She's crafty

So, it was kind of a slow day for me at the office today and I was feeling the need to redecorate.  As in immediately.  For those of you that don't know me, when I get an urge to do something, it's rare that I have the patience to wait.  Waiting for online purchases to come in the mail is my equivalent of the 7th ring of Hell.  But I digress...  In order to feed my redecorating need, I decided there were a few small projects I could embark upon to make my office a little more homey.  After a quick trip to Michael's for ribbon and craft paper on my lunch hour, I am now proud to show off my new French memo board, Post-it dispenser, and pen holder.

For the Post-it dispenser, I just simply traced the holes from the previous decorative paper and inserted it under the plastic top.

I don't think I really need to explain this, but just in case...wrap existing pen holder (or clean tin can) with craft paper and cut to size.  I used a binder clip and tape to secure it in place.

Ok, this was a little more labor intensive that the other two projects.  I started with six pieces of craft paper, arranging them in a checkerboard pattern.  I used thumbtacks to hold the paper in place on my credenza's built in bulletin board.  Then I started with the blue ribbon, measuring every six inches and stretching it as tightly as possible in a straight diagonal line.  It helps to know the the first piece of ribbon started at the top left corner and I made sure it directly intersected the four corners of the first four pieces of paper.  I used that as my guide and just added a new ribbon every six inches, making sure to keep the spacing between ribbons even (you can see that I wasn't exactly spot on in some places).  Then with the yellow ribbon, I did the same process, but in the opposite direction.  

The finished product turned out looking pretty cute, if I don't say so myself!  The only problem I had was the ribbon not being taught enough.  To fix this, I just put thumbtacks at each intersection of ribbon that was holding up a picture.  I added some more pictures of some of my favorite people to my existing photos that were already tacked up, and ta-da!  It really is nice to look over at the faces of people that I am so happy to have in my life when I'm having a particularly stressful day at work.  There are a few faces missing, but I'll take care of that soon.  As you can see, there is space left for them!  Bonus points go out to anyone that can identify more than five people from my picture of pictures!  Happy Hump Day!