Reply #17: I made trunks and large keepsake boxes out of old cardboard and [View All]

[polly7]

brown paper bags. Layers and layers glued together, stained with wood-stain and lacquered. I scrounged for old piano hinges and antique clasps, cut some tin from my Dad's scrap pile for corner-guards, antiqued and glued om stickers and photographs I'd printed off, lined them with velvet from an old coat and, voila ......... cheap Christmas gifts that looked really good.


The trunks turned out better. I ripped up another old leather coat and braided strips for the handles. Total cost for everything was probably about 30 dollars for two trunks and 5 keepsake boxes like the one above.