Monday Is Fun Day - Vintage Nut Container

What catches your eye when you're in a store?  For me, the first thing is color, then style, then function.  Kind of sad that function comes last, but that's the way it is.  And when I'm buying decorative accessories, those priorities seem OK to me.

Anything aqua, pink, or mint green gets my attention right away.  When it has more than one of those colors, even better.  

This is a vintage plastic box that somebody decorated.  I found it at my favorite "Parisian flea market".  It's 9" from one pointy edge to another.

It originally held a "deluxe nut mix", consisting of five kinds of nuts roasted in oil and salt, with an additional five chemicals as preservatives.  One of them is used to make polyester resins and is also used as an aircraft de-icing fluid.  Hmm. 

The gold inner border is original - I can tell based on the scuffing.  The paper and spiffy pink flower are recent additions.

This is how I display it on a bookshelf.