The box on the left is one I bought last night at Tractor Supply Co. I needed something to put my taters and onions in on my bakers rack and this was PERFECT! If anyone has a TS around, they have all their fall decorations on clearance at 70 percent off! Originally this box was $22.99 and I got it for $6.89!!! It's nice and sturdy, very well made and has handles cut out on the sides. They had a smaller one priced lower, but I can't remember what it said on the front plate....I may have to go back and get it, just because! They had all kinds of wooden fall decoartions but THIS was a BOX! The box on the right is one I bought at Value City when I was shopping w/my MIL last weekend. I thought it was too kewl and would be perfect to hot cocoa in for on that table in the kitchen. If I get around to it, I may make a batch of the hot cocoa powder and put it in a mason jar and put a jar of mini marshmallows in the box too. I did that last year w/another box.
Okay, this isn't a box, but I got it at TS also. I paid $3.89 for it to hang by my back door. It's a little tacky, but we have chickens and I loved the rusty washboard part. I could take it apart even if I wanted to...lol Yeah, the walls inside the little porch look like that...I was trying to strip the old paint, but it is soooo cracked and thick that I wasn't having much luck as you can see. And it's too bumpy to paint over, it would just cause more mess. We decided it would be easier to just cover over them w/new plywood and paint it. The rest of the house is vinyl sided, but they didn't do inside the porch there. On to more boxes...
This was the first box I bought after we got married. I think it cost $5.00 or something...I don't decorate w/ cabin in the woods kind of theme but I really liked the duck on the box! It just sang to me from the shelf at the store, so I had to buy it! 
This box sits on my craft table...it doesn't really have a use right now. Last year it was the hot cocoa box on the table in the kitchen. Yes, there are scribbles on the wall there! lol This is the room I have to get painted before Christmas! Back to the box....I found it at a little store down the hill that I love to browse through. I have bought other boxes there, well, I guess they are actually long drawers from cabinets that I use as boxes. I didn't take pics of those. My long drawer was hanging on the wall and was used as a shelf before I painted the dining room last year. Right now, it is just sitting on top of the cabinet in the bathroom.
Well the jack'0 lantern isn't really a box...but kind of. My mom picked some of these up a few years ago and we let the boys paint them. I think they need a little primmin' up now!
Here are a few other box-type things I love. The old drawer is one my mom had sitting in her dining room and she was planning on hanging it on the wall. After months of seeing it sitting on the floor, I suggested she let me take it off her hands! The tote on the table was a gift from my husband...he finally (after years!) figured out that the only place he needs to shop for me is at the little store down the hill! lol I told him,"If it's old and it's wooden, I'll love it!" Christmas' and birthdays have been much happier for me since then! lolWell, that is all for the box show today. As I was sitting here, I was thinking of all the other boxes that I have that I forgot to take pictures of. But they will have to wait for another day.
And this last picture is one I will always treasure...it is the first visit with Santa for Gannon, and Calvin and Brady still whole-heartedly believed in the magic of Christmas....now they are pre-teens and not so much believing anymore. He was the BEST looking Santa we ever went to see.
I made this barbed wire crow wreath and outhouse sign years ago and they have been hanging outside my bath ever since. I think they fit perfectly on that small wall (yeah, the NEXT room desperately in need of re-painting! I'll be getting to that soon!). The barbed wire is from the fence line along the driveway, and the piece of wood is one I found and it just said 'I am an arrow sign' to me, so I cut the ends (left the old nails in it-one above the U and one right at the top corner of the E) and painted me a sign. I had no idea where it was going to go at the time, I just know I saw tons of them online and I had to have one! I thought it may go in the kitchen so it would point the way to the bathroom for guests, but when I decided this wall needed something, luckily, I had cut and painted it the right way to hang beside the bathroom door. Unfortunately, I have that alot....unplanned-dumb-luck when I am making things! Okay, you got a peek at my shower curtain, so that is the next view:
Okay, this is not what I really wanted the picture to look like...the sun is WAY too bright this morning to get a good picture- but you get the idea. The flooring DEFINATELY has to go now. TOO much pattern going on! lol But this is what happened- I was looking for a certain pattern in a shower curtain, but the store I went to did not have one in...and maybe lucky for me. They had the pattern in curtains, but had the shower curtains on order and they would have taken 2 weeks to come in. I compared my paint sample to the curtains they had, and was not sure at all if it would go with what I was currently painting on my walls in there. I actually wanted something close to the black checked placemat on the back of the toilet in the picture. Anyhow, I was in a bit of a time-crunch (as you probably could tell from my post that day!) so I picked out this shower curtain. The lady informed me that they did not have matching window treatments for it, and I decided I would just pick one out in a plain color that would match. No biggie-except I discovered when I got home that I totally forgot to get one! I was too busy making sure I had gotten all 6 sets of curtains that I needed for in the kitchen and in the correct sizes that the valance for the bathroom just slipped my mind! It was okay- my bill was high enough as it was! But there I was in the middle of painting and trying to get everything else put together for my MIL's visit and had no time to go back to the stores to get something for the window in there. My solution? I pulled out 3 plain, muslin colored, dish towels I had bought to stitch on and hung them over the rod! It really didn't turn out bad for a quick fix, and my MIL had no idea until I told her! lol Actually, in looking around for some kind of rug to go on the floor, I found that I have one in the same colors as the shower curtain- just in stripes! It's on the floor in the pic, but needs washed now- nothing light colored stays clean for long w/these 3 boys and 3 puppies! BUT I do have another one ( I found them at a great price so I picked up 2) so it will be nice to be able to swap them out for washing. I didn't get my shutters done either, but hope to get them done and up before Don sees what I am doing! He is not going to like them- they will be black and primitive! They should cover the bottom half of the window. I am really leaning toward black accessories in there, so I am sort of glad I didn't hold out for the black checked shower curtain. I really don't like everything being matchy-matchy anyhow. Here is the picture I took of the sink area:
VERY plain for now. I plan on making a shelf for under the mirror (yeah, that is the cheapie I bought the other day- I didn't find another so I kept it for in there- for now), in black of course, and have it drawn up on the wood, but need to get it cut and put together. The wood is from a small, unfinished end table (?) that I picked up at yard sale for a few bucks. There were 2 of them (both for $4 I think) and one seemed like they made it right, the other seemed like they messed up on measurements and so they gave up on both. I pulled the messed up one apart and it should make a right-nice shelf for in there. Now the cupboards....I want to paint them BLACK too! But that DEFINATELY has to be done when I KNOW Don won't see what I am doing- he would never go for me painting over finished wood! I am nervous just thinking about it, myself! They are starting to show a bit of wear and will need refinished anyway, so why not in black? I just keep thinking I need more stuff on the walls- and looking around for things I can make for in there! I thought about painting some frames black and hanging 3x5 pics of my boys taking baths (as babies w/ nothing showing!) down the right side of the mirror. I would print them up in black and white or sepia...Maybe I'll have to go ahead and try it to see what it would look like. The last picture, again, is not a good one for showing colors...the walls are actually a nice tan- Natural Bark I think is the name (from Walmart). That darn morning sun! lol I took pictures in my kitchen to show you my new curtains in there, but it was soooo bright that it made my walls look like a lemon-y yellow! yuck. So that will be a picture for another time...tomorrow possibly.