A Piece of Cake... Stand.

Because of Pinterest, I decided I was going to make homemade gifts this year for birthdays and such. However, I am by no means an expert at crafting... yet. This post is about a cake stand I made for my friend Marisa. Her birthday was August 31st. She received her gift on MY birthday, October 28th. It takes me a while...

My dear friend Marisa is an amazing baker. I was lucky enough to live with her my freshman year of college, and I do believe she was responsible for 13 of my freshman 15 pounds that I gained. So when Pinterest told me I could make her a cake stand from terracotta pots, I was so down! Here is how I did it:

Step one was actually finding the terracotta pot and saucer, which seems like a simple task, however, it was not. Did you know planting was a season activity? With the cold weather slowly rolling in, planting supplies were hard to come by. I lucked out with the actual small pot, which I found at Michael's. However, finding the right size saucer had me running ALL over Westchester county. I did finally find one, at a Home Depot, in I-can't-even-tell-you-whereville. But I found it. I found the real cool turquoise paint, and decided that would be a perfect back drop for one of Marisa's pretty cakes.

After the turquoise paint had tried, I began personalizing it a bit, with a funky design on the stand, and of course, her monogram, because no proper lady has belongings without her monogram being displayed proudly all over it! (My sweet Marisa Rose Meade!)

The finished product looks a little something like this!

Be on the look out for another gift that I am continuously working on, for my best friend, whose birthday was three days before mine (October 25th...). Hopefully she will receive her gift on Thanksgiving...