Greg offices from home and has for many years. Recently he has decided to make a change to another company and that all goes down next week. He is spending the week tying up the ends at his old company so he is ready to go into his next adventure. I’m so excited for him and I know he will love this move to the new company. Again he will be working from home and I needed to solve a problem we have always had.
Greg gets packages throughout the week. Some large but for the most they are small. Depending on who delivers the package determines where it lands on the porch. We have a very nice mail man who loves our Cooper. He always puts our packages on the bench on our porch. But the Amazon, UPS, and FedEx aren’t so consistent as to where they TOSS our packages. Toss is a kind word because they start the toss about 15 feet from the door. My sidewalk isn’t that long people , you can at least get closer to the door. I’m hoping this project will solve this problem and they will be more consistent with package delivery. We will see how this story ends.
I had this wood basket in storage. I found it in a thrift store over a year ago. It’s just been hanging out until I found the right place in a Blue Happy design. It had a terrible paint job with upside down flowers. Not sure what that was about maybe they were implying dried flowers. Who knows what they were trying to do, sometimes the things I find are hilarious. I sanded it down a bit to smooth out the paint job. I used Valspar Project Spray Paint in a beautiful teal blue. It took 2 coats to cover the mess that was on this wood basket. I let it dry for a few hours and then sanded down the edges. Sprayed it with a couple of coats of Valspar clear finish and that’s it. Before I put it on the front porch to take pictures I made a cute little tag that say’s “Packages Here Please”. How simple is that to make a place where mail or packages are placed.
This box will go into my Blue Happy Living booth at Doc Holliday’s Emporium. I’m going to make a box for our porch made from wood that was harvested from Greg’s home town. It will have special meaning to Greg and the wood is so beautiful. There are so many things you could use to make a package box. Depending on what and how often packages are delivered to your home. We will need one a bit bigger than this one to hold all the packages on those busy days. I think I’ll start out by placing the box at the front of our porch and slowly move it to where I want it. Train those delivery people just like a kitty cat or puppy dog. Once again something that was so ugly but had good bones recycled to organize a part of life. Organizing makes life totally Blue Happy.
