[Nfb-krafters-korner] Seeking creative ideas for Braille magazine boxes

[Deborah Armstrong]

If you get Braille magazines, they come in cardboard boxes from NLS 
contractors. In huge print letters, they read "Magazine keep dry". You 
know the boxes I mean!


I used to have a crafty sighted housemate who loved them. She'd turn 
them in to all sorts of crazy storage solutions with a box cutter and 
contact paper. She was always trying to convince me to subscribe to more 
Braille magazines, but that was when we both were single and young!


The youth and the housemate is long gone -- she became an architect and 
could afford home improvement stores -- while I became a computer nerd 
who tries to steer clear of box cutters!


Anyway, I hate throwing these boxes out. Do you have any creative ideas 
for crafting them in to something both usable and attractive?


The only thing I ever made with them was a solar cooker. I read about 
this on

     http://www.solarcooking.org


Using an industrial stapler which I snuck out of the office over the 
weekend, I stapled several of the boxes together in a flat shape 
resembling a large pizza pan. I covered it with foil, and used a black 
pot I purchased from a thrift store with a tight lid. I then secured it 
with a twist tie inside of a clear oven baking bag, putting the food 
inside the pot. This was more of a geek project than a craft project. I 
am a ham and we have this off-the-grid annual event called "Field Day". 
So I demoed solar cooking for field day and used up a lot of Braille 
magazine boxes that way.


If you have questions about solar cooking, start a new thread -- I've 
done quite a bit of it.


But now I want a craft project to use up the boxes.


--Debee