Storage boxes

As promised, this Fall Feature I will share some boxes that I just finished yesterday. Remember when I did the quilted storage boxes? Well these are similar but a little different at the same time.

Funny how as my girl gets older and more mobile throughout the house her things start spreading over too. She used to have all her toys in her room back when she was a tiny wee lad, but now that she plays and plays and mostly out in the living room, it was time to make some nice toy boxes for her in the living room to go with all this extra playing.

We like to buy whippies and diapers (when we do buy the occasional disposable for her out and abouts and our traveling) in bulk boxes because it seems to be lots cheaper that way and they seem to last forever (which means one less lovely trip to the store, yeah!). So it also turns out that these boxes are perfect sizes for our book shelves, which means perfect toy boxes. But I had to spruce them up a little of course.

So here is how they turned out. . . .

 This basket was my first inspiration, I liked the idea of have the cloth inside, so I used the inside as a pattern.

 Then I painted all the boxes a nice simple black

 Almost ready and dried!

 For the inside I cut 5 pieces, two long ones for the length of the boxes, two shorter ones for the width of the boxes and one more for the bottom. I used the above cloth inside piece as my guide but if you make these on your own you could just measure your box and make sure the pieces are a little bigger to allow for seams.

 Then I sewed all the pieces together, having the smaller ones in between. Then I  sewed them all together to make a circle. Then I sewed it to the bottom piece. Then I sewed a circle of elastic on the other end so it would sit a little more snug in the boxes. Here is how the final products turned out. . .

 The top box I store my books that I don't want my little girl getting into, but the rest are her toy boxes.

 More toy boxes!

And then a box for all her musical toys.

And of course we can't forget they are all matchy matchy, which if you know me, I love it when I can make it work out that way :)

What do you think? I love how they turned out, and they didn't cost me an extra dime cuz I used stuff from what I already had. Yeah for saving money! :)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day! Come join me tomorrow for a "Sun-up Saturday!"

Until next time. . .