Nov 21, 2014

Tiny dresser

I was inspired by this picture of a cute tiny dresser. It's made out of matchboxes (link to tutorial I saw)


So now that I have been collecting matchboxes for a year I decided to make one myself. How hard can it be, right? It's just gluing and covering the sides with paper.  

So, here's what I had:
● empty matchboxes (I didn't even think they could be differently sized (and of course I  collected them for a year so they WERE a little different))
● some glitter paper, glitter, glue
● nothing to use as handles

And here's what I made:
●  a big mess (glitter, paper everywhere (cats helped a lot here))
●  nine handles made out of folded paper (this took me about two days to think of, first I searched            through all my buttons and beads unable to find anything and unable to understand how are they          going to work??)  
●  a hole in my finger (from stabbing the "drawers" with scissors to put paper-handles through)
●  a blood-stain in one of the "drawers" from stabbing myself
●  many bits of dried glue that I pulled off of my fingertips
●  and well, a slightly crooked tiny dresser

The worst part was definitely making the handles, I had to wait at least 10 minutes for each piece of paper to dry and just hold it until it did, otherwise it just straightened out again :) :) But at least they are definitely not going to fall off now... I think... maybe...

1 comment:

  1. Very nice dresser, I think it's very beautiful! Thank you cats ;)

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