vintage sheet music tray

I've had this tray that I got from the thrift store for about $2.00, like a year ago, waiting for me to finish it.

I had mod podged some paper to it a while back, but decided to take it a different route.

 

I just spray painted right over the other paper and printed out some vintage sheet music.

The "French Opera" music (and probably some of the others) came from The Graphics Fairy, of course.

added a sweet little nest stamp...

it's not perfect and I love it that way

a little light distressing on the edges and corners....

I {love} it!

peonie love

My first few blooms of the season....

needed a special place to go. So here's a little project I did today and I wish I'd taken a before. I got this adorable bucket at the thrift store a long time ago for like $2 on half-price day. It was a gross, ugly black but I knew I could give it some love and find somewhere to put it. I primed it well with metal primer and tried out the cheaper spray paint they sell at Wal-mart. It's a minty-greeney-blue color and for this project it worked great! After the paint dried I antiqued it and sanded it in a few small spots.

I tore a little strip of muslin to fray the edges and stamped it with a writing/script stamp all along in it then a little birdie stamp at the end and tied it on for a cute touch.

to put the peonies in I stuck in a ziploc bag which sprung a leak, I'm assuming from the rocks I put in the bucket to keep it from blowing around so much in this Oklahoma wind. Plan B was an old plastic gas station cup that I squished in but it showed through the cut-outs so then I put a small square of burlap along the inside to keep it from showing. Sounds kind of like "If you give a mouse a cookie...."!

The plus side of the wind combined with the oh-so-lovely smell of my peonies, means that every time I walk through my front door, I get a little whiff of heaven.

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A little project....

I had modge-podged these paper mache' letters a couple years ago in leopard and red toile tissue paper but got tired of looking at them and stuck them away. I had a little inspiration when I bought this awesome paper, so I spray painted (which I am all about) right over the shellack and modge-podged the fronts. They'll look too cute taking up space standing on a bookshelf.