I've promised that

a post is coming about my vintage train [make-up / over night] case hoarding problem...

And I'm committed to selling some at some point... 

But for now, I've got to get them cleaned up a bit...

 And I've kinda gotten side-tracked by the idea of covering them a bit...

 This is an old Sears model... 

It's a MESS on the outside and I really did not like the off white color at all.

I remembered that my sweet friend, Pam S. had shown some she had covered that turned out beautiful... so I thought I'd give it a go -- 

I decided to use napkins that had a fairly busy pattern

[to better hide any mistakes I made - lol]

After separating the napkin [most are three-ply and I removed the two white layers] I set to work with just a pair of scissors and mod podge. 

I had it completely covered in one afternoon.

I'd left the little trim areas and handle plain, but then decided that I had the perfect washi tape to take care of that -- And it really DID give it the finishing touch that it needed. 

After a quick spray of high gloss sealer and a few hours of drying it is ready to go.

I'm LOVING how this turned out -  

In fact, I've already started on another small case

[not a train case]

that I think is going to be adorable when it's done.

I'll share the finished project!