You know what they say, when it rains, it pours.

It has been raining here a bit lately, but in this case I’m referring to toolboxes.

I seem to come home from every neighborhood garage sale with one or two toolboxes.  Plus my friend opK has found a couple of them for me.  And, my reader Vanessa has sent one up from Iowa (thanks again for that Vanessa!).

I hope that the market for upcycled toolboxes doesn’t dry up any time soon, because I have quite a few on hand to paint.

Here is where today’s toolbox started out …

It was pretty dirty, and starting to get a bit rusty.  So I gave it a good scrub, followed by sanding down some of the rust.  Then after letting a coat of Dixie Belle’s Bonding Boss dry overnight, I painted it inside and out with their French Villa Silk Paint.

Once the paint was dry, I used my electric palm sander to distress it back quite a bit.  I wanted to bring back that worn look.

Once I’d wiped away any dust from my sanding, I started creating a design using the I.O.D. By Any Other Name transfers.

I began with all of the images that had white roses.

But ultimately I decided to add in a couple of pink roses on either end at the bottom to fill out the space.

I added a butterfly and a bee too.

Although the Dixie Belle Silk paint doesn’t require a topcoat, I gave the outside a coat of clear wax to protect the transfers.

With that, I have to get outside and clean up a bunch more toolboxes to prep them for paint so I’d better get at it!

This toolbox is for sale locally, you can find those details here.