boxes

I like boxes. I make boxes. I have made many boxes it seems. I make boxes from different kinds of wood - cedar, walnut, cherry, Brazilian rosewood and osage orange (fancy name for hedge) to name a few.

Some boxes are big, some small. I make the smaller sizes. I call the boxes I make "keepsake boxes." I don't know if that's a good term or not. It depends on what one keeps in the boxes I guess. Some of the boxes I make are from logs that need to be "worked down" and made into boards first. Quite a job for an old man. But in the end I enjoy being able to do it.

What to do with these boxes? Some I have given away, to family. Hopefully all of our grandchildren will have a box sometime. We have kept some. We use them for handkerchiefs, sewing stuff, some little keepsakes, etc. Nothing we couldn't use something else for, but its just nice to have a little box to put this stuff in.

We also have big boxes. Only one smaller one that I have made and one made by one of my ancestors. I have made some big boxes in my lifetime. By big boxes I'm talking about what are mostly called "chests." But chests are boxes, simply stated. They have four sides, a bottom and a top that opens. Isn't that a box? I think one of these boxes is in our family somewhere, and one is in Clara's family.

Do you have a box, or boxes? What do you keep in your box? Do your boxes have hasps and locks? Most of mine have hasps without locks, except one perhaps. I probably won't make too many more boxes, only perhaps if some sort of special wood becomes available and I don't know what else to do with it. I can always make a box.

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