A License plate remake

I have recently fallen in love with license plates.  We have a stash of 8 or so.  As I look through them, I kinda remember which car they belonged to.  We've had some nice wheels!   

I have also grown really fond of drawers...the wooden or metal kind.  I've been using the drawers from dressers that are beyond repair or from those obsolete tv cabinets.  The drawers are still useful even though the pieces of furniture they were attached to are not. 

So here's my most recent project, putting two of my faves together.

 

The drawer was brown to start with as many drawers are, so I primed it and then I painted it red and then I distressed it a little bit with a hand sander. 

 

 The license plate belonged on Sarah's car, Marvin.  Do you name your vehicles?  We do.  Marvin was purchased from a relative; he was a black two-door 1998 Chevy something...(Cavalier maybe?)   He was in our family about 5 years.  He spent a winter in Fraser, Colorado with Emily, my oldest daughter.  He was buried under a foot of snow for months as his two-wheel drive just wasn't enough power for the Colorado snowfalls.  So when Emily decided to stay in Fraser for awhile she purchased a new car (a sporty 5-door, 4-wheel drive Subaru named Sally).  And Marvin came home to Wisconsin. 

 

 

He was in an accident this spring - one of those slushy/icy/slippery/snowy/rainy/sleety kind of storms. Sarah was driving back to Edgewood College from Mt. Horeb and hit a patch of black ice and rickashayed off the cement divider, carened off the road and landed in the creek some 20 yards from the road. Marvin was totalled. But he did his job - he protected his precious cargo - Sarah was unharmed. We took a few minutes the next day to give him our regards as we cleaned him out and handed over the keys.

 

 

Today, Marvin lives on through his license plate. 

 

 

(Think how cute this would be with a personalized plate!!)

 

So, what is he good for now?  A years worth of your favorite magazine will fill him up.  Or put him in the bathroom with a couple of regular-sized rolls of toilet paper, or some rolled up towels - that would be cute.  He could be your mailbox, if it's on your porch under the protection of a roof.   

Lots of different uses.  He's gonna end up in my craft room toting some IKEA catalogs.  

 

A cute little remake for sure.  Thanks, Marvin.