Buffalo Check Mail Box Organizer
Organizing is my word for the New Year!
I'm beginning right here and now with the mail.
The mail in my house is something that needs organizing.
With 2 girls in college and 2 girls married with children, the mail is not always addressed to us.
After 2 and 5 years of marriage their mail still comes here. Is it too much to ask to change your address? LOL
Well I needed a way to organize all this mail!
Or at least a place to store all the mail that isn't addressed to me or my husband.
And here it is...
I found this old decoupaged wooden bin at a garage sale recently.
I scraped off the 70's decoupage with the orange shellac... you remember that don't you? On the black lunch box?
Anyway... When I scraped off the decoupage, I sanded what was left off the front of the box.
Next I painted the piece with Raw Silk by Fusion Mineral Paint... it's one of my very favorite whites!
Then came the fun part.
I used the buffalo check stencil by Old Sign Stencils.
You may remember the buffalo check sled I stenciled during the holidays.
I used Fusion Mineral Paint in Mustard, which is a gorgeous color to stencil the design.
When the stencil was dry I cut a stencil using my Silhouette machine and stencil vinyl.
The design simply says mail, that'll work.
I stenciled the word then added an enamelware tag to the top with the house number.
Now anyone looking for their mail when they stop by will know exactly where to find it!
And look... there's the Spring 2019 edition of Country Sampler Farmhouse Style!
It has my galvanized steel bin storage featured inside!
It was that easy to turn a 70's wooden box into a stylish mail organizer that's going to organize my mail and
my life a little!
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