Fifteen tiny treasure boxes. The intent was to make the boxes for kids ranging in age from one to 8. I’m interested to see how many of these will be around in ten, twenty, thirty years. I wonder if I can keep track of them. I’d love to know what will be kept in them.

Various wood -walnut, teak, maple, cherry, white oak. Beeswax finish. All of them have mitered and splined corners, with raised panel lids, just big enough to hold photos (roughly 7″ wide x 5-1/2″ deep x 4″ high).

Nine of them personalized with laser engraved names – something I was initially hesitant about. Great work from Morgan at Hall Printing in Trail – I’m really happy with how they turned out. The laser burns the wood just enough to color it (especially on maple) and removes the right of material to leave a crisp, deep edge on each letter that will last a long time. Really cool.

Engraved Maple and Walnut Spline Treasure Box

Four for boys and five for girls – I began by making the maple boxes with plain lids for the boys. What does a boy’s treasure box look like anyway? Then the bubble idea came for the girls boxes – simply randomly placed plugs in long pieces of solid stock. When you see the bubbles on the full lengths of lumber, all brought down to the same height, the grain from the backing material seems to make the bubbles float. It was almost a shame to cut them up. I quickly realized that this is was what I was looking for for all the boxes, not just the girls. I ended up with seven of the bubble boxes so there will be a couple of the “boy” boxes floating around out there…

It’s snowing too…