I’ve taken a crack at a couple of the boxes from my recent windfall of boxes.

Starting with today’s makeover of this one …

I looked it up online and discovered that this case would have originally held a slide projector.  Gosh, I kind of wish it still had the slide projector.

I have a collection of my dad’s old slides and I really enjoy looking at them now and then.

I’ve even had a bunch of them converted to digital, like this prom pic of my mom.

Or this photo from a trip to Disneyland in 1969, back when the horses on the King Arthur Carrousel were brown (they were all painted white after 1975).

And P.S., I’m not in that picture.  I’m back in our motorhome in the parking lot because I came down with measles on that trip.  Can you imagine?  My parents left a 6 year old alone in the parking lot.  Times were definitely different in 1969.  My mom still swears that she checked on me frequently throughout the day, LOL.

Anyway, back to the projector case.

It would have held a little drawer to keep your slides in, and the projector.

But the one I have has been completely gutted.

To be honest, I can’t really think of a functional use for this case now, can you?  But it was still fun to give it an update.

I’ve done a couple of similar looking cases in the past, and in both instances I did not paint them, but just added transfers.

First there was the belle fleurs suitcase …

and then there was the record case …

Since I had good results with both of those, I decided to do something similar with this projector case.

I first gave it a good cleaning using a damp rag and a tiny bit of dawn dish soap.  Then, once dry, I added a floral transfer.

I also added some French wording to the top.

Finally I gave the whole thing a protective coat of Dixie Belle’s clear wax.

I did briefly consider keeping this case and just storing my slides in it, but they wouldn’t even come close to filling it up so I’d rather keep them in a smaller container.

Can you think of a good use for it?  If so, be sure to share it in the comments.

In the meantime, it will be headed to the growing pile of merch for my upcoming sale!