Anyone for afternoon tea?

Yesterday I had mentioned that we went to a car boot sale. A few people asked me what this was, so for all of the non - brits reading this, it is like a sort of portable yard sale. Car boot sales are an organised event where people take thier unwanted goods and sell them from the boot/trunk of their car. Well, really on tables and rails. Mostly you can get good bargains, but also some over priced rubbish, especially if the owners class them as "antiques". Are they old??  yes. Antiques?? no way!

Anyway, I had a project in mind so we popped along to our local bi-weekly car bootsale.
Here are sonme of my bargains.

I fell in love with this sheet ,music

Isn't Rudolph adorable???

It has even been signed by someone, I have no idea who, but someone!

I can see this becoming a super nice Christmas decoration, but not sure what yet. It will have to be framed as it is old and pretty fragile. But not bad for £1.

I fell in love with this plate. I remember a similar one from my childhood,

I am sure my mum inherited it from a Great Aunt or something. I remember it from parties and with cakes on for afternoon teas.

Mine was only £1.

Next I gathered what I needed for my project. I saw one recently at an event and just knew i had to give it a try!

2 plates

One dinner plate and one side plate

Or you could use two dinner plates, I suppose, depends on what kind of look you want.

Next, a sweet little glass.

All 3 items purchased from a sweet old lady for £1.50.

You will also need your trusty glue gun.

My cousin Ashley left me a link for a super sweet crocheted cake slice, in a comment on my post from last week. I was asking for suggestions for sweet things to put on my new cake stand. She mentioned she would like a vintagy cake stand. So I though I would share this idea for a sweet DIY (read cheap) vintagy cake stand.

Take your small plate and your glass and do this

You need to make sure it is in the centre as much as possible. This isn't always possible with old plates and glasses I guess, but as close as you can get.

Draw around the glass.

Put a line of hot glue on the outline of the glass, thatyou have just drawn.

Place your glass on top of the glue and let dry for a minute or so.

voila.

Next you need to line up your top tier and bottom tier. The only way I could centre it was to place it on and then look down on it from above.

My plates are from the same set, so the little one fitted neatly into the centre of the big plate.

I didn't draw all around the base of the glass this time. I just put 4 little lines to show where it needed to be.

Put a line of hot glue around the edge of the base of the glass. I covered the whole of the base in glue and you can see it! But my glue isn't 100% clear, so this is your call. I am sure mine will be strong but it isn't as pretty as it should have been.

Replace the glass onto the large plate/bottom tier ensuring it is within the little lines that you made.

Once dry you have made a cute little cake stand!

Ta da!

(sweet little bow to hide your ugly glue mistake is optional lol)

Anyone for afternoon tea??

I haven't added photos of all the steps as I thought they were either self explanatory or I could describe them better than I did. If anyone would like more details then I would happily make another and post more pics!