A friend of ours turned 4 recently and we put together this little wooden box for him. I buy these empty unfinished wooden boxes at Michaels. I had a supply of cigar boxes, but have used them up. (Local Portland folks—you can buy empty cigar boxes at Rich's and they have some really cool ones.)
I keep these boxes on hand and fill them with paper dolls, or stamps, or small books. That kind of thing. I've used them for making sewing kits. I used a deep size here to make a wooden box-purse.
So, in this box we have:
- Homemade blank books made with images printed from Agence Eureka's amazing vintage ephemera collection. (I asked her first and use them for personal use only.)
- A few fabulous pencils from The Small Object.
- An absolutely awesome stamp set from Yellow Owl Workshop. They have several styles, all of them very cool. My kids LOVE them as do I.
- A little stamp pad.
The ombre paper came from Martha's craft line. I think I got it two years ago. I tried to find an image over at Martha's site (wow, it's so hard to use!) and got too grumpy and instead found a very complete selection here, but not exactly what I used. The letters on the top of the box are stickers I have had forever. I'm not even sure where I got them. The map on the inside from the box is from a real map we had.
I love making toys and kids gifts so much. I try to make them only with items I already have in the house. This means I need to probably get out more and that I have a scary amount of awesome supplies in my art room.
Happy Summer Solstice today! And Happy Birthday Grammie!!
