A Christmas Gift for my best friend!

Good Morning

I am so very excited...... I will officially be on leave in about 4 hours from now.   Yippee.

I would like to share a box with you that I have made for my best friend for Christmas.  I made this box from scratch, I started with a piece of chipboard, put the measurements down on it and the started putting it together.  Since I have only started to blog about 4 days ago, I did not take any pictures of my little project as I went along.  But I have taken enough pictures to show you the result.

There are quite a few photos as I just absolutely had to get a picture of each side, they all looks different.  The main theme for the box was Magnolias, as I just absolutely adore them.  I will also enter this project of mine for a challenge, but first I will need to "ask a friend" on how to do this.

The top of the box.  My friends name is Marilyn, therefor the M.  I have used on old bottle top and glued the initial M in it and then filled it with some glaze.

A close up of the M.

This is the one side of the box.

When I saw this cross in the Christmas decoration department of the Checkers, I knew that I had to buy it and add it to the box.

A side view of the 2 sides.

The other side, with a sweet Magnolia image, colored in one of my favourite colors - turquoise.

The other side of the box, I covered this side with some handmade purple paper, then I covered it with modge podge and added some glitter to it before it could dry.

The completed box with the lid on.  I filled the box with hand made cards that my friend can hand out to other members of her family.

The cards were all made by me and I will share them with you at a later stage.

Have an awesome day as mine will be just great, starting with me going on leave.  We will be staying home this year as dear hubby is starting a new job on the 3rd of January 2012...... in the Cape and hopefully we will be joining him in a month or two.

Hugs,

Marika