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Vintage wooden crates are fun to make

Sharon takes you through the process step-by-step of creating your own old wooden boxes to fill up shelves in a cellar or a store BY SHARON OJALA

i have been building a new twelfth scale post office which will have a little store in it as well. Within the store I built a wall unit with five shelves that are all made from wooden garden markers that I got at the pound store. The bottom two shelves will hold wooden boxes filled with berries, mushrooms and other foods.

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