I neglected to document the finished cake stand. However I did photograph the finished one of another set of plates - but not the construction!

I found my cake stand handles and china drill bit from CakeStandHandles at Craftumi.


Step One: Get all the bits you need. Plates, saucers, cups - check. Drill bit and charged drill - check. Small contaner of water and a marking pen  - check.

Step One

Step Two: Find the middle of the plate and mark the underside of the plate with the marker. Then start drilling on this mark. Make sure to add a few drops of water to keep the drill bit cool and to help alliviate the chance of the plate cracking (it helps with the friction).

Step Two

Step Three: Put the first screw in the bottom tier plate and add one of the cake plate dividers on the front.

Step Three

Step Four: Follow step two and step three again for the remaining tiers.

Step Four

Step Five: Remember to take photo's of all of the progress and enjoy your tea and cake with a cute vintage cake stand.

Step Five ~ Enjoy!

New Opportunities

I'm a simple kinda-girl. I don't need all the trimmings, nor all the bells and whistles (though I am coveting an iphone - I must be the only person without one!)

When opportunity knocks in the form of Op Shopping then I'm your girl. Here are the finds of this week.

Plates for making cake stands.

Hankies for, well, I will think of something. Plus I am ol'fashioned and always carry one with me.

I couldn't pass up this dictionary. My mum has a Webster's  New Collegiate Dictionary from 1957. It is one of my favourite things. Cloth bound, rice-paper thin pages and that smell that old books have. Not only that it has in it a 'Pronouncing Gazetteer', a 'Vocabulary of Rhymes', and 'Colleges and Universities in the United States and Canada. It is a treasure trove of language from when 'texting' was not even a twinkle in its programmer's eye.

My new (well 1938) Webster's lists the Presidents of America (FDR is still in office), flowers and their meanings (there are some interesting ones when combined in a posy), and a population of the world table - in 1938 the world had approximately 1.8 billion people. With 'Australasia' at 4 million!