Ballerina music box... video

Ballerina music box..

butter dish and light cover

bottom of butter dish with ballerina

music mechanism and base

all the elements together

bottom of music box

I've been making my ballerina music box, from the butter dish and light cover that I found. Things have changed as I've been working on it. I first thought about having the music mechanism show but after taking it apart and realizing that remaking the plastic elements would not work, I decided to cover it. But, it turned out that the butter dish and light cover were meant to work together, because once i cut the bowl section out the dish I realised that it fitted inside the light, with the music mechanism snugly covered.

I made an insert for the bottom of the butter dish which clamps everything in and it worked as I wanted. Now to make a beautiful wooden insert...with a lot of help from Nick...

Ballerina music box

Antique butter dish

Disassembled butter dish with light-cover on top and lid

Without lid

I've been trying to find a box to insert a mechanism of a music box which rotates the ballerina, creating my own version. It has been rather unsuccessful, then on two separate scavenging outings with the help me my dear friend Carla, i found the light cover / bell jar and the old silver butter dish. My mind had one of those moments of clarity and connecting today and i thought that they might work well together... Which they do... now i have to see if they will work as a vessel for my music element and ballerina.