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Little boxes made of ticky tacky...

Well we all love little boxes and that's one of the best side effects of christmas.. that wonderful opportunity to amass more lovely sweetie tins and biscuit tins.  Sometimes there are so many I feel I can be quite blase about the less attractive ones.. cheaper versions having housed inferior sweets or lower quality biscuits and pop them in the shed to be used in an emergency.  We once used one to bury a dead mouse in!!!

Once the choice tins are assembled then its great fun to find interesting things to go in them.  Occasionally I discard lesser boxes and transfer contents to an upgraded affair but usually I look for a new collection or split an existing collection into smaller categories.

This year I had a bonanza box extravaganza... an absolute delight - not only the usual obligatory biscuit tins but giftie type boxes as well. 

First the lovely gift of a fabulous map festooned travel keepsake box.. perfect proportions for all those bits and pieces, souvenirs picked up along the way... the snippets and pictures I'm eventually going to make a collage with or papers, leaves, shells pamphlets which are just too pretty or interesting to throw away, bus tickets, supermarket receipts in a foreign language - they all have some where live now!  

I also got three lovely different wee sized suitcases. These I was very pleased with as I had relinquished a rather pretty specimen to Evadne a rag dolly I made for my granddaughter who ended up having a full wardrobe and needed personal luggage to house it in.  So I was delighted to receive similar but prettier substitutes.  


No idea what they will house yet... at the moment they are sitting pretty, I.m thinking decoupage scraps, and possibly my ever growing bead collection, its not a worry they will soon be full of something interesting.  The shoe box containing my 20 year collection of sweet wrappers and foils will be up graded to a rather fine M&S biscuit tin this year and the sweet tins will further split previous embroidery silks... I.ve probably got enough to have all colours coded and graded separatly now.
Does this make me sound tidy and organised ha ha ha ha..... this is the slam it a box Ruby Starrs treatment - if its in a box its TIDY!!!!!!
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