BRIDGTON — Gallery 302 will welcome back Kappy Sprenger on Nov. 12 and Dec. 2 to show her one-of-a-kind boxes.

There will be a reception for Sprenger and the Small Works Show from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18. The public is invited.

Sprenger started working with wood as a child in Colorado, scavenging lumber from throw-out piles in her neighborhood in order to build birdhouses.

As an adult living in California, she helped manufacture light-weight redwood boomerangs. Saving the scrap lumber, she began to make boxes: round boxes, square boxes, oval boxes with drawers, boxes with false bottoms and hidden compartments and tiny boxes for tiny treasures; boxes that were not only beautiful but useful. The wood has been cut, sanded, polished and oiled. The colors, shapes, swirls and stripes are contrasting and yet balanced.

In 2002 she moved to Maine as a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in birds. She built aviaries, pens and cages, and more scrap lumber of pine, fir and white cedar appeared. She began making boxes for friends and family and eventually for sale and display in Gallery 302.