With the crazy price of gas and groceries, we are all hurting for change. Or better yet, stacks of cold cash!

Sometimes, you just have to put your message out there. Straight to the point. This is a money box I made a bit ago that serves several purposes. It can be used to hold that pesky loose change from the bottom of your purse, or it can be where you store your notes for your genius money-making ideas. Or coupons, tokens, rare diamonds - you name it.

I've used this box for all of those reasons at one point or another. These days I use this box to drop in notes of what I would do with a million dollars. That way when (if?) that happens, and I worry about what to do with it, I can open the box and say, "Oh yah! Of course! I want to build a new school in an African village!"

Obviously this falls under the "visual manifestation" genre of craft projects. Try it and see if it brings more money into your life to pay bills or save for that much-needed vacay.

I started with a plain wood box and painted it. I glued the pennies to the top with Liquid Fusion, and used mosaic grout in between. I then used play money for the outside of the box, and glued on some gold balls for the feet. It needed some sparkle, so I added Tulip crystals.

And hey - if you get REALLY strapped, you can always pry the pennies off the top ;-)

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