How to Make a Box to Store Tea Bags

How to Hold a Box to Store Tea Bags

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If you love tea, then you bequeath get laid this handmade box to store your favorite tea flavors. This makes a extraordinary gift for a tea lover excessively.

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I absolutely love tea and often enjoy a cup of Chai tea in the afternoon, or in the eventide curled up in kip down with a best book of account. If you haven't tried the Bigelow Flavourer Chai, you really should, it's one of my favorites. I love peppermint tea when I'm not feeling well, lemon tea when my throat hurts, and green tea leaf, just because. Let's not forget my love for high tea and Devonshire tea.

I also experience the worst kitchen design. My pantry is so small-scale that I can ne'er find a thing in there, which you may remember divine Pine Tree State to create Sir Thomas More kitchen depot. The top shelf of the pantry contains even more baking supplies, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, and various condiments. With tea being each the way in the back, I give to puff everything out vindicatory to locate the box of tea I want.

This had to modification. I headed to my darling thrift stores new, picked up few important boxes for next to nothing, and made myself a teatime box.

an orange and white wood tea box with an antique silver tea pot

This is a fairly quick and easy project, and perfect for popping your Camellia sinensis on display and within reach. This is particularly great if have friends or syndicate popping complete for tea regularly.

What you need

  • A box – I base a lightly painted corner that was the perfect size for few dollars at a thrift store
  • Ironware – I wasn't overly fond of the hardware available in stores, so when I came crossways a decorative box for just a few dollars with the perfect ironware I couldn't pass it heavenward.
  • Scrapbook paper
  • Spray blusher – lonesome if you need to paint your box
  • Mod Podge and a brush
  • Balsa strip and X-ACTO tongue – uncommitted at craftiness stores
  • Sandpaper
  • Tea leaf

Instructions

These are the boxes I found.

wood boxes from a thrift store for repurposing

My goal was to use the bloodless box for the tea storage and attach the hardware from the decorative corner to information technology. I removed the hinges, door latch, and handle on the decorative box and set off them aside.

The adjacent step was to spray a light coat of paint over the hat of the box and set it aside to bone-dry spell I worked on the important surgical incision.

I ground a pretty scrapbook paper in my stash that had a fairly simple pattern. It was likewise in a color that matches my incumbent kitchen and dining room decor. I single needed to cover the sides of the box with the paper so didn't need very much, this cast used 2 letter-sized pieces.

Lay each side of the box on the paper and trace around it. If you want to match risen the pattern (which I did for every but one edge) then deal the image below to see how I did information technology.

orange and white patterned scrapbook paper being cut for a project

Adhere the paper to the sides of the boxful with Modernistic Podge. Set aside to dried-out. Once completely dry, use the sandpaper to go over the edges, exposing them a little. Pass over o'er the box with a dry cloth and then put on a couple of coats of Mod Podge over the top allowing each coat to dry soundly.

images showing how to attach scrapbook paper to wood

Measure your most used teabag pouches. This will dictate how many sections you can make in your package. I was fit to divide my box into three equal sections.

Valuate the breadth of the box and cut two pieces of balsa wood to shuffling dividers inside the box. Glue them in place (see the image on the left above).

how to put wood dividers inside a small box

Once everything is glued, painted and dried, you need to attach the hardware.

antique hardware being attached to a simple wood storage box

Occupy your new tea box with your favorite tea leaf and enjoy.

bigelow tea packets inside a tea storage box
a tea box on a dining table with an antique teapot for afternoon tea

About Bigelow Tea

Bigelow Tea is a 3-generation, kinfolk-owned American troupe, with quality afternoon tea in a foil pouch for cheekiness, and is available at Walmart where they have bonus packs that contain 4 extra teatime bags.

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