Thanks 'nonacook' and 'jeannespines' for your comments and encouragement! :) I liked the 'turned over' cup idea as it gave a more casual look to it....as if someone had been careless and knocked over the cup. :) I'm making another 'tea-cup' feeder where the teacups are upright. I have a metal candle-holder that I am going to glue 3 tea-cups to that can be suspended from a tree. pixie_lou, The smaller teacup bird feeders would hand from an "S" hook in a tree. I haven't actually put one up yet so they may need a loop of rope to keep them from swinging off the "S" hook and falling, but when I hang them from my finger they are level and balanced. I'll test one out today!

Luna took the words right out of my mouth!! A very pretty gift & the seed wrapped so nicely!! If you are in any spring craft fairs I would think they would sell well that is so attractive. But ata Fair you would need to come up with a cheaper stand. Copper will be very nice for your mom but in lot of places it gets stolen. Won't you need something to screw into??? or is that something hanging down that can slip into a pipe. Just galvanized pipe painted would be cheaper I think. It would last for many years!! Jan

While it's not exactly a teacup, I had this jumbo Cheerios cup and saucer from Christmas a couple of years ago and it was sitting in my cupboard taking up space. Never knew what to do with it. So I made a birdfeeder out of it. All I did was glue the cup to the saucer with that Gorilla Glue, that stuff really sticks and then I glued an old jar lid onto my cut off broom stick and then I glued this to the bottom of the saucer. Worked like a charm and the glue really holds it together. This is the second one I've made. They're really pretty easy. For the time being, I just filled it with water, we have so many gackles around, if I was to fill it with sunflower seed they would eat a bowl a day. Ha ha.

Use only GOOP products. They take longer to cure, but they're the only things that will hold up outside. A caution, however, glueing the copper cap to the saucer will work temporarily...if they never remove it, it'll hold up for a long time. But there is really no glue that will hold up the lever action that would occur by repeated removing the cap from the copper stake. I've been making garden stakes for MANY years, I sell them and I have been through every single incarnation of them. I hear all the time from people who tried to make them but failed. That's why I'm still in biz! haha. Your candles will be awesome. We did this one year for Mother's Day gifts, and they were a big hit. I glued spoons to the saucers, and in one, where the cup was chipped, I glued the spoon into the cup over the chip. Poured the wax in (I colored it brown and added cinnamon scent), let it set up and it was really cute.