Sunday, 6 July 2008

Mystical Box

As I was chatting to my son on Thursday evening over the telephone, he asked me to put him a few photographs together of him over the years and particularly ones of me and him together, he says he hasn't got many. So as we recently purchased a scanner, I shall find him a few.
However, I started to look for a box to put them in....I could find a nice sturdy one, the right size but it still had the remnants of stickers on it. So I decided to alter it. Now, I have always avoided this altered item thing, it holds too many visions of Blue Peter (which I hated), egg cartons and something amazingly useless and ugly at the end of it. But, I went against my principles and covered this one with Basic Grey Paper. I wanted to make it fairly mystical as I know Cal will appreciate that so the image on of the top is actually a tarot card image, the "World tree". This was taken from a delightful tarot deck "The Sacred Circle Tarot" by Anna Franklin and Paul Mason. If you have never seen the deck, check it out, it is beautiful particularly if you like celtic and pagan imagery.
I added a few stickers and embellishments along the way and think it will do for the job.

5 comments:

Macpurp said...

thats a great gift!
I love the tarot card image on the top.
I love photo's.
started with a a few in frames in my living room wall and now its a gallery, but I love how it looks.

love Tina xx

soulMerlin said...

a lovely post and i'll look up the tarot deck

the fool

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Emma said...

Chrissy its beautiful...you've done a great job on it! Not been able to post 'it' to you as Belle is not well but will put it in the post tomorrow...promise! (Am now sat here wetting myself with laughter after your views on altered things....you'll see why!! LOL!) Hugs Em.x

Inspiration Alley said...

Beautiful box and I'm sure Cal will love it.

CarolineH1972 said...

absolutely beautiful chrissy, I love the tarot image - definitely need to check them out cos I love pagan and celtic :-)