Altered Jewelery Box

I altered an old jewelery box of Madison's for a friend of mine.

and this is the story of this project

It turned out Great, 

but it wasn't an easy project like I imagined...

It started out like this...

I had to mix the pink paint to get the right color, and it took lots of coats of paint

So,of course I ran out before the doors were painted, and didn't have anymore to mix, oops!

So, I had to come up with something to do with the doors...

Wow,  what a happy accident! I think the door look great with purple! 

 the doors had really ugly plastic inserts, so they had to go! 

I made these with pretty pattern papers that incorporated both pink and purple.

 Then, the handles on the door had broken, so I had to come up with another idea for handles

I used some vintage earrings and cut a hole in the center of each and painted all the handles black.

then used a screw to hold it all to the door.

 So, there is my not so quick, quick altered art for a gift. 

But it really was fun!

And so totally cute ~ I almost wanted to keep it!!!

Lots of Love,