DIY Lazy Susan Serving Plate

Several months ago I made a rotating lazy susan turning tray based on a beautiful handpainted DIY Lazy Susan Serving Plate my sister-in-law, Stacy put together.  She used an ornately decorated plate she found at World Market and glued it to a Rotating Turntable Lazy Susan.   I have been on a quest to make something similar to that ever since.

Earlier this week I found myself at an annual holiday craft fair I like to help my mom with.  My mother is a master with fiber arts and makes beautiful things.  Part of the fun of helping with this fair is walking around and seeing all the handi-crafts and tasty treats at each table.  I found a nice older woman who had all sorts of hand-painted wooden things – trays, plates, little tables and small dressers.  I loved her designs, in particular a red stained large wooden plate with hand-painted flowers and leaves.  I instantly thought of my mother-in-law when I saw this plate and her amazing Thanksgiving decorations.  I decided to buy that plate from the nice old lady and make a lazy susan serving plate to gift to my mom-in-law for her Thanksgiving table.

Here is a pictures of the plate I found at the craft fair:

Hand-painted and stained serving sized plate

On my way home from the fair I stopped by at our local Ace Hardware store.  I called first to find out whether they had a lazy susan mechanism I could use to glue under this pretty plate to make it turn.  They told me they had a few sizes so I decided to go by and see the options.   I ended up going with the smaller sized lazy susan device (meant to be screwed into corner cabinets).  It had 4 flat sides on the corners so I figured there would be enough space to glue it down to the plate.  I spent around 5 dollars on the small turn table mechanism.

Here is what the turning device (lazy susan) looked like when I glued it to the back of the plate:

Lazy susan device glued to the back of hand painted plate.

I thought about using my handy glue gun to get the lazy susan attached to the plate but went with Tacky glue to get a flatter drying glue effect.  Glue gun glue sometimes clumps up on me unevenly.  The Tacky glue worked well.  If you go with Tacky glue remember it takes time to dry.  I let mine dry over night plus a few more hours in the morning.

I also picked up small Adhesive Vinyl Pads from Ace hardware to stick on each of the 4 corners of the lazy susan mechanism.  If you look closely at the photo above you will see the small round, rubbery pads.  I put these on to keep the plate in place when it is being turned.

So basically, aside from the serving plate, I only needed three things to put this lazy susan serving plate together;  the lazy susan mechanism, the Tacky glue and the adhesive vinyl pads.

Here is a photo of the glue and the pads:

That’s it.  I will put in a video of the pretty plate rotating.  It turned out so nice and I can’t wait to give it to my mom in law and see it on the table for Thanksgiving!