One of my house goals is to clean up my office.  While I haven’t quite finished that project yet, I can show you some of that room, which is upstairs in a loft that overlooks our family room.  I call it the eagle’s nest, because I can sit up there and hear just about everything that’s going on in the house.  Perfect for spying on the kids.

Here’s a sneak peek of the cleaner parts of my office/art studio space.

My desk and the shelves above it…

Let’s start at the top…the top shelf, that is.

The middle shelf…

And the bottom shelf…

Globes and one of my favorite lamps on the desk.

Here’s a close up of the piece of wood…it’s a piece of wood that my son broke in tae kwon do.  I wrote some of the things that are important to me on it, and it sits on my desk as a daily reminder to keep it real in my life.

Moving on in the room…my pink piano. Oh yes I do have a pink kiddie piano!

A gorgeous black velvet covered chair where my American Girl Bitty Baby doll sits.  My cat sits there a lot too.  Had to do a lot of lint rollering before this pic.

Some day I hope to have a dining room full of these fabulous chairs.

There is a couch that is not pictured here due to the aforementioned mess problem.  I use this trunk as a coffee table for the trunk and for extra storage.

And because it would be quickly lost if I didn’t, I keep the key to the trunk on a hot pink velvet ribbon. Functional, plus it adds a great pop of color.

And let’s not forget my pink table.

This table, which we got from Ikea a million years ago, used to be ugly mustard yellow.  And it lived that way until finally I spray painted it pink.  Quite the improvement.

At the edge of the room is the pink phone and the writing on the wall…

That’s all for now.  Still missing from the pics are the couch, front desk (the one shown is the back desk, sort of like a credenza), and the art table.  Maybe I’ll clean up and add those pics.  Or who knows, I could let it cure for another couple of months or years, like I do with many of my projects!

Showing off my office/art studio at Whisperwood Cottage…