Coffee Day: My new office!

Firstly, before I get to the highlight of my blog today, this picture is for Nikki. And others I suppose.

Nikki got me a fabulous necklace that had orange and yellow beads and I realized, I have neither of those colors. So that led us to an insane endeavor to discover orange for me to wear. I love orange, but the clothing options for orange are not as bountiful as other other colors.

So I found this orange cardigan majigger at Charming Charlie and while I felt weird in it at first, I'm finding I like it a lot, but I still had nothing to wear with it. I was putting away laundry and hanging dresses and saw this shirt and shouted "ORANGE!" The dress shirt has orange, coral white and fuchsia spots! It didn't have a neckline appropriate for the necklace, but I was able to wear my cardigan-type... thing... I dunno what to call it.



This isn't the best pic, but I was so tired and didn't care...

Now onto the highlight of the post. My desk came in! I'm so pleased! Chris did most of the work to set it up and we put dinner on hold till about 8 to get it all in order. (Thank you cupcake!)




I then went to Target and got some "Organizing tools" to make it really functional.


The cubes are (as you probably guessed) the ones you hang on the wall, but I wanted more space on the desk so they are being utilized as seen above. Got little prep bowls for paperclips, tacks, etc.

I'm so thrilled!
I'll have to hit the sack soon I suppose as I may go hit up some flea markets in Ohio with my parents and some family friends who are in visiting. I am feeling VERY accomplished today :) I should sleep easy after a shower.

Week in Review Part 2

I hate our office. When we are home, we spent 90% of our evening in this room. I hate it.
It is cluttered, bland, and uncomfortable. I want to knock the wall out put in a curtain and make the guest bedroom my office and leave this room to Chris as a man cave. But I guess then it would be even worse...

The number one problem I see when I see the office is my work area. My desk is actually a drafting table, not a computer desk. Then I have a folding TV tray for our printer which has junk piled on it. THEN I have a small two drawer cabinet with more of my junk on it.

This whole issue could be solved with this:

This sexy little number is a Walker Edison and is super cheap on Amazon. $89.00, free shipping. I need it. That would turn 3 pieces of mismatched furniture into one awesome piece.

Problem 2 is no decor. I have a bulletin board and our worthless degrees hanging on the walls and a sea green bookshelf filled with computer games and manga topped with a set of fake katana and stuffed mythological creatures.

This problem can be solved by, uhm... getting the desk above and then decorating around it. This desk... it can solve my problems. It could probably cure a terminal illness.

**Power went out so Chris and I talked: We are Ordering it. YAY!!!!!**

Anyone actually read all this gibberish? If so, post in the comments the answer to the Reader Response:

What theme should I use to decorate my office if I get this magical desk?

***Change of subject!!! ***

I spent a lot of time looking at Etsy this week to find nothing really.

I have had my eye on this shop for a bit though.

Sea Pinks


Is this bird not the most adorable, simple little sweetheart ever? I have been staring at him and his little buddies for the whole week. I want him, and all his little green and turquoise friends to hang all over my kitchen.

There is a plethora of adorable pincushions in her store as well and I just about died when I saw one that looked like a Kiwi and a grapefruit (don't go looking for the grapefruit... it's been sold already).

I don't sew and don't want to learn (because I'm lazy), but I want all these awesome things. (And Aprons!)


When I look at pages that recommend things to me based on what I have previously looked at I re-assess myself. They all make sense systematically, but that doesn't keep me from tilting my head and saying, why would I want that?!

Amazon recommends: Ukelele books, werewolf action figures, and desk chairs (for my cure all desk I suppose).

Etsy recommends: Vintage lingerie, crucifixes, and cupcake liners.

Cutting this short as this storm is going to take out my computer... again!