A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mancraft Monday

The very first thing you should do is go look at my inspiration piece here. This started out as a very manly craft. Stain! Woodburning! Popups! I started out down that path. Then I started thinking, and you know that always leads straight to trouble.

My parents' 50th wedding anniversary is coming up at the end of next month. Wouldn't a popup photobox be a neat little gift? Instead of stain and woodburning, I thought I'd paint it to match the decor and decoupage some gold glitter stickers on it. (Only the gold glitter stickers turned out to be silver, so I needed to find a way to go gold...and ended up with glitter paint and stencils.)

The inside had to be lime green, since both my parents' houses have lime green couches. (If you ever wondered who would buy a lime green couch, now you know.) I was going to make the accordion from black paper, but it didn't look right. Hot pink it was.

And just as an example of how this will look filled with pictures, here's a shot of me with my dad and Maggie at my 8th grade graduation back in nineteendicketytwo. Alright people, I have to find a way to cram three crafts into the next day so that the dude and I can take a little trip to NYC.