I haven't been able to work as much on the memory box doll as I'd like. Little things like working on freelance projects, getting the house ready for family (my in-laws are coming to visit) and trying to find a glass saucepan.
Why the glass saucepan you wonder? Well, my MIL is going to teach me how to cook a few of her mother's recipes for Passover. One of them is for apricot candy. Apparently you can't cook this in a metal pot or the candy will get an unpleasant dark color. So the mad hunt for a glass saucepan. I didn't find one until after I'd exhausted two malls and too many stores to count. Visions, that old glass cookware company, was what I was hoping to find. They used to be inexpensive pots once sold at establishments such as Target, Wal-Mart and even your neighborhood drugstores. The story that one helpful clerk at the Corningware Outlet store told me that it was discontinued until bought by a French company. So now they are making it once again, just at double the price! But the apricot candy does sound intriguing so Visions saucepan it is. I'll post how all the recipes turned out next week, which leads me to my original subject.
Here's the little "cookbook" for the interior of the memory box:
The exterior. I used the beautiful silver glass beads from my MIL's mother's flapper dress to add new strands to the basic yellow tassels. The buttons are faux "bakelite" from my LQS - the rhinestones are also from the flapper dress. The top, bottom and sides of the box aren't finished because they'll be covered with the doll parts later.
And the interior - scrapbooking paper for the side walls, yellow silk covered with yellow rose lace for the back and the two interior door panels. The right side has the little French bulletin board effect using yellow silk ribbon and little french knots. The "vase" is a little salt shaker that one of the ladies in the doll class gave to everyone - it was another thrift shop treasure. And finally, the yellow paper roses, because my MIL's mother loved yellow roses and the color yellow in general.
I'm really hoping to finish this by Tuesday night so that I can show it all doll club. But so far I'm pretty excited by this project.
