'Wood' you like to start the next project?

       Time to wipe the slate clean and begin again with a new project! Finally done with that horrible flat and lifeless cardboard and on to a much more pleasant material, full of potential... namely, wood. A much more workable material, it's true, but sadly one that involves large and frightening power tools with the capability to potentially dismember me. But no matter.
      First, we start with a concept. In this case, the box must begin from its contents- which should hold some meaning to me personally. The size limitations (no smaller than 4", no bigger than 8") were very helpful in narrowing my initial boundless ideas as I first began contemplating the direction of my box. After much consideration rummaging through precious keepsakes and nicknacks, I finally settled on a rather unexpected object. Let's see if you can guess, I'll give you a hint:

 Although the interior of my car is not nearly that shiny and new. In fact, the poor thing spends most weekends looking more like this:

Therefore, what should still be attached to my stick-shift is now sadly shorn from its home due to excessive wear. But there is a plus side to my having to shift gears holding on to a leather-less gear shift knob, and it is that I now have an object to build my box around! See, there's always a silver lining. 

Here is the lovely thing!:

Ain't she a beauty? And she shall serve as a lovely muse to inspire the formation of my box.