Make it; tiered cupcake stand

So my lovely sister-in-law moved out this week and is into indie-chic-DIY-recycled stuff so I made her a tiered cupcake stand out of some things I picked up at Vinnies!

NOTE: you can use this for anything; to organise makeup, store nick-nacks or as somewhere to chuck your keys!

(all together this project cost $6!)

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So here are the materials you'll need; some plates of different sizes, and some glasses that are a similar height. You'll also need a hot glue gun!

I was a little worried that a plain white plate would be too boring, but it ended up really working as a break between the other two colours and ended up to being better than another patterned plate.

The smallest size is actually a set of coasters!

I decided to get two different sized glasses that were a similar height

So first up I cleaned the plates - the glasses were pretty dusty and it took a while of soaking in warm, soapy water to get the sticky residue from the stickers off.

So this part is the trickiest bit because you need to work quickly and accurately. You'll need to put hot glue all around the rim. If you take too long the glue will dry and loose it's sticking power. But if you work too quickly it can end up a bit messy, and once there's glue inside you won't be able to get it out at the end.

My advice is to hold the nose on the glue gun close to the rim. 

Then stick the glass, rim-side down, into the middle of the first plate.

Then (and this time you don't have to be so neat) hot glue like crazy! Then stick the next plate on top.

Then repeat the process!

Until it looks something like this! ^

I then adorned mine with cup-cakes!

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Let me know what you think, if you make it yourself or have any other variations you've seen or done!