Free Crate, I turned into a tea crate

I was at an antique store and they had a pile of "FREE" things.  I got this crate.  I was super excited because I have always wanted to have a tea crate and this was going to be a perfect crate to turn into a tea crate.

                    Before                                                        After

This was my inspiration crate.

I got some stencils and created this...

Wulong is an older word for oolong.  Oolong is my favorite kind of tea.

I free handed the Chinese letter for Tea on the crate.

I loved the fact it still had some shipping labels still glued and attached the crate.

Cha is the Chinese word for Tea.  1726 is just a number I liked, there is no significance there.

I then stained the crate.  I think it added a lot of character to the old crate.

I think it turned out pretty good.  

Some day my crate will sit in my tea shop like this one does...

This crate is at Ohio Tea Company in Canton, OH.