I finally found a sewing box!

It's a classic wooden concertina-drawer type, exactly the type I didn't want to pay John Lewis's prices to acquire. But I found this one in a local vintage shop (Trash or Treasure in Maidstone) for just a tenner.
Everything that was in the black and pink spotted cardboard box that previously held my sewing stuff fits in, plus the buttons that were in a plastic box. And my fabric scissors.
For that price I could overlook the coffee cup and fading on one side, because I had plans...

Some weeks earlier I 'came across' (ie, rummaged through the rubbish to find) some old sewing patterns outside a shop in Canterbury (The Sewing Shop). None of them had all its components so I couldn't actually use them to make the garments illustrated. However, I knew they would come in handy so I parked them on a shelf...

And patterns and sewing box came together. I've never tried decoupage before - does it show? I just cut random shapes and stuck them in an overlappingly random fashion all over the top of the box with PVA glue from Cowling & Wilcox, the handy art supplies shop across the road from work. I just need to trim the edges. Oh, and run a scalpel along the edge of the lids - because I've stuck them down!

Stylish sewing box: too much to ask?

I desperately want a new sewing box. Where I currently keep my thread, needles, pins, tape measure and scissors (plus a small slate cat called Gwynedd - no I don't know what she's doing in there either) is a black and pink spotted cardboard box. And it just doesn't work. The unspooling threads are tied together in a multicoloured spaghetti knot, the needles keep escaping from their case to stab my exploring fingers, and the mass somehow expands every time I take the lid off.
Most of the sewing boxes I've seen are, frankly, naff in the extreme. I don't want a padded design that looks like a commode, patterned with Scotty dogs, shaped like a cupcake, emblazoned with 'make do and mend' or faux-vintage floral prints. Anyone have any suggestions?