Christmas Box Dioramas, Pt I

There's always one holiday art project that wraps me up,

that makes time stand still while I am working on it.

 

 Last year it was "Christmas in a Jar" Dioramas, like this one above
 (click here  to view that post).  Most of them sold for $16 each.

This year it was these Christmas Box Dioramas.

I used about every vintage box I could lay my hands on.

So many, that this will actually take up two posts.

 Deer friends in a cigar box.

The reindeer background was a page out of an old Christmas book.

Sold for $14.

 For this one I used a slightly imperfect sewing drawer.

The background was part of an ornament box.

 This is a very tiny old dovetailed box.

I found the tiny Merry Christmas tag in my stash.

(Well, all the Christmas doodads came from my stash,

and these dioramas about cleaned it out.)

Sold for $8.

 Last year I had all of these great Christmas light boxes,

complete with lights -- and none of them sold.

So this year I repurposed them into dioramas.

And they all sold for $18 each.

 Love the old lights on this one.

 I snapped up this little box of ornaments just last week

(and had to pay more than 25 cents.)

I knew it was the perfect size for my tiny nativity figures.

Tune in Friday for the next installment of dioramas.