Hand Painted Wooden Boxes

Over the summer a good friend invited darling and I to go to Island Art Party with her and her granddaughter. I instantly fell in love with acrylics and this opened up a whole new world of crafting fun with darling daughter.

One thing about us is that we are never afraid to try something new and will always expand on what we learn. We also both have the passion to make everything around us a bit more colorful by adding personal touches. And with so much art supplies, we are always on the lookout for how to organize things.

Darling is drawn to wood boxes and we selected a few that are the perfect size for little jewelry boxes or for organizing any small treasure of your liking. To make them more snazzy, we each selected a few and hand painted the box tops with acrylics in a image that spoke to us.

Today I am featuring my Texas flag box. My inspiration was the wooden star I had painted white for another project but never used as something else seemed to fill the spot better. As I turned the star around and around in my hand I thought of the Texas flag and got to work with darling eagerly painting beside me.

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