About a few months ago, my Mom and I had a lovely girls day where we spent the day perusing craft stores. She’s a crafty girl like me and we both love to make things. One of our favorite stops is to a small store in St. Louis county called Red Lead. Red Lead specializes in hard to find materials and has a gorgeous array of papers and stamps.
One of the items I picked up that day was a small plywood box with a removable plastic cover that slides out. It was exactly what I’ve been looking for to display the countless little knick knacks that I’ve collected over the years. I painted the box white and then cut small pieces of paper for the back of each partition.
I didn’t start this project with any sort of plan in mind, I just started glueing and placing items that felt right.
Here’s the first box the upper left hand corner.
The focal point of this one is the vintage “Little People” person. I got the doll in one of my whimsy swaps that I participated in over on Craftster. My swap partner had told me that when she was a little girl, she was sick and bedridden quit often, her “Little People” were toys that were very special to her. The circles in the background were from a big jar of vintage whimsies that I bought from Naughty Secretary Club on her Etsy. I also like the couple under the big mushroom.
Here is the lower left hand corner box, which might be my favorite.
Like I said, I went into this with no plans. The birds in this part kept coming in. There’s a total of four, the larger pink one was a cupcake pick that I just snapped the stick off. On the back wall is a vintage Japanese bird pin. This part ended up with a “sweet” feel.
This is the first of the two larger areas, they seemed to take the longest! On the very right side against the “wall”, is a huge rhinestone button that was my Mother-in-Law’s from her dress shop. I like the blue princess phone on the left wall too.
The teacup needed something in it to add some height, the rubber pig was perfect.
Do you see the ninja? 
One of my favorite parts of making the whole box was getting the skull with glitter into a vintage measuring spoon. To the right is a tiny bottle filled with loose silver glitter.
Can you see what the Eskimo’s sign is saying? I also like the flying pig!
And here’s the last one, the lower right hand corner.
That’s a vintage spool that I wrapped with some embroidery thread. The tiny timer is also vintage and actually works.
Finally, I took some pictures of the angles so you could get a better idea of the little touches on the inside sides.
Whew! This was a huge post!
I loved making this and it took me a few weeks to reach the point where I was happy with everything.
I have a favorite box, what’s yours?
