Freckles 'n' Family: March 2015

DIY Cake/CupCake Display

For our church Birthday Soical, I would be decorating two table centerpieces see HERE and I wanted them to stand out.

I came across this amazing blog page HERE and decided this is what I wanted to make and so my quest to find an old light fixture began.

I found a three domed light fixture at our local restore for $10

I completely stripped it down

Picked up some of the amazing E6000 glue and some wooden rounds from Michaels Crafts.

I glued the smaller wood round onto the larger wood rounds, then glue them to the base of the light fixture

I found a plate at the thrift store and glued that onto the top of the light fixture.

Weigh everything down and let to dry. Then I used ceramic paint to spray paint it.

Add some pretty bling to the edges and didn't it turn out great.

This is what It looked like when I used it for my T-Party table centerpiece.

In this picture you can see the underneath of the light fixture.

I can't wait to use this for actual cake.cupcake displays and think of the different color possibilities too!

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Being part of a committee in my church, I am responsible to help plan and put into action the activities we have every month. At the end of January I had to get my head into the game for our Relief Society Birthday Social - The theme 'T-Party." Click HERE to take a peek at that.

So I decided to go with the ideas of the Mad Hatter's T-party and his crazy awesome hat. I went with Johnny Depps version of the Mad Hatters Hat.

First thing first was to google, how to :) and used these directions HERE

I first made a mock hat, which my girls still play with now.

Now, I thought I had saved my pictures in stages :/ I didn't, but I will say this I did follow the directions.

It didn't turn out as smooth as I wanted, but once I got the scarf around it and added the peacock feather and hat pins it turned out great - I think :)

For the hat pins I used thick craft wire and glued broken beads from a few old necklaces. Glue them into place and cover with the scarf. I was going to wear my Mad Hatter's Hat, but gosh, it was heavy, so it ended up on display instead.

I made a mini Mad Hatter Hat as well.

Then I got the bug of making these hats and kept making more Lol

This Black and Red one to our LDS Relief Society Birthday Social.

I made it from felt and was light and then I glued it onto a hair band.

Super mini top hat

My homage to my Home Country - Wales :) A Welsh Dragon Tea Cup Hat

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Happy 3rd Birthday Carys

How time flies by!

Three years ago we welcomed our second daughter, Carys Faith Feriante into this world and ever since that day, Carys has been a delight except when she has those little screeching frustration episodes lol.