Little Projects

I have taken some photos of an assortment of little projects I've been working on.
I had this gorgeous crewel stitchery packed away and I had forgotten all about it.
I love it and I was happy to rediscover it!
I just happened to have the correct size of embroidery hoop on hand to frame it with.
I like how it turned out:

And that gave me the idea to frame this smaller one, too:

This piece of vintage sheet music, below, is one of my all-time favorites. I love the artwork on the cover, the colors - and the flowers on her dress remind me of my vintage Ransburg canisters.
I seldom frame the original, so I had a color copy made - and then, luckily, it fit perfectly into this blue frame I found at a thrift store.
I was going to sell it, but I like the way it looks so much, I'm not sure I want to part with it:

This cute little Mary Engelbreit teapot lamp was found at a thrift store. The light bulb socket had some issues and I thought I might have to replace it altogether.
 But I managed to fix it up (at no cost), instead.

The next challenge was finding a lampshade the right size.
Harder than you might think, especially since only a used or vintage one from a thrift store would suit me.
 Plus, it had to be pretty small - not easy.
 I finally found one, but the color wasn't right so I needed to cover it, somehow.
 Oh - and it was actually too short, as well:

I was going to cover it with polka-dot ribbon and black ball fringe:

I had already cut the ribbon into lengths:

But I decided that might be a bit much, and then I found another shade I liked better, and changed my mind!

 It absolutely needed the trim to add a bit of length to the shade.
So this is how it wound up looking, in the end:

( I already had the matching clock when I found the lamp base.)

Honestly, I know it still isn't long enough! It needs to hide more of the socket. But this was the best I could do.
I admit - not all of my projects turn out as well as I'd like!
Next, we have this vintage Samsonite Beauty Case that belonged to my mother-in-law:

The bottom of it was a little bit stained, and it didn't look so nice.
So I cut a piece of  pretty vintage floral fabric to fit and glued it down into the bottom:

Now it looks nice again!
I even have the box it originally came in, which tells me on the side that the color name was "Pink Orchid"
I like that:

I bought this large frame at a thrift store on half-price day.
The print inside was kind of cute, but it's not my style.
(Except for the cat - I love that cat.)

The frame was just the right size for this original painting which was also a thrift find.
 (I've shown you this before; I'm just sharing it again to show you what the "project" was).
 I only needed to give it a coat of white paint, which, to me, looked better surrounding this painting than the natural wood:

Last of all, I finally found one of these folding boards for cutting out fabric at a thrift store (cheap), but the blue paper tape along the edges was falling off:

So I just got some cute floral washi tape and put it on instead:

Easy peasy, and it works for me - all I wanted to do was cover up the ugly edges.
Just some little projects that have been keeping me busy.