Jewellery Box Mini and a little Competition

I've been seeing quite a bit of chatter of forums about people making mini books for 18 year olds and I realised that I hadn't actually seen alot of projects aimed at teenagers, especially girls. I saw this as a challenge and decided to create something that would be suitable.

I created a jewellery box with a mini book inside. I used the gorgeous Bo Bunny Garden Girl collection for this. Here's a few pics.

This is the outside of the box.

Inside the box with minibook
A sample of one of the pages.

Once this was finished I decided to do a masculine version. I did it in the style of a poker table and it is this version that I demonstrate on my videos below. The box is so versatile that it can be turned into anything; a school desk for students or a writing table for the literary aficionado. The possibilities are endless.

I am a complete novice and actually demonstrating making something on video. I was really terrified because it's a one take job - you can't undo what you've done if the video goes wrong, so I apologise in advance if the camera work isn't all that nifty or for any other recording errors. I had to do it in three parts because it took longer than anticipated.
First a few pictures of the poker table. As above the pics are of the outside of the box, the inside and a sample of one of the minibook pages.

For some reason the last picture insists on displaying the wrong way and I don't know how to fix it.
The mini book in this version is from Laura Denison's Envelope Pocket Mini Album. Here is her youtube video.



Here are the videos. The videos are a demonstration of how I made the box rather than what one would call a class. I did a lot of preparation in advance so as to keep the videos short ... well... shortish.







The written instructions are below. They show pictures of the girls version and the instructions on how to make the mini book inside the box are also included:

Jewellery Box


Now for the Competition

Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win the Jewellery Box together with the mini book. I will pick a comment at random on 01 October 2011 and send the box to the winner. Make sure to check back here on 02 October to see if you have won!!

No Wheels

I've had these photos on my table for ages waiting to be scrapped but for some reason couldn't actually get the mojo to do it.
The photos are of my gorgeous little Eli going to school for the very first time without his wheelchair. Many of you will know that Eli was born with Spina Bifida and he has limited mobility. He started walking independently about 6 months ago. We were informed by the school that he never uses his chair in school and is very happy to walk to the different rooms he needs to get to, so basically his chair was his vehicle to and from school. As he goes to school with a van, we discussed witht the school the idea of him going without the chair, so as to give him a greater sense of independence and the idea was leapt upon. Eli's doing great without his chair and he loves the freedom of being able to walk around on his own.
When I saw this sketch on the Bo Bunny blog I loved it and was immediately inspired to get scrapping.
Skech was created by the gorgeous and talented Carin McDonough. Her layouts are awesome!!!

I interpreted the sketch very loosely so I'm going to say that my layout is inspired by the sketch rather than fully based on it, if that makes any sense at all.
I had sort of decided that I was going to use the Bo Bunny Cambridge collection for these photos, but then, considering the subject matter, I liked the symbolism of using the Liberty collection.
My initial idea for the title was "Look! No Wheels", but the combination of the freedom theme and the USA style Liberty papers made "Independence Day" the perfect title. It seemed very serindipidous that these papers came out around the same time that we made the decision to give Eli his independence.
Here's the layout