Creative Outlet: Fasteners Box

This is a project that I'm finally getting started on after thinking about forever. Actually, I was inspired by a "quiet" book that a friend of mine had. It is a handmade cloth book, and on each page is some kind of fastener, that when unfastened, reveals something. Long before seeing that book, I'd been thinking about covering some of these small boxes with felt and hiding photos or other small toys in them. But after seeing this book and watching Thora's growing interest in all sorts of fasteners, I decided to create a box with many different fasteners in and on it, some of which need to be unfastened in order to open the box. I'm in the early stages so it looks a little rough. But I'm pretty tickled that it's finally coming to fruition that I wanted to show it off.

Here is the top of the box. There are two large ladybug buttons and below them, a large hook-and-eye fastener. These are hot-glue-gunned to the top of the box, which is wrapped in felt. (The edges look pretty rough, but I'm hoping to edge them in a length of felt.)

And once the box is opened, there are suspenders, with "overall" fasteners.

I have more big buttons and fasteners that I plan to work into the inside and outside of the box. Stay tuned for the completed project!