Faking Fancy.

You see this?

Well, not the two goofballs stuffing each others faces.. This:

I made it. Out of two wine glasses and three plastic plates. Just glue em all together and you got an expensive looking cake stand that costs only about three dollars! wOOt.

Also, I stained the glasses and plastic with glue and food coloring (two drops green and one drop blue for turquoise) and painted it on like paint. 

Using glue makes it look more frosty and vintage-y, but if you prefer shinier looking glass, then just switch the glue out with modge podge. 

Here we did it with some mason jars:

And the best thing is, it washes off. Plus, we took it all apart and kept the nice glasses!

Yay, happy wedding-celebration-cake-time.

Okay, here we go.

So I started this thing-a-ma-jigg to keep track of all the jacked up stuff that I wanna make pretty and all the wacky solutions my mother-in-law and I come up with. Hopefully whoever cares to check up on here will get a few ideas to make their lives easier.

So the husband's g-ma and auntie came to visit a couple a weekends ago after the wedding. Lately, our favorite pastime has been garage sale hopping. So we went to a hand full of em that weekend, and g-ma got me this:

So here goes my first project! 

You can probably already guess where I'm going with this...