Making a Vintage Tool Box Display

Total Time: 3 hours

Yield: 1

Source: google decorating bottles to get ideas

Supplies:

• 1 black spray paint
• 1 white craft paint
• 1 thin wood
• 6 old bottles
• craft misc., buttons, flowers, etc.
• 1 wood block
• vintage items to display
• 1 old tool chest

Steps:

1. I cleaned it and then painted the inside with silver spray paint, leaving some parts of the original exposed to keep the antique/vintage look.


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2. I mounted a few of my grandfather's old tools on the lid.
3. I found a "Love" sign at Walgreen's from the Valentine's Day clearance and a vase from Goodwill and flowers from and Dollar Tree $4).
4. I spray painted various bottles (some I had and some were glass soda bottles) and decorated each one with odds and ends of crafts items I had on hand.
5. My husband cut the wood letters and I painted them white.
6. Then I mod podged vintage catalog paper (or scrapbook paper could be used) on a block of wood with routed holes in the wood to hold the bottles in place.
7. Here it is on display against a photo wall.