Basket Display Boxes

Can flat basket organizers find a more decorative purpose in life?

Why, yes, they can.

Why, yes, they have.

I picked up these two almost-alike baskets to help organize paper in the house.

However they happen to be waiting around when I was using the green homemade paint on the vanity.

Woe is to anything in my path when I have a loaded paint brush in my hand.

I was so involved with churning out the projects, I forgot to take in-between pics.

I slathered a thick, chunky layer of the green paint (a silvery sage color - almost the same as the dining room wall).

After the baskets dried, the adornment process began with strands of wired rusty stars decked out with torn cotton ribbons.

I decided a number was needed and chose "10".  

For no real reason except I was free-hand painting it and those two numbers are easy to paint on wicker.

I could have chosen "8" because there are eight stars.

But, well, whatever.

I attached a rusty wire loop on the back for hanging.

Then I hung them on the wall and tried them out as display boxes.

Success!

Oh, I did go back and add Pearl, Pearl, the Prairie Girl tag to each.

I can't seem to do a project without Pearl.

The old photos and the bottle brush trees look quite at home.

These are now available at Riverfront Antique Mall.

I may have some more in my future.

See y'all!

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