Saturday, December 3, 2016

Jesse Brennan's personalized touches on an elegant Maple Box

This project started with a nicely made Birdseye Maple box that I obtained two years ago at the CLA.
Jesse has performed a masterful job of personalizing and beautifying the original with elegant silver detailing as well as adding extra carving details on the feet and lining the inside of the box with velvet. This box is an anniversary gift to my wife Barbara.








"Just a little box all covered with blossoms white as snow
Chinese red and made of brass that he gave her long ago
Like the red dirt Oklahoma hills and the springtime flowering trees
That she kept with all the love they shared inside her memories
She kept it on her dresser filled with gold and silver rings
Necklaces of turquoise, beads and other things
It filled her heart with the mystery and the magic of the day
When he gave it to her for her own in his quiet loving way".

In China or a woman's heart by Kate Wolf