As if it wasn't enough to make 24 different designs/a total of 187 Harry Potter Christmas Tree Ornaments, and documenting the whole process in a blog, I also decided to make nice boxes for each Harry Potter Christmas Ornament Advent Calendar gift. I have acces to a wide variety of small cardboard boxes through my work as an anaesthesiologist, so collected lots of them.
Being a sucker for easy solutions I originally planned on spray-painting them black, silver and white, but after using almost a whole can of spray paint to cover just one box and make it nice and white, I realised that my so-called easy solution wasn't such a quick fix after all. I therefore bought self-adhesive foil in black, silver and white, and spent three nights covering 23 boxes with that foil. Some turned out great, some not so great, but passable. I hadn't gotten quite enough foil, so for the last few boxes I found some left-over wallpaper from our living room. I tried spray glue, but that didn't work so well, so I ended up using some wood glue that we had at home. The wallpaper-boxes actually turned out the best, ans it was neither more difficult nor time consuming than the foil. I will stick a photo of each ornament to each box, and that way my daughter will always have designated boxes to store her ornaments between Christmases. That way I hope they won't break during storage, and thus last longer. Below are just a few of the many boxes I made.
Being a sucker for easy solutions I originally planned on spray-painting them black, silver and white, but after using almost a whole can of spray paint to cover just one box and make it nice and white, I realised that my so-called easy solution wasn't such a quick fix after all. I therefore bought self-adhesive foil in black, silver and white, and spent three nights covering 23 boxes with that foil. Some turned out great, some not so great, but passable. I hadn't gotten quite enough foil, so for the last few boxes I found some left-over wallpaper from our living room. I tried spray glue, but that didn't work so well, so I ended up using some wood glue that we had at home. The wallpaper-boxes actually turned out the best, ans it was neither more difficult nor time consuming than the foil. I will stick a photo of each ornament to each box, and that way my daughter will always have designated boxes to store her ornaments between Christmases. That way I hope they won't break during storage, and thus last longer. Below are just a few of the many boxes I made.
Just one more day now, before the decorating of the tree begins!
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