For The Love of Sewing Baskets and Boxes!

I just don't know what it is about me and boxes. The sewing baskets, yes, I can understand those of course, but boxes of any kind seem to draw me in. Paper, wood, tin, fabric whatever it is--except for plain old ugly brown utility cardboard boxes--I don't have a thing for those. I mean we do need some boundries right.

So I thought I'd share a few finds of weeks past that I haven't gotten around to posting yet.......

Yippee! I found a little white wicker 1950's sewing basket. I LOVE these! This makes my 2nd one. I scored this one for 2.50! I have a yellow one, so now all I need to make my set complete is a pink one and a green one--at least that's all the other colors I've seen them in. If I find out they come in more colors I'll have to have those too of course!

And all on the same day at the same thrift store I found these four little gems. Somebody else must have had a box fettish too and foolishly parted with them. Lucky for me! See the little blue box in the background--that's the kind of box that has no rhyme or reason to collect, other than, well I thought it was pretty and I can store something in it--like fairy dust, wishes or dreams or something of the sort. The clear glass box I think I will find a collection that needs a home to put into it.

And this little dresser box tickled me pink to find. I've been searching for this type of dresser box and finally found one! Of course I'll need more, because well that's just the way it is! Don't ask questions, just accept it.

Now this one I wasn't so sure about, but I do love it and I'm glad I brought it home. It's actually a German candy tin and it's stamped West Germany on the bottom, so it has some neat history to it too.

Last, but not least is another sewing basket. Sort of a fan shape and the outside is all natural colored too and I envision it all gussied up with some ribbon and flowers at some point. It'll probably store some sewing treasures, now that it's retired from being a working basket.

So there now you know yet another one of my many weaknesses--boxes and sewing baskets.

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