Just finished cleaning the laundry room, kitchen and bathroom so I'm allowing myself to blog now.
So if you read earlier you know that I made cupcakes for a baby shower. I knew I was going to need something to display them on and my recent cake stand find from Ross wasn't going to be enough and I wasn't going to spend another $15 (still a good bargain) on another cake stand that I really wouldn't need. So I decided I was going to do what I've seen everyone do and make my own stand. I ended up going to Goodwill and Salvation Army and finding everything, the whole stand was under $10. It could have been less had I gone to Salvation Army the day before on their 1/2 off day, but what do you do? The only mistake I made was the adhesive I used, I used the Gorilla glue that puffs up and dries white, also this morning I discovered the bottom piece came unglued so I'm going to scrape off the Gorilla glue and use glass glue. I had to use a box cutter to scrape the excess glue off and then used some ribbon to hide the glue that you can see through the glass. I was going to spray paint the glass white but I really liked the way it looked clear and I think the ribbon added something to it, especially for the shower. Also because you can see through the top plate and see glue I took some parchment paper and cut out a scallop with my Big Kick and stuck it to the top and it turned out great! This was super fun and now I'm using it to put fruit on.
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I just finished making some glass totems for my garden out of thrift store glassware. I used E9000 glue and I'm waiting to see if it will hold or not. If not, I'm going to try clear silicone. I love your cupcake holder.
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This is very clever. I've done several of the topiaries that everyone was doing last fall, but I really like this idea. I used hot glue for the topiaries, but have since heard that the E9000 glue is the best & will be getting some of that. I can see you are very new to blogland, so welcome. I'm a new follower, & I hope you will check out my blog & follow back if you find it interesting.
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