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Step 1. Find an assortment of gorgeous patterned plates in graduated sizes from your local Op shops and Garage sales for only $1! This step is important, you are doing these on the CHEAP remember!


Step 2: Find a gorgeous Mr. Fixit to make these for you while you are super busy making cakes.  Biting lower lip while concentrating is completely optional.


Step 2: Drill holes dead centre of each plate using a power drill and drill bits the same size as your stand screws. You need to do this using a little water on the plate, pressing down *very* slowly and steadily or something like this will happen:


This will very likely happen quite a few times actually, so it's best to practice on your not so best plates.

UPDATE!  Since typing this tutorial, we have discovered 'diamond drill bits' which get the drilling done much easier without any breaks.  These drill bits can be purchased at hardware stores.


Step 3: Your stand kit will come with several plastic O rings, a metal O ring and metal bolt. The bolt goes on the bottom, underneath the plate, along with the metal O ring. Then the bottom plate and a plastic O ring before you screw on the first gold stand. Make sense? See below.


Make sure you put all the plastic O rings in between the plates and stands as this protects the plate from the metal. Screw all stands in semi tightly and securely. Not 'He-Man' too tight or this might crack your plate!


Step 4: Wash everything thouroughly and admire your gorgeous new cake stands!


I prefer my plates to be mismatched but in the same color range.

They get HEAPS of comments, be prepared to take orders from your friends!  These also make gorgeous presents...and cheap ones too!

Cake stand parts:
Australian supplier:  My E Room  This is my cheapest outlet I have found at $4 per stand set.
USA supplier:  I Wonder Too  An average of $8 USD per stand set.
Etsy search engine brings up these.
Plates: Sourced from Op shops, freebie boxes at Op shops, Garage sales.  Nothing cost me more than $3.

Cinderella is a lovely baby blue color with pink shimmer. It is on the sheer side and these swatches were 3 coats. You can still see nail line, but 3 coats just didn't dry so I knew 4 coats were just not going to work.


I made a franken mini flakie recently containing Nfu Oh 44, Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, Esmalte Espectral, Nfu Oh 54 and Australia Speck-takular! This is 2 coats over Cinderella with a coat of Seche QD.


Needless to say it was still soggy the next morning! There are bald spots all my nails where the polish just slid away.  Did Cinderella ever dry on you guys??

In Australia, Revlon's Starry Pink has been renamed Popular for some reason.....anybody know??


This was a lemming of mine for a long time and it took ages before it was released in Oz. Then of course, it was $14.95 so I refused to get it until Target had them marked down to $10.


This was 2 coats.


And stamped with Warm Black Konad, finished with a coat of Seche QD.

My Grandma Thelma. Rocking her leopard coat in the 1950's.   She is now 88 and still going full ball.


Australia Pin Up Pia Andersen.  Absolutely stunning. 


The impossibly perfect Aida from Bosnia.


Imelda May.  Rockabilly singer Extraodinaire.


Miss Amanda Lee from the Jitterbug Doll.


This wouldn't be a post without including to die for Micheline Pitt.


Australian Vintage stylist, Candice DeVille.


The eternally divine Bernie Dexter.

Who is your perfect modern day pinup?

I made myself a new necklace! And everytime I look at it I have that stupid Wiggles song run thru my head....."fruit salad, yummy yummy." Cathy from More Nail Polish, YOU will know what I'm talking about!!


The dress is new-ish. I got it awhile ago but the Ebay seller neglected to mention that the hem was completely SCREWIFF. I tried it on for the first time and was horrified to see the front dipped up, then down, and up and DOWN! A dressmakers visit later the hem was fixed and so was the hole in the side that was also not mentioned in the ebay listing. GRRRRRR.




50's Dress:  From a seller I am not going to promote, eBay
Shoes: K-mart
Necklace: Made by Me.
Fruit Salad hairclip: Swell Dame Accessories

Adam Ant came to Melbourne last weekend and we, of course, had tickets!  We are always first in line to anything 1980's.  And in the front row.




He's 57. You will all have to agree, he still rocks it!



Look for me in the front row!!  Next to hubby with the bald head....don't tell him I wrote that.

The concert was great, his focals were strong and clear and he rocked the stage jumping everywhere and posing. The only thing that absolutely ruined it was his floozy backup singer (if you can call someone who sings "ooohh ooohh" a backup singer) who kept reappearing in skimpier and skimpier outfits until in the end she showed up wearing only lingerie with suspenders. You could hear every woman in the audience groan with frustration....and even the men were strangely quiet.

  It was disheartening that Adam thought he needed to reduce the concert to such stunts, his performance was more than enough without dragging some floozy into the mixture whose sole job was to touch herself all night. I was very angry, women like her keep the rest of us in the dark ages.

Anyway, on to me. Hopefully the non floozy type.


This dress seems to be my concert dress as it seems to make an appearance when I need to shake my 80's booty. I teemed it up a huge red petticoat, fishnet stockings and my FABULOUS Tigerlily shoes. Teemed with Victory rolls and bright red and black eyeshadow, my look was definitely Vintage Goth.

Dress & Petticoat: Hell Bunny
Shoes: Miss L Fire
Tights: Retail
Eyeshdows: Fyrinnae

Did any other of my Aussie followers catch any of this shows?

A local shop had a full display of these and I grabbed a few of them. They were 2 for $15 and altho they are cheaper on eBay, I had the benefit of seeing the colors in person before buying.

All swatches are one coat and I used the 3 in 1 China Glaze magnet, as the Nabi magnets were very weak.



Cappucino.



Wine



Teal. This has a gorgeous gold shimmer running thru it which my photos didn't pick up.



Dark Gold.  Luv the glitter in this one!  Middle finger was 2 coats and I prefer the darker color.



Cinnamon. The magnet barely worked on this color. The photos actually show it more clearly than what it was in real life.



Dark Wine. My favourite. I love how the Wine red turns into an almost black around the magnetic effect.

What other Nabi colors should I be looking at getting?