How to Make a DIY Wooden Tea Box for my Bigelow Tea Station

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TeaProudly  #CollectiveBias  —  A few weeks ago I shared my new vintage style coffee station but I know a few of you prefer tea.  So today I’m showing how I added a DIY wooden tea box to my kitchen coffee station and filled it with some delicious Bigelow Benefits Tea as a reminder for me to drink tea all through the day.

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Bigelow Benefits Tea was easy to order on Amazon.com.  I have drunk their tea for years but I decided to try two new flavors in their Benefits line:  Stay Well (a combination of lemon and echinacea) and Sleep Tea (chamomile and lavender).  They were also Prime items so they arrived in just a couple of days.  Bigelow Benefits Tea is a new line of tea designed to support everyday wellness.  They make a great replacement for coffee and sodas —  less caffeine and more benefits!

They have several other delicious sounding flavors, too:

• Ginger and Peach
• Lemon and Echinacea
• Chamomile and Lavender
• Turmeric Chili Matcha Green  (This is the only flavor in this line with caffeine.)
• Blueberry and Aloe
• Cinnamon and Blackberry
• Chocolate and Almond

How to Make a Wooden Tea Box

I wanted to create something special to put these new tea bags in so I went to the store and bought a plain wooden box.  It was a little smaller than a recipe box but just the right size for tea bags.  But it was PLAIN!

So I pulled out my paper clay and molds.

This is super easy to do but I recently did a Facebook Live video if you’d like to see the step-by-step process.

The paper clay castings don’t even have to dry before gluing them to the wood!

After the glue had set I painted the box light gray, then painted a layer of crackle medium over it.  When that dried I added the last layer of white paint.

It is so fun to watch the paint crackle as it dries!  I didn’t even add a varnish over this.  But now looking at the photo below I might go back and darken the latch to make it look old, too.

Here’s the tea box in my old crate.

And here’s the complete coffee/tea station in my small kitchen.

 

The tea is now out in my wooden tea box where I can see it and with this electric tea pot I can have hot tea in just a couple of minutes!  

If you’re trying to have a clean eating lifestyle, check out Bigelow Benefits Tea!

‘Til the next project,

 Ann @ Duct Tape and Denim

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