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This took me perhaps the longest time of the whole thing, but I believe the results are worth the effort.

Warning: massive picspam behind the cut!

- First, I cut circles of 5 cm diameter into every side of the outer box, for windows.
- Then I cut out round frames from gold-coloured cardboard, with a diameter of 6 cm and a breadth of 1 cm, for the window frames.
- Then I glued cellophane on the inner side of the windows with double-sided tape.
- Then I cut out 8x8 cm rectangles from light blue cardboard, pressed dolphins into them in high relief with the help of a handy little tool and painted the dolphins gold and white with acrylic paint. When the paint was dry, I glued the blue pieces to the inside of the windows, so that the dolphins would be visible through the cellophane.
- Finally, I glued 6 acrylic stones in a circular pattern on each of the window frames to symbolize rivets.

This is what the finished outside of the outer layer looks like:



- After the outside was finished, I took 4 pieces of double-coloured cardbiard (blue/green and a nice, brown and ochre vintage pattern, respectively), and cut them all to 6x7 cm pieces. I folded back 1 cm from the longer side and glued them on like flaps (or small doors).
- In the middle of each of these flaps I glued on the circles of the gold-coloured cardboard that were left over from making the window frames and glued a big N letter (for Nautilus) in the middle of each circle, 2 in teal and 2 in turquoise. I added decorative edges to the lfaps from the same gold-coloured cardboard.

This is what the inside of the outer layer looks like with the flaps closed:



- Then I glued the printed-out, hand-coloured sea creatures onto pieces grey cardboard (left over from the middle layer) and glued them behind the flaps.
- Finally, I cut out a 8x8 cm piece from a maritime-coloured origami paper and glued onto the bottom of the box.

This is what the inside of the outer layer looks like with the flaps opened:

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