Steampunk Wedding Cake-Stand for Cupcakes

That's the answer to yesterday's teaser! All the crafty ingredients from the pics in yesterday's blog (and a few embellishments on top) were used to create a Steampunk themed cupcake stand for the wedding of my good friend B and her lovely husband J.
And here it is

I'll zoom in for a close up of some parts so you can get the feel of it. To me it would be what you might get if you used bits and pieces found inside the Tardis.

 There are old watches and chains in each 'compartment' of the bottom layer (4 compartments made by the struts holding the next layer up.








All the layers above are held up by wooden struts which look like the parts on old bi-planes and are anchored down with leather threads.

 There is a central core of brass through every layer with coils of brass wire and sticky see through dots rather reminiscent of Dalek casing.

And the whole lot edged with hand dyed black lace which makes it look patchy and old, rather than just buying black lace which looks rather too new and pristine.

I didn't make the knitted, light-up cake with figures on the top. That was some other clever soul.