RENEW and REFRESH an old Baby Box

Have you still got your child's old

baby box. Are you hesitant about throwing

it away. Well dont do that. Refresh that old box

and use it for something else.

This is actually a very nice box that I picked up

at the thrift store. Yes it was a little dirty

but all n all - it was not bad. The box was

sturdy with no tears on it. I love boxes!

 You can see the dirtiness of the tabs that open the

box as well as some of the dirt on the inside.

Something red was in one of sides. You can still

see it.

 The bow was dirty but that is easy to replace.

Read those sweet words that surround the photo

of Pooh bear. We have to hide those words.

 Pretty butterflies are all over the box including

the bottom.

 Well here goes - this is what I did. I cleaned up

all of the inside slots in both drawers. Here you

see me cleaning up the red spot. I do not know

what was in this drawer but it cleaned up okay.

 Time to change that ribbon. I used the same kind of

white ribbon that was on the box. So glad that I had

some of it already left over from prior projects.

The old ribbon pulled out and with a safety pin I

pulled the new ribbon thru and tied it in a bow.

 I used a flowered scrapbooking paper that had

many of the colors of the butterflies that were on

the outside of the box. Flowers and Butterflies

coordinate.

 After I finished the bow then I cut out a

pattern for the scrapbook paper. All I did was take

a piece of computer paper and lay it on top. Then

with my fingernail I pushed the paper all around the

edges creating a pattern. I removed the paper and

cut out paper pattern. Then I traced around it on

the scrapbooking paper. The flower design is not

even glued in - I just placed it in the indented area.

This spot is also great to put a loved ones photo.

This would personalize the box and look great!

But I did not have that kind of a use for this box.

 The inside looks good with scrapbook paper. I

did not glue it down either in case later I want to

change it. The flowers look great with the blue green

checks.

 The scrapbook paper I already had, but I had to

buy the butterflies at the craft store. I looked

for flowers but I could not find anything that I

liked. These are butterfly stickers. They are

made from cardboard.

 I positioned the 2 large butterflies to hide the

words Baby. Then I used 2 smaller flowers to

also hide the words baby. The cardboard stickers

also had button pieces. So I placed 2 of those

button stickers on top. They adhered very well.

 This is what onse side of the box looks like.

 This is the other side of the box.

 I removed those old pull tabs that opened the drawers.

See how grimy they are. They got thrown away.

 This is how I replaced them. I used white ribbon

and threaded it thru one of the cardboard stickers.

The older tabs when removed left holes. So I threaded

the ribbon thru those holes to the inside of the

drawer.

 Here you can see where I knotted it really good.

Afterwards I trimmed up the ribbon.

 Now the box looks really good. Time to see what

I want to stuff in it.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my new box.

Next week I will show you what I used it for.

Thanks for visiting me!

Many hugs and kisses to you all.

Hopblogger