I've gone all arts & crafts on you this week to bring you...fanfare please....a
Rebecca Bakes Cakes blog giveaway! Now I have been known to have an original idea every now & again, however I have to hold my hands up & confess that this idea has been stolen with pride from a good friend of mine. It combines two of my favourite things, music & cake, so when I saw these stands stacked with cupcakes at her daughters' party, I had to have a go at making one myself.
Trawling the charity shops of Windsor looking for vinyl was an experience in itself, turns out the residents of the Royal Borough seem to be quite fond of Howard Jones & Engelbert
Humperdinck (way too much
Humperdinck) I picked records I knew & loved, so my stand ended up with a rather eclectic mix of the original film soundtrack of Mary Poppins, Tears for Fears - Shout & Love Affair - Everlasting Love. Make of that mix what you will...
I've also made a special 80's edition to give away to one lucky reader!
This stand combines, Erasure - Circus, Danny Wilson - The Second Summer of Love & Owen Paul - My Favourite Waste of Time. It's a marvellous medley of 80's pop! To be fair I don't really know the Danny Wilson track, but 10" vinyl is remarkably hard to come by, so had to take what I could find :-)
It's very sturdy & dead easy to dismantle so you can store it flat. I love a traditional chintzy china cake stand, but this vinyl version will definitely make a bold statement on your tea table & is sure to get people talking about the tunes!
To be in with a chance to win my 80's-
tastic vintage vinyl cake stand, just leave a comment below or email me at rebeccabakescakes@hotmail.co.uk to say you're in. If you want to share a guilty music secret, then feel free, I won't judge! Quite frankly I have too many to mention, but to get things started I queued on Oxford Street for hours to meet 90's
boyband Let Loose, I've been to see Cliff Richard not once but twice (with my Mum!) & I am the proud owner of a CD signed by Shed Seven. You get the idea, it's musical catharsis!
Competition will close at 11.59pm on Sunday 29
th May 2011. International entries welcome! Good luck,
Rebecca x
Hopefully I'll be able to bring you another giveaway soon, just need to wait for crafty inspiration to strike again! In the meantime, I'm open to taking orders for more vinyl cake stands, got to be a market for them somewhere? :-) Rebecca x
Hopefully I'll be able to bring you another giveaway soon, just need to wait for crafty inspiration to strike again! In the meantime, I'm open to taking orders for more vinyl cake stands, got to be a market for them somewhere? :-) Rebecca x
