Do You Love Antique Toys?

I Do !!! And if you do as well, then you are in for a treat :) I have to show you a new piece I just finished up. I was inspired by those wonderful old german jack-in-the-box toys...you know the ones where there is an old vintage clown head inside a wooden box and does not have any crank music......

Like this one here...........Well this is the piece I just finished up and I truly adore it !!! It came out better than I expected....and it works too! It was a fun project and got my creative juices flowing, definately a one-of-a-kind piece.......

I started out with a plain vintage wood box and an old spring. I covered the box with vintage graphics that I reproduced on my computer and made the ellyfont jack-in-the-box and secured it to the spring. You can push him down into the box....close it....and then when you open it he actually springs up like a real jack-in-box would.....toooooooo cute!

I just listed him on ebay today so if you want to see more pictures and details about him, you can take a peek and see more .....just click on my left tool bar links for ebay....

Hmmmmmm.....I had so much fun making this guy....I'll have to search around for another vintage box to try another :)