I gave in...

[wiseheart]

Originally, I wanted to use the cardboard from my gift box set for the baby journal. But the size just didn't fit; it would have been too much fiddling, with no guarantee that it would actually work. So I decided to make the journal cover from a cereal box, as before, and make of the remaining pre-cut cardboard sheet the two larger gift boxes as they were supposed to be used.

Here is the result:



The sides of the blue box are decorated with self-adhesive acrylic stones that I once bought for no other reason than that they were relatively cheap. I used some of them for the Japanese paper dolls, and now most of what was left for the box.

There will be pictures of the insides of all five boxes, once I've filled them with paper grass and cotton wool, respectively, and put the homemade little marzipan, coconut and nougat eggs in them. The inner sides of the lids are decorated, too, so I'll make sure that they'll be visible then.

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I actually learned sewing on Grandma's old Singer machine, but we had to give it away after a while because we simply needed the place it took up. Our flat is fairly small; so my cousin took it and put it into their "nostalgia" chamber, together with Grandma's old bedroom furniture.