Faux-semblant Ceramic Secret Box

I think my first and proudest DIY was cutting several hundred pages out of a book from my father's library so I could fashion my own secret compartment to stash away a few lucky keepsakes, jr. high love letters, and whatever else I deemed important at the age of 12. I believe I got a bit of a whooping later when my dad realized I had altered his riveting copy of The New Isolationism: A Study in Politics and Foreign Policy Since 1950, but it was worth it. Secret hiding spots were and remain cool, like this fake stack of dishes that reveal a small storage section inside...

We agree with one of the comments mentioned; the design would be improved if the first plate ontop was fake (or "real"), so any suspicious snooper would lift to just find another plate instead of the compartment residing one plate in. But who would be suspicious of a stack of plates in the first place?

Comments (7)

I heart secret compartments.

posted by K T G on May 6th 2008 at 2:46pm
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me too.. like the can of beans that unscrew at the bottom.. ingenious.

posted by animalhouze on May 6th 2008 at 2:49pm
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love love love!

i went to a spy shop in nyc and found myself most attracted to their crazy collection of secret-compartment objects.

i think this is a great (looking) idea!

posted by kdkaboom on May 6th 2008 at 3:28pm
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I barely have enough room for my actual plates. But this is just plain genius!

posted by nazrd on May 6th 2008 at 5:08pm
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Haha. I made myself a stash-book as well when I was around 15, but I made sure it would be one nobody would ever bother to actually pick up. It was a Book-of-the-Month copy that never got mailed back, and it was Howard Cosell's autobiography. This was in the mid-late seventies.

posted by btoddster on May 6th 2008 at 6:24pm
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I love this idea even more than the "secret book"! Awesome!

posted by AimeeRoo on May 7th 2008 at 7:41am
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if only I had any available cabinet space!

posted by colgankc on May 7th 2008 at 12:11pm
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