I've been wanting to get a pochade box, also known as a thumb box for awhile now but they are … well beyond my price range. We have a variety of great thrift stores in the area and I needed a couple of new shirts for work. I stopped by found a couple of shirts, decided to wander the book aisle to look for art books.

They had no good art books so I wandered the housewares aisle just looking, and in the decorating section, which is generally a pile of useless shit I found a wooden mini wine bottle box with nice hinges and clasps. I also found a medium sized cigar box. I grabbed both. I spent $8 total. Both are made of wood, but I may collage over the top of the cigar box, though a cigar box pochade is a classic.

I've looked at a variety of videos and plans for making my own and I have a rough plan for what I'd like to do with my 2 little boxes.

I watched this video about the pochade box:

I also looked at a bunch of blogs but this one stood out as the best.