Manic Mama Miles: The Next Chapter: Book Pedestal Cupcake Stands

For the Book Themed Baby Shower, I used books as risers for different dimensions on my table. I also wanted to use books as cupcake pedestals & I saw this great idea here from Anders Ruff. I started with a few old books that I no longer read. I found paperbacks to be the best for this project. The first step was to take off the cover.

Then, you just fold each page in half. I recommend not using books of more than 200 pages. That was a good amount. For the book pinwheel that you will see at the bottom of this page, I had a short book that they were recycling at work that I thought would be a great height for some other pedestals...yeah it was 660 pages so after I folded each of those pages in half, I was not interested in making another one that size to use as another pedestal so I used it as a pinwheel instead. : )

Here is what the top of the pedestal winds up looking like.

And here is what the side looks like. How cool is that?

This was my "dry run" where I put all my post its around the table where every decoration & food item is going to go until I am satisfied with the set up. OCD? Uh yes, very. : ) You can see one of the pedestals here on the left side of the picture. Another was put on the right side when I moved that book.

To showcase the cute mini-book cupcakes, I put some books I have around my house on top of these pedestals & then set the cupcakes on top of the books.