My Exciting Weekend, or cake plates & centerpieces

My Friday Night:

Painting platters white for the cupcake stand.  The goal is to make simple catering platters to look more like the very pretty plate that I bought for the top tier.   Goal #2:  Make sure that the less sturdy plates on the bottom do not break under the weight of the heavier plate on top. 




My Saturday Night:

Painting frames for the centerpieces.  Trying to add some colors to the tables with the frames and personalizing things a bit with the pictures.  My lesson for the night is that stamps work best with stamp pads.  Brushing paint on to them makes for a lot of guesswork!





Sneak preview of cupcake stand:

Was going to support the tiers with brass candlesticks I found for $.25 each at a yard sale last weekend.  But during this weekend's yard sale adventures, I found glass candlesticks that work even better with the white.   (Yard saling has become a weekly a ritual for my mother and I.  Good bonding time, but makes for sleepy Saturday mornings!)  I'm trying to decide if I'm feeling the purple flowers I experimented with on the base.  Hmm...Oh well, plenty of other things to do until I make up my mind.