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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

A Cake Stand as a Vase?



Here is the story of how a pedestal cake stand became a vase.


I had four heart-shaped tins and I decided to make some heart shaped candles. I thought I might give them as gifts. 

Heart-shaped Tins

What to use for the candles. You know how when you want to do something, you want to do it now. Well, that was me! So I found four votives. I put them in a glass bowl over some boiling water in a saucepan and let them melt.

Melting Votives for Candles, using double broiler

After they melted, I removed the wicks and poured the melted wax into the heart tins. Fortunately, I had some small wicks to replaced the ones I removed. 

Heart-shaped Tin Candle

As I was waiting for them to cool, I decided to put away a cake stand that I had recently used, which belonged to my grandmother. I turned it up side down so as to be able to fit it in my buffet. (Too many things in there!) I looked at it and thought, "what a cute vase this would make." So I headed outside to pick flowers. I found a pretty rose that would work. 

When the candles were cool, I arranged them around the underside of the now upside down cake stand and then placed the rose (and water) in the now open base.  


Heart-shaped Tins as Candles with a Rose


Heart-shaped Tins as Candles


This was nice, but it was missing something. I went back to my buffet to see what else I could find. I found these heart-shaped paper doilies. 

Heart-shaped Paper Doilies

I placed them under the heart shaped tins. The result looked much better.  My rose was fading so back outside for some more flowers. This time I decided to use some ground orchids and heather. I also included another purplish plant (have no idea what it is).  I even placed some of the heather around the tins.


Cake Stand as Valentine's Day Vase with Ground orchids


It still needed something. I found a quilted, heart shaped place mat. Now it seemed to be complete and ready for Valentine's Day. That's how my pedestal cake stand became, a vase.

Cake Stand as Valentine's Day Vase with Heart-shaped Mat

I am using it on my coffee table, but with the dark wood background, the pictures is a little dark.    Therefore, I took most of the pictures on my kitchen table.


Linking up at Whipperberry.



10 comments :

  1. Very nice. I'm glad I stopped by. I'm going to follow you after I comment. Usually I follow on Twitter, Google +, and also Facebook. Take care, linda

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    1. Linda,
      Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Thanks for following too.

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  2. Oh, why not? It looks fabulous!

    Hopping by and following your lovely blog's Pinterest. I blog @ Getting Healthy with Essential Oils

    I am also inviting you to join Tiddle Diddle Handmade Shoppe's first giveaway event.

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  3. Isn't it funny how we look at an item one way for so long and then all of a sudden, we find a new use for it. That's what happen with this cake stand. Thanks for stopping by.

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  4. what a creative and lovely project! Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop xo

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    1. Thanks for commenting and hosting Thursday Favorite things hop. It's always nice to find a new way to use an item.

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  5. What a good idea! It looks lovely!

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    1. Thanks Jeanie for stopping by and commenting. I appreciate it. Love when something can be re-purposed.

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  6. what a pretty project, Bev. We are featuring this at the party today. We can't wait to see what you're sharing this week!

    Lelanie
    http://to-sew-with-love.com

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    1. Lelanie,
      Thanks for liking my cake stand vase and for featuring me in your site. I am so excited and appreciate being selected.
      I have added your button on this blog and on my page.
      Thanks again,
      Bev

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