Top view of the drawers.
I was given a small set of 6 drawers, in bad condition. I rubbed as much of the paint off and decided to cover it with some pages from a 1903 French magazine that I was lucky to find on a market stall in Brittany. It is full of beautiful pictures and adverts. I photographed some of the pages, then printed them. Some had a natural sepia look and others I 'aged' a little. This is the top of the unit.
The ad which has amused and intrigued me the most is bottom right,
"A scientific discovery from America for anti - wrinkle cream" There are a number of other ad's that you might expect to be modern products, i.e. antiseptic mouth wash and a variety of 'health pills'. I had a lot of fun looking through it and then using copies of it to cover my drawers.
This is a full page copy from the magazine and is on the side of the drawers.
Side view of the drawers.
Another full page that I coloured after printing. Such beautiful hats!
Front view of the drawers, with a little aging treatment.
At
a craft club that I attend, we decided to cover boxes in a variety
of materials. My choice was paper, so I found a use for lots of small,
left over pieces. I also had other paper materials to make use of.
The bottom left is covered entirely with postage stamps, British and
foreign. What a good and attractive way to recycle stamps. It is a
shame to throw them out. I used to save them for the library for some
charity, but they stopped taking them, so voila! Another use for them
was found.
Another box, originally pine and for utensils . I picked it up at a
charity shop for a small amount. It needed some attention, so I covered
it with copied pictures from the above-mentioned magazine. The red
colour was copied from the back of the French magazine. I coloured some
of the other images, to give them more appeal. Useful for brushes or
pencils, etc