The ABC Boxes

I've been waiting to post this since Thanksgiving.... didn't want to give away any surprises.... now that Brayden received his Christmas presents... I'll tell you the story of the ABC Boxes....


If you remember last month at Holly's Craft Show I had made several Christmas items for sale... one being a Christmas Countdown project. Twenty-five decorated little boxes strung from a clothesline with little clothespins...

Well Darlene saw it at the Craft Show and the next week she asked me if I could make another set but instead of using numbers she wanted to make the ABCs... I knew she had something up her sleeve.. and sure enough she had a great idea to make a set for Brayden for Christmas.


So the plan began... but instead of using the Stampin' Up Kit with just 25 boxes, we needed 26 for the alphabet plus had ideas for extra boxes. I made a trip to Michael's (did I say that out loud?).... and bought the little Chinese take-out box containers in primary colors and some felt sticky alphabet letters to apply. Decided they were cute as is and didn't want anything more on it to be distracting (or possibly chewable). Darlene then took each box and fill them with items that represent each letter... clever hun? Probably mostly with toy animals as it seems easiest to find such items... A alligator, B bear, C cat, D dog, E elephant.. hummm.. wonder if she made it through to Z  ...

So over the Thanksgiving weekend, while we were up at the cabin I took this project along and got them assembled.  I think they turned out pretty cute even as simple as they are..... When Don and Darlene came down last weekend for Bunco, we made the "transfer" so she could get them filled... I'm eager to see the results... Also got the clothespins and clothesline so she could either hang them from the line or use to decorate their Christmas tree.

So here they are..

and see what I did with the extra boxes....

And guess what she came up with for the "X" ???
X-Ray Fish.. how clever!!!