Last week I added a few new things to my office.
I wanted something a little brighter in my pen holder. Some personalized pencils from Oriental Trading did the trick.
I picked up an orchid from the grocery store and it is my new best friend. So far it’s still alive. Cross your fingers that it stays that way.
You know I can never get enough inspiring quotes. Especially in my office.
I got this one recently from the etsy shop, The Living Room Floor. It’s by the same girl that made these popular tags. I love her new quotes.
You can never have too many inspiring words of wisdom in your home in my opinion.
I cleaned up and added a few things to my inspiration board.
And then lastly I framed this painting I did back in college. It was from my color theory class. Basically I had to create the gradation of red. The touch of pink looks great on my shelf.
I love little updates to rooms. It creates a fresh feel without having to do anything major.
I love it all! What a fun sunny office to get some work done it:)
Very happy office!
Mary Ann
Love the color theory painting… totally my fave addition! <3
I love it all! Great reminder to check Oriental Trading Company. I did a similar painting for the color turquoise for my class and it's GENIUS to frame it. Love your style. 🙂
abby
I love the changes Kirsten! I am a huge fan of inspirational quotes, and those are all great ones!!
Love the color theory painting… totally my fave addition! <3
The pencils are pretty fabulous- I think I need some of those now! (I love an old school pencil!) Also really love prints with inspiring quotes set in gorgeous typography 🙂 The painting is perfect and super sweet in color and scale sitting in your bookcase! Great additions!
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I feel like I parent with inspiring quotes. I "borrow" my daughter's laptop while she is at school. I browse the blogs and always save a cool quote each day to her desktop photo. She loves it , like a daily greeting card: Thanks for today's quotes.)
Love the pencils, what a fun color. Your office has turned out so great!
And those touches just MAKE it!!! It's like you put bursts of color in your office just in time for spring!!
I LOVE those book holders!! I need to find me some of those!! I've just got magazines stacked everywhere and no place to neatly organize them!
Have a beautiful Tuesday!
The pencils are awesome. I love your workspace.
Love how small changes can totally transform how a room feels! And the pink pencils are perfect.
I JUST ordered those same pencils from Oriental Trading company too! I saw it on the today show I think and had to have them. Looks great in your office!
I just found you blog and looks amazing. I love the quote on your inspritation board. It is so fitting for me at his time. Your office looks great. Off to order some of those pensils. They make me feel very inspirational.
I love the new additions! Those pencils are seriously so cute!
Love the pencil idea! I used the same fabic for my daughter's duvet cover as you used for your panels, only in the green. What a fun whimsical print and it looks great in your office! xo Caroline
Oh colour theory…we're working on similar colour scales in one of my classes right now 🙂
Your little touches around the room look lovely!
Love the new additions! I'm excited to see them in person!
Wow! Very inspiring! I love the magazine holders in your bookcase!!! Do you remember where you purchased them?
I adore orchids, but I'm always afraid to get one because they're so temperamental. I can't even keep my desk plant alive at work. I love the quotes too. I put inspiring words all over the walls in my room.
Oriental Trading is awesome! I love them too! 😉 That is awesome about the orchid – I know I was looking in Pottery Barn's new catalog and they have a lovely little orchid in 2 different sizes, the smallest started at like, $40. I went to my local grocery store, and they had the bigger size just like the PB one, and it was only $19.99! For the same size as the $60 one from PB!
love your office, and that painting you did in color theory class is perfect, love the shades of red to pink!
Fabulous additions to your office! The details really do make the difference.
I'm loving the pretty color theory painting, which is going straight to my DIY files.
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I love love love everything!
I love anything that's personalized! Those pencils are so fun!
Oh I love it, all the pretty bright colors!
Great quote… love those personalized red pencils too!
xo,
cristin
I love the accents, especially the pencils. I recently bought a Orchid too. They bring such life to a room.
Kirsten,
I love love love your blog. It actually inspired me to get my butt in gear and keep up with mine over at justinesaysloveyourspace.blogspot.com. And I adore your framed gradation from college, I think I have one of those laying around my house too! Great idea. Thanks for the daily inspiration. 🙂
-Justine
Love your blog – have been a reader for only a short time. Very inspiring! A quick note on your orchid – I'm no expert, but I read somewhere recently that they take in water through their leaves. I started watering mine with a spray bottle and it is going CRAZY! It must really work as I have new blooms and a new shoot growing. Just thought you'd want to know… keep up the amazing work.
Loving the new touches to the office. The red pencils add a huge pop! Funny that something so small yet useful, can make such an impact!
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Ok… I just have to order some of those fun pencils. Adorable!
what a fantastic idea of framing the gradation assignment! i love it. i did red for mine too…i love the pinks. 🙂
Having inspirational quotes all around you is great! The typographic execution is beautiful.