Yesterday, I shared my new office with you. And as you can see in the image below, I am still in need of some curtains. I’ve decided to make my own and thinking that cafe curtains will work best in the room. It’s a small room and my desk is right in front of the window, so I don’t want big heavy curtains.  Just something light and visually interesting…of course, that means I want a patten. But what pattern? I’ve been looking at fabric for weeks now and I am going cross-eyed. Worse than that, I’ve become indecisive in the face of the tremendous possibilities out there.

I’ve narrowed in down to 15 possibilities and I need your help in deciding.

Take a look at all the choices and choose what you think would look best or offer up a different suggestion. The color on the walls is Behr’s Reflecting Pool. It’s Gray with a purplish tint.

1. Scene in Lavender by Etsuko Furuya at Phat Fabric
2. Turquoise Hive by Patty Young at J Caroline Creative
3. Andrea Pink from Wonderfluff
4. Grassy Plain by Etsuko Furuya at Phat Fabric
5. Ivory Fiona Floral by Anna Griffin at J Caroline Creative
6. Totem by Summersville
7. Field of Dreams in Sky by Lecien at Hawthorne Threads
8. Lace Fans in Robins Egg by Ink & Spindle
9. Woodland Creatures in Blue by Etsuko Furuya at Hawthorne Threads
10. Spring Flowers by Kobayashi at Purl Shoho
11. Anniko Metro by Daisy Janie
12. Colt Circles in Sand by Skinny Laminx
13. Mum Mustard by Swanky Swell
14. Butterfly Jubilee by Mod Green Pod
15. Bye Bye Blackbird by Kokka at Hawthorne Threads

Which one do you like for my office? You can choose more than one fabric.

poll by twiigs.com

Remember back here I mentioned that we recently moved my office to an upstairs room as part of our home remodeling project? Well, I am finally ready to share some pictures with you of the finished product. It’s a much smaller space than I had before, but I think I made it work (after getting rid of quite a lot of clutter).

The space is not completely done, I do still need to put up my art, but I just can’t decide what to put up. Moving from a much larger space to a smaller space I have way more art pieces than can fit on the walls, so I need to make some difficult choices about what to put up and what to keep in storage. I’m thinking I may need to just rotate, since making this decision is like asking me to choose which one of cats is my favorite…they are all my babies.

I also need to add some curtains. I plan on making my own, but more to come on that later.

So, what do you think?

My desk , bulletin board and the view out the window.  I know the paint looks blue, but it’s not. It’s called reflecting pool (from behr), but it’s gray with a purplish tint.

Here’s the closet with my paper fox garland. I took the doors off the closet, because it’s much more practical to me withour the doors. The black accent wall is actually blackboard pain, which I intend to mark up as soon as I get some chalk markers!

My little crafting table. My sewing machine and other supplies are downstairs in another room.

My 2010 Simple Things of Life Printable Coloring Calendar is here!

It depicts simple line drawings of the simple things of life. There is inspiration for every month of the year to remember the most important things to do in life…love, share, peace, celebrate, play, breathe, create and more.

Print it out, color it & hang it up! Simple as can be and it’s a perfectly wonderful gift for all your family & friends this season, since you can print it out as many times as you want. Color it in yourself and gift it or let them have the fun of coloring it in. At $4.99 it’s a pretty economical gift…if I do say so myself!

I have a thing for office supplies. Cute sticky notes, customized notepads, fun clips and paperclips, all sorts of notebooks….I’ve got it all. I also try to buy handmade as much as I can. I figure you do as well, so I’ve put together some handmade goodies for your office. I’ve included both handmade office supplies that you can buy as well as some you can make yourself.

Shop for Handmade Office Supplies

1. Jotter and Pencil Cup from sweetbeaker
2. iPhone Magnets from Bear Duck Designs
3. Labels from reuseREDESIGN
4. 2010 Eco Desk Calendar from Cat Seto
5. Twin Peacocks Sticky Notes from Michelle Brusegaard
6. Deer Notebook from Modern Printed Matter
7. Cloud Sketchbook from Bang Bang You’re Thread
8. Days of the Week Clips from SusyJack*
9. Printable Binder Filler from HoneyBoo on Etsy
10. Print at Home Folders from WhiskerGraphics
11. Address File Box from UglyKitty on Etsy
12. Custom Business Stamps from Sweet Papery

Make Your Own!

1. Wine cork rubber stamps from Zakka Life
2. Covered thumbtacks from How about orange
3. Homemade notepads from Skip to my Lou
4. Sticky notebooks from Greeting Arts
5. Fabric decorated supplies from How about orange
6. Clothesline desk caddy from The Long Thread
7. Lined zipper pencil pouch from Skip to my Lou
8. Photo pencils from Photojojo
9. Custom mousepad from Craft a Week

Today is the final day of the Indie Fixx Back to School Guide and today’s pixx are from Alexa who is one of the summer Indie Fixx interns. Alexa is heading back to school next week, so please join me in thanking her for helping to make things run  a little more smoothly around here. Thanks, Alexa!

My Day 1 pixx are here, Cool Mom Picks’ pixx on Day 2 here, Amy the intern’s Day 3 pixx here as well as Jan of Daisy Janie’s Day 3 goodies and finally Holly’s list of musts for back to school here.

Scholastic Style +++

1. Studio One Designs - Yellow School Bus skirt, $35
2. Little Houses  - Fontaine Jacket, $245

3. Steppie  - Bowtie Pocket Tee, $25
4. mademoiselle mermaid - Valedictorian Crocheted Legawrmers, $20

Supplies +++

5. Littlebirdieboutique - Tree Branch Pencils, $10
6. Imoss - Allium Day Planner, $20

7. Urban Posture - Handprinted EcoBinder, $12
8. Lifestyle with love - Fall Tree Pencil Case, $10

Dorm Décor +++

9. Dew Garden Crafts - Terrarium
10. Simple Joy Paperie - Paper Wreath, $50

11. HouseOfHarriet - Personalized mug, $22
12. Merigne Designs -Bluebird Pillow case, $25

Time for Lunch +++

13. Julie Meyer - Insulated Lunch Bag, $21
14. Mushy Bug - Apple lunch bin, $19

Holly from Silly Little Lady, and an extra-full-time junior in college, shares some of her Back to School Pixx. Holly is  getting her bachelors in management and her ultimate ambition is to open her own yarn store/tea & coffee bar in Colorado after traveling the world after graduation.  Holly blogs here.

Day 1 of the Back to School Guide is Here, Cool Mom Picks pixx on Day 2 Here & Amy the intern’s Day 3 pixx here.

+++ One Little Bird Planner $20 from joscelynnicole +++

+++ Bouquet of Perfectly Sharpened Pencils $28 from eclecticquirky +++

+++Peacock Messenger Bag $35 from rainbowswirlz +++

+++USB Stick $58 from woodtec +++

+++ Grid Journal Made with 100 percent Recycled Paper $15 from JournalisticTendency +++

+++Pocket Full of Posies Bookmark Set of 2 $3.50 from pixiepaper +++

+++ snack pouch. (small) $12 from downhomeamy +++

+++ I Love Books Zipper Pouch $12 from kukubee +++

+++ Mini CorkBoard OCTOPUS LOVER $15 from uncorked +++

+++ Red Poppies Sticky Notes $3.50 from MichelleBrusegaard +++