oooooooooh shiny!

Went to Heanor Antiques Centre today, on the look out for Christmas presents..... didn't find any but did come across some more vintage christmas ball-balls - £2 a bag, there were some other colour combo's but none had the white pictorial ones in, which match my ball-balls from last year ; )

 

I thought the cone shaped one was made of wood, but once I had a closer look I realised it was tightly tied cotton, same as the two small ball-balls.

Who ate all the cake's?

What better way to display yummy homemade cupcakes than on a brightly decorated cake stand. I wanted a 'proper' tiered cake stand fro yonks, but all I kept finding were single tier glass one's. Then I spotted this in an antique shop and it had got my name on!!  Well, maybe not..... but it was fate and therefore I just HAD to buy it.
And now of course, I have to keep baking cakes to use it becasue its too pretty to just sit and gather dust.