Request: Small jewelry box

RE: Request: Small jewelry box Post By Elaine (Guest Post) (04/25/2004) My husband made a wooden jewelry box for myself & our daughter. His hobby is woodworking. I've been painting some things on wood & we've been giving them as gifts. Last year he gave 2 nieces a jewelry box, which will be past down through the generations. Kids keep things for a long time & a wooden jewelry box with your ideas painted on it will have a lifetime worth of memories, besides they have all the memories of jewelry given to them. I have made several for friends from plastic canvas. Post by admin2 (369) | (12/02/2000) Contact I have made several for friends from plastic canvas. I am very bad at regular sewing, but find plastic canvas very easy to do. You can make the size you want, in the persons favorite color, and use a nice design for the outside, or even the person's name on the lid. You can make sections in shapes and sizes for rings, bracelets, earrings, pins, and whatever else. You can make a deep box, make the section dividers half the depth, and place a lift out top section, also divided. KayD Link: http://CookingForFun.tripod.com To make a nice inexpensive jewelry box ... Post by admin2 (369) | (12/02/2000) Contact To make a nice inexpensive jewelry box you can go to the craft stores and buy a wide assortment of sizes and shapes of the heavy cardboard boxes. Take them home and paint or decorate in anyway that suits the person. Contact paper works but can be tricky. These are also nice to put potpourri in, little soaps or other little things! Good Luck! Kristy Get on the web and look under crafts. Post by admin2 (369) | (12/02/2000) Contact Get on the web and look under crafts. I am an avid rubber stamper and I have made many cool crafts (including jewelry boxes) by finishing unfinished, wooden boxes with a combination of sealers, rubber stamps and embossing powders and sometimes Chinese papers. It really depends on what you want to do. PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange) has some of the coolest projects in their catalogue. It is the most comprehensive stamp and project site that I have yet to see. Also go to their links site and see what you can find! Alouette - Wasilla, AK Link: http://www.inconnect.com/~ginwood/ HGTV Post by admin2 (369) | (12/02/2000) Contact Try HGTV and log onto Crafton Village. Carol Duvall did a segment on making boxes from different thicknesses of illustration cardboard. These can be modified for all sorts of sizes and take only a little time to make. It's the decorating that will take some time. Decisions, decisions. Caroline Link: HGTV