A "wristwatch"?

   So, we finally got to this box and whats hiding in there!

   Again, as with the money box from the previous post, I used an old tatty watch-box (this time a wooden one). I forgot to take a picture before starting the whole metamorphosis process, but it was pretty old...

... dusty and beat-up. So she decided to bathe in glue to refresh herself and was just coming out of the shower when grounded egg shells were sprinkled all over her! She went to take a shower again but the new layer of glue did nothing but fixate even stronger the miniature pieces. She took a look at herself - actually, it wasn`t that bad... but definitely colorless and lacking individuality.

“If white is so boring, black as an opposite color should be very exiting! Hm... no, far too dark and still lacking personality. Yes, of course! Classic in two colors - no way of going wrong, right? Em... it`s still kind of trivial... it lacks originality and the creative element... It has to be something exiting, alive! In constant movement, developing, even if it`s a frozen one dimensional image. It has to capture the colors of... the Universe!”

It reminded her of colored Easter eggs, that she`d seen somewhere... Now that her hair was done she could think about the outfit* too. But it should be co-ordinated with the occasion and that present that she would carry...

   Mmm... Oh, sorry... I might have drifted off... You haven`t found something more interesting to read in the meantime, have you? Now, where was I...

   The box was pretty beat-up on the outside and completely bared on the inside. For the exterior I used my current favorite “egg-shell”-technique, then I colored it with acrylics. The inspiration for the coloring technique came from my favorite Easter eggs that we tint adding vegetable oil to the egg-paints, once they have a base color on. Pretty cosmic-looking designs coming out with this technique! I thing I managed to recreate the look quite good.

                     

 

   After that I started working on the interior. I wasn`t sure what to do with it for a long time. It didn`t seem enough to just cover the inside with felt... and I also needed some kind of structure to accommodate the object that it was being made for. So I made a bulge in the middle (using a piece of a toilet-paper roll covered with felt), on which to fixate the wrist-“watch” (???). To cover the inside of the lid I used fabric for the sides and felt for the top and for the container part I did exactly the opposite, draping the fabric over the bulge. It was a pretty fiddly job, but I managed to do it without smudging glue all over the place!

 

 

   And this is the thing that the box accommodated!

   Some time ago I made a similar gentleman who, unfortunately, still hasn`t found an application. The second addition to my “Time-men” series (as I decided to call them) I made partly by request, with one condition - to be wearable as a wristlet. So I had to make the actual wristlet too - it took some time to design, because I was wondering how to make the closure, but using three separate pieces of leather and a couple of small strips for the loops, I feel it came out pretty good.

   The curious thing is that the different part and materials that I used to make it had travelled the distance between Bulgaria and Japan twice, even before the finished “watch” take one last trip with final destination somewhere in Bulgaria. As I understand, the recipient is pretty happy with it too, so the project can be considered successful!

   I`m thinking about making more of these... faces and to turn them into “watches”... or something else... Any ideas?