Welcome To...: Show-N-Tell

Don't forget to join me for Sunday Swatches tomorrow!

Here are some of my finished projects from this week. I will be posting more on my Sunday Swatches post tomorrow:

I've been getting tired of all of the stained wood photo frames in my house, so I'll be gradually painting them, black or white depending on the room they'll be in. I decided to start with two from my bedroom:

These are cross-stitched pictures my mother-in-law made for us when our first son was born. We've had them hanging by our bed ever since. The finished frames on my bedroom wall:

They look really nice against the yellow paint, and notice my newly painted bedside table below this one:

Remember the cloth napkins I found at Home Goods? They became an ultra-cute pillow for Addy's bed:

One cloth was used to cut out the appliques and I love the fringe detail:

My mother-in-law gave us these stools a couple of years ago. I didn't really know what to do with them, but now that I've discovered matte black spray paint, it was an easy choice!

Total transformation:

They are now gracing my kitchen island and perfectly compliment the black appliances:

I must get everything from my mother-in-law, because she gave me these plants, too! I think she said they are Rose of Sharon. They came in these ugly plastic pots:

I used spray paint that is made specifically for plastics to makeover these pots I already had in the shed. I didn't take a before picture, but you can see from the inside that the original color was orange.