PROJECT: Mask Box
Added 2021-12-04 22:22:24 +0000 UTC
This is the entryway to our home. There's some photos of family members, weird artsy accent objects, and our mask storage vessel. Originally we were using a bowl, but the masks were kind of a big messy heap spilling out from it, so I recently repurposed one of the many sex toy boxes that I had saved in my stockpile. Matt calls it "hoarding" but I call it "This is a really nice box and maybe I can use it for something else someday!!!!"-ing.
The Orgasmatron (Look at my ancient art in this OJST review!) is a box of the highest quality, complete with magnetic snap closures to keep the lid-flap tightly secured shut.
First things first, I pulled some selections from my vast Fancy Paper Collection. The goal was to find something pretty but not visually busy, so it didn't distract from the other art and objects around the shoe cabinet. Ultimately, I decided on this nice brocade whose pattern glimmers cold when the light hits it.
Next up, I pulled the two sections of the box apart, doing my best not to warp the shape.
Glue!
Brocade attached to the topside of the lid-flap-thing.
Gluin'
Edges held in place while the glue dries using popsicle sticks and binder clips.
Tig assists in picking out which gold paper to use. Because I have many different gold papers. This isn't even the whole collection.
Gold paper selected! I went with a more flexible weight that appears a bit duller (and not at all mirror-reflective) until the light hits it, when it really lights up.
I am pretty sure I'm dyscalculic, which makes any and all math-adjacent activities extremely difficult for me, so figuring out how to measure and fit the interior lining for my decorated boxes is always way more challenging than it oughtta be. And yet, she persisted.
Tig knows where the focus of my attention is so that is where she wants to be.
Always time for a pet...
...before the removal.
Lining cut!
It fit closely enough!
Lining for the lid.
When lining an object with creases that will regularly fold open and closed, you need to account for a bit of extra paper to fit in and over the folding areas. Unfortunately, I mentally reversed the most flexible way to glue in the lining-- I should have glued it while the lid was laying open and flat, making sure to really press in the lining to the creases there. Instead I glued it in with the lid folded up, thinking that would provide enough lining give in the folds. But, no, of course not, what I did actually reduced the amount of give. Auhg. Behold: My Folly:
It's ok, I gave it some flexibility therapy afterwards and everything worked out fine.
Gold paper re-supply:
Originally I was going to leave the copy and illustration on the sides of the box, as an homage to its previous life. But after trying the new lid on, I decided the two didn't mesh together so well, so....
Golden cover-up. I left a rim of the original black around the golden rectangles, just as I left a top line of the hot pink inside the box, all as a nod to the box's origins. Also, that bit of decorated orange paper was some leftover from one of my Daily Gratitude mini-collages I had been working on right before cracking back into this project.
All pieces lined and ready for assembly.
Glued bottom.
Books to weight down the box onto the lid.
Tah-dah!
See how the gold lights up with the light hits it?
Welcome to our home!
If that one framed picture caught your eye-- I do not blame you! When I saw that frame at Goodwill, I knew just the family photo to put in it:
That's our little Alabama, who may have gone on to her Forever Home elsewhere but continues to live on in our hearts to this day.
Comments
Tig: “I AM HELPING”
Rachel Fleming
2021-12-10 01:44:20 +0000 UTCI love a Good Box! We have at least two large boxes filled with Good Boxes that We Cannot Possibly Part with. One is labeled "Small Boxes and Weird Things That Are Like Small Boxes". This is a really helpful tutorial, too, as I often want to make boxes prettier
Rachel Shadoan
2021-12-07 17:31:43 +0000 UTC
