I’ve got another box makeover for you today, and once again I forgot to take a ‘before’ photo.

Well, no worries, it was basically just a dark brown stained wood before I gave it its new look.

This box definitely appears to be homemade, maybe some sort of high school shop project?

See those grooves that have been cut in to either side of the box in front?  I think they were meant to be decorative, they are on all four sides.  But they are pretty wonky.

Anyway, as you can already see, after my usual prep of cleaning, scuff sanding and a coat of Dixie Belle’s Bonding Boss, I painted the outside of the box in their Drop Cloth.

After sanding to distress the edges, I applied some of the florals from the new I.O.D. Flora Greca all the way around the box.

I’m calling this the front …

but you could just as easily call this the front …

As for the box top, I dug deep into my transfer stash and pulled out my old favorite, the I.O.D. Label Ephemera transfer.

As most of you know, it was retired years ago.  At this point, I buy one whenever I find it at a reasonable price, but they are getting harder and harder to find.

Now, I have to first apologize to any French speakers out there.  I re-arranged the layout of a few of the lines of text to get them to fit nicely on the box top.  I suspect they may not make a lot of sense now.  I hope it’s not too crazy.

As you can see, the top of the box is not hinged, it comes right off.

That brings me to the inside of the box.

It’s painted in Dixie Belle’s Blueberry with a top coat of their flat clear coat.

Along with the Madeleine lunchbox that I shared last week, I think this little box would make a super sweet Easter basket if you filled it with some chocolate bunnies and candy easter eggs.

What do you think?  Leave a comment and let me know.

This box is for sale locally, you can find all of those details here.