The Procrastinating/Cake Stand Post

This is entitled the Procrastinating Post because well...I'm sure you can guess. My daughter's birthday is next week and her party is this week...on top of everything else. So the post that I promised I'd post last week has still not been posted--and that's why... It's not really because I've been so busy with the party, it's because I've been busy with normal stuff, a few quickie crafty things (I swear I will post those at some point), and procrastinating on the party as well.

Anyhoo, here's a super quick, super cheap cutesy craft. My daughter decided that she wanted a tea party birthday party, so I've been trying to think of fun little things to go along with that type of party. Said daughter takes dance lessons in town not super far from our house, but far enough that if we were to drop her off and come home we'd have 10 or 20 min. before we had to get in the car and go back to get her. Instead, I take my younger 2 kids to the Dollar Store to poke around for cheap craft ideas and, in the spring, we trek on over to the park, too.

So this week at dance I've had tea party on the brain and while we were there, I found the perfect things to make a cake stand. I'm sure this is no news flash--this is the kind of thing that's everywhere, but instead of being a complete lame duck, I'll post it and try to be a step up from lame duck.

So first, you go to your local Dollar Tree and you get this (a cute plate)


and this (a glass taper candle holder)


Then you spray paint it to look like this....or whatever color you want it to be.


I didn't know if the spray paint would work, but it totally did! After that it's super easy peasy. I wasn't going for quickness not long lasting hold. You could use epoxy or something to glue the 2 pieces together, but I went with hot glue. The next thing you do is find the center of the plate. For me it was easy to know where to glue the candle stick to the plate because there was a big stamp on it right in the middle--about the same size as the candle holder. I just put glue around the top of the candle holder and stuck it right on.



Voila!

I spent a grand total of $2 on this beauty! Ca-ching!!!