DIY craft- Tutorial to make Sandook(Box) from waste boxes

Sandook is a box , which is used earlier days for storing precious items like jewellery. These were used by king and queens of India for the storage of their jewels. Now also there is a big Sandook in my mother's place, in which many old books are stored. Inspired by the sandook, I made similar box, by a cardboard box.

Sandook made of cradboard

  Here are the steps how I made the sandook: 

I had these two waste cardboard boxes . One was small and another quite flat one.Here are those boxes:

Two packaging boxes

To making of semi circle sides is quite difficult as it requires exact measurement. I measures the side of the box, and with half of its measurement drew two  semi circles on the card board:

Drawing the semi circles

 Then cut the semi circles along its boundaries:

The semicircles required for the sides

After cutting , the semi circles, bent the other card board piece of same size as the box. And attached the semi circles made out of cardboard on both the sides. The steps are illustrated in image number 4,5,6 and 7. Now the  portion of  of the sandook is made.

Steps to make the lid of the sandook

Next attached this top portion to the cardboard box, with fevicol and a cloth. The reson behind using the cloth was to make it easy to open the lid.

Attach the lid with a cloth on one side of the box

To this box attached  ice cream sticks all over the box, as illustrated int the below picture:

Attach ice cream sticks

It is now ready for painting and decoration! Painted with wood color and attached shiny tape along the corners.

Paint it and attach the border along the corners

Now the sandook is ready for storage:

Sandook is ready

It is now placed in my shelf  which was decoupaged , in my craft room.

I have stored all valuables like my spectacles, pen drive, and some electronics items in this sandook, so those will be easily accessible, as I keep forgetting the place where  kept those.

Will share about some more DIY crafts in coming posts.

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Recycling an Old clock with Warli designs

The gifts given by our loved ones are always preservable.  However old it is, our heart doesn't allow to discard such gifts. This clock I have also one such gift, which was gifted by one of my friends. It has the pulses framed. Slowly the pulses were getting spoiled.

I didn't want to discard it or give it to someone, as this was a gift from my friend. So thought of giving it different design. I like Warli designs. In my previous post I have shared about the Warli design wall decal.
I unframed the clock and removed the pulses from that.

After removing the pulses

 Warli paintings are basically made by the tribal people. I always feel Warli designs look very nice with earthy orange and white.So I painted the clock with earthy orange color .

After painting the frames with color

And finally drew the Warli designs on the frame as well as inner parts, in white. And framed it again with glass.

After painting with Warli designs

This is how it looks now on the wall, representing  memories of my friend who gifted me this.

Clock with Warli design on the wall

Its better to recycle the things, according to the latest trends, rather than throwing or discarding it.  Recycling not only gives new look ,also refreshes the memories associated with it. 

Learning making murals on siporex blocks. Soon will share about the same soon.

Until then-

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana