Rustic Pallet Tray/Box

Every November for the past 9 years I have held a craft sale in my home.  I am always trying to figure out how I can make it look better every year.  I actually try to make my home look like a store. Many times people thought it was a store and came back a week later only to find that all of my furniture and home decor had taken the place of all the crafts.
For this year's sale, I want to make some shelving and boxes out of the pallets I have collected.  I love using crates and wood boxes as back drops to the crafts.  Here is one little idea I came up with.

This wording was on the side of one of the pallets.  I knew I wanted to use it in a project.

I cut the boards to the right size and added two wider pallet boards for the bottom.

For the sides I added two medium size pallet boards.
I really wanted it to have handles.

 So....
in my stash of wood I found my last piece of wood lathe.
Hubby threw away all the lathe from our attic demo.  I am so sad about that. The wood lathe really adds to the pallet wood for finishing touches.  So now I am on the hunt for some wood lathe :)

Okay, back to my little project.

I cut the lathe so that it fit across the wood box like a handle.  I must tell you that this was my sons idea first.
Brilliant!

So now I have another neat wood box to use as a back drop to my crafts.

I did take some of Minwax's dark walnut stain and brushed it over the fresh cut wood to antique it.

So.....
does anybody have some wood lathe they don't want?:)

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