Wood box craft

So I spent Saturday prepping things for the wedding - invitations finished, another 14 wine bottles wrapped in yarn and a new project.  Ryan's mom had given me these bunches of roses that she used for Ian and Jen's weding and one of Ryan's cousin... and at the time I just didn't think they'd work... but low and behold - we RADified them.  When I shopping at JoAnn's, I found these cool wooden boxes which I loved... after putting the flowers in them... presto.  It had simple, classy, country wedding written all over it.

As easy as it would have been to just go back to JoAnn's and buy them... Ryan figured we could make them for cheaper and we could make them customized to the exact shape we wanted.  So to Lowe's we went and only $45 later, we left with the materials to make 14 wooden crates.   Ryan then cut each piece to size - the bottoms and sides were 8 inches by 1.5 inches, the top part of the sides were 8 inches by 1 inch, the ends were 5 inches by 3 inches.

Then Ryan let me man the staple gun and he held each piece in place for me.  And thankfully, no trips to the emergency were had!

And tada, 14 custom wooden boxes!

Check 'em out!  Love them.  Now I am just going to so some stenciling on them with either Est. 2012 or Ryan and Abbey or something else cool.