Before and After: What a Differance a Desk Makes

I blame global warming for the plague of ruts I've seen everyone in this winter/spring/summer-in-spring season. Maybe we didn't get proper hibernation time this year, but I have certainly come down with a case of the blahs. I plan to take mine on head first this weekend with a change of scenery- sitting next to the ocean, drinking mimosas.


A few weeks ago I helped a friend who was having apartment-blahs. We weren't going for drastic change, just enough to feel different. And our goal was under $40 and start-to-finish done in one evening.

Here's the Everyday-Girl-Awesomeness Transformation

How we did it:

• The #1 difference was made by hanging simple sheer curtains (all materials from Target). 
• Cleared off all the things that naturally pile up on desks.
• Important papers went into a vertical file box (also from Target) 
• Current books in rotation stayed on the desk, all other books got stacked on the floor underneath a table next to the desk in neat piles. It's a studio-we had to get creative 
• Added: My favorite Calendar from Etsy and a framed personal memento, a glass jar to hold odds and ends and a bunch of sunflowers as a treat.

Thursday Tabletop: Flowers + Tins

Step 1: Collect cute tins (or spray paint un-cute cans)

Step 2: Buy flowers. Bonus points for not arranging them

Step 3: Drop flower bunches into tins. Add water.

Result: The most stylish centerpieces on the block. 

Take that Easter Bunny. 

Source: tres-studio.blogspot.com via ABC on Pinterest

Source: hayleyhurst.com via Erica on Pinterest

 

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Have your cake (plates)...

I was so excited to see Bountiful (their website does them NO justice), a little shop in Venice that I visited last spring, featured in the shopping round up on Glitter Guide today. I long heard the myth of the stacked up cake plates from my west coast friends, and it was tip-top of my shopping itinerary when I got there. It did not disappoint.

My snaphot of the cakeplate from a visit last spring :: And the amazingness as featured on GG this morning

 

Morning Inspiration

Vintage luggage at Eastern Market