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Leftover paint chips, leftover jewelry box

September 15, 2010 by Erin Heaton

This was another incomplete craft from years ago. I had attempted to makeover this jewelry box. It used to have some needlepoint on the top. I can’t remember if it was gone or if I removed it. Either way, I painted it black and then stopped. (I am really good at doing a project up to 75 or 90 percent completion and then abandoning it.)

It was sitting on my work bench all dusty and gross when I decided I should just finish it. I had some leftover paint chip circles sitting there as well, so the two kind of matched themselves.

This was a super quickie project to use up leftovers, and I’ll probably use it for craft storage, so I wasn’t interested in spending a lot of time to make it look perfect. I glued the circles down with Elmer’s Glue All, then once they were dry, covered them in Mod Podge.

The inside wasn’t exactly smooth or pretty, so I Mod Podged some scraps of pretty wrapping paper (leftover from our wedding invitations three and a half years ago!).

Normally, I’m not a fan of the distressed look, but the box was kind of dinged up, so I lightly sanded the surfaces just to knock off the shine.

This was the last of the long-unfinished craft projects in my house! Hooray!

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  1. Dan says

    September 15, 2010 at 9:18 am

    Awesome! Now we can move onto the projects that have been unfinished for just a short time.

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