I have been living with almost nothing on top of my shelf in my office for months and months. I just couldn’t figure what to do that wasn’t going to be really expensive. So when I saw these cardboard letters at Joannes last week I bought two of them thinking I would paint them to resemble these Anthropologie letters via these instructions.
But then I decided I just really needed some color up there. So the pink “k” was born! I just painted it with a roller brush and some craft paint. I went with gold glitter for my other “k”. I am obsessed with it. To do the gold “K” I just brushed it with glue and basically poured gold glitter all over it!
I also picked up this cool little thing at Z Gallerie last week in their clearance section for $4.
and just for fun…
… a little succulent for my desk for $2.99 at my local grocery store.
I love it! I am colleting R's for our house, I am in love with letter walls or just groupings of letters… and I am OBSESSED with succulents! 🙂 Good choice!!!
I love this idea. What a fun way to really personalize the space. I am too a fan of pink of love the shade you chose!
The pink K adds just the right amount of height and punch of color to your already fabulous office!
Such a great simple idea for personalizing your office. I love the pink!
K is my favorite letter, too! 🙂 I love your blog. L.O.V.E. xoxo Kiki
This is such a cute idea. I've seen letters in design before, but this seems so much more accessible than most designs.
That's perfect! Great inspiration on a budget. You must love spending time in your office!
abby
Your office is so happy and bright!
you did a great job. this seems like something my non-handy self could do. thanks for sharing.
Love that pink! I just got done customizing my roman shades in my living room with crosgrain ribbon that color. It's so fun + adds such a pop! 🙂
Great finds! Everyone needs a little ( or a lot) of glitter in their lives,
It all looks great! I really love the letters! Can't get enough of them. =)
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Love these cute little touches. Love that pop with the gold K!
Such a great space Kirsten. Love the "K"s. Especially the pop of pink.
Awesome idea! I feel like I need to incorporate some giant letters into my life 🙂
Love the pop of pink, perfect!! Janell
Very cute idea! Love groupings of letters. I need to start collecting.
I love your office. I am looking to redo ours and I am loving the Expedite bookcase. Both of our daughter's have the smaller version. Such a great piece. I love you K's!!
Those K's are so cute!! And I love succulents they are so cute!! Im totally going to go get one!
I love this room! It's been fun to see how you've accessorized it. I have a "den" in my home that is empty at the moment. My husband wants it to be our future children's play room but I say no way! It's going to be MY room 🙂
Your office is so pretty with such lovely finds but with it being February and Indy just getting out from under the ice storm, you'll understand why I love your little succulent for your desk! Oh how I miss seeing green!!
Kristen- You did a fab job on the K's!! Perfect idea for an extra pop of color! The Asian inspired Tower–Zgallerie…$4!!! GREAT FIND!!
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fun! I'm a K too! Love that succulent. I need to get one!
That gold glitter K is SO good! You are making me want to glitter something real bad.
Danika
I love big letters! Great idea with the glitter. I never would have thought of that. Thanks for sharing.
great minds think alike! i picked up the cardboard "M" last week too! only i was trying to figure out how to paint it so it didn't look cheap and weird on my bookshelf! thanks for the tutorial! 🙂 xoxo
LOOOOVE the hot pink K and the glitter K!!! maybe better than my "zinc" look 😉 i may be copying you now…..
I love your letters! I went a little "K" crazy at Hobby Lobby and actually purchased the paper mache one and went metallic paint crazy on it! I think it looked just like the Anthro ones I had already purchased and got a little upset I didn't think of the DIY version first! But I love how big your pink one is!
And who doesn't love a little succulent for the home office! Beautiful updates to your fabulous office
Kirsten, I really love the curtains…and the GOLD "K" is sooo cute!! It adds a little bit of glam to the space!
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Love this!! The glitter K is fab! I was given one to wave at a kylie concert once – i loved it!! Slightly random but i thought i would share xo
I'm totally in love with the *scale* of your letters!!! Not to mention pink and sparkly??? Yeah, you had me at pink…(c:
I love those cardboard letters! My son has a huge one in his room, but we haven't done anything with it yet. I spelled out NOEL for my mantel this Christmas and glittered them (isn't it the biggest mess?!?!)
Yours look perfect!
I love your K's.. The pink is perfection. Pink always is right? I've never seen the big letter's at Joann's before I'll have to go check out my local store. All of your finishing touches are great.
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I love pink, so I think you made a fantastic choice in color.
Nice choice on the plant. Those are easy to care for.
Impressive! I would be way to chicken to cover something with glitter in my house…Christmas leaves me with flecks to last the year round. 🙂
Cute office!! Still love the drapes…my pillow that I won in the same fabric is still one of my favorite things in my home.
Love this!!
You can NEVER go wrong with initials…That just "topped" it off! I know, lame pun:) But I do luv the letters.
~Katie
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I never tire of a monogram–especially a pink and glittered one!
: )
The glitter K is just to die for. Way to get great style on the cheap! Color me inspired : )
Oh that is the perfect touch! I love initials and I really love what you've done! I've actually hard a hard time decorating the top of the Expedit in my office, too! Inspiration from you, as always…. : )
I love cardboard letters and initials! What a great and fun way to add color to the space.
I have to love this since we share the same KK initials 🙂 Really makes a statment in the space. Thanks for sharing! Kristy K.
I'm so glad you posted this – I have recently been searching all of the Joanns in Salt Lake for these cardboard letters. I found them online, but cannot find them in any of the local stores! Would you mind sharing which location you were able to find them at?
Thank you! B