I Love You, Poppin!

I wasn't going to blog this week because I'm finishing up some final projects for school, but I just had to share my love for all things Poppin. For the uninitiated, Poppin is an office supply company that makes the absolute loveliest and most colorful office supplies of anyone. They are Apple to Office Max/Staple's Microsoft. It's just the better version; the better working version; the more aesthetically pleasing version.

I don't even know how I found Poppin to begin with. It may have been via ColourLovers. But I'm glad I did because I won't order supplies for my desk or school from any place else. So anyway, on Black Friday I made an order and it finally arrived today to much felicitous joy! I even instagrammed a couple items:

See that beautiful red notebook with the golden C embossed on it? Well I have a larger version in brown (my very first Poppin purchase) and I am absolutely in love with it. I think the embossing is new because Black Friday was the first time I'd ever seen the option available, and it's only available on some colors. It looks very festive for the holiday season but I love a good red accessory any time of the year and that golden C just ties it together so chicly.

I also purchased the giant yellow sticky notes and they are truly, truly giant. They're about the size of a traditional mousepad. I did not think they were that big but it serves me right for once again not checking out the measurements (same thing happened with a necklace I recently ordered). 

I have a few other things from Poppin as well and I'm really looking forward to ordering even more in the future. I just love everything about them and their product line is growing every week it seems. I cannot say enough nice things about them. If you're in need of some really cute office supplies, or maybe if you're just obsessed with them like I am, head on over to Poppin.com and check out what they have to offer.

Red Medium Soft Cover Notebook (w/ embossing) $9

Yellow Giant Sticky Notes $6

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A Clean Desk in Under 17 Minutes

I decided to take my own advice yesterday after complaining that my bedroom was becoming too big of a mess. So I took it upon myself to just focus on one area: my desk. I sit at my desk all day, every day, for hours on end. Between blogging, social networking, correspondence and school work, this is my true classroom/office. Here is a before and after look at how I cleaned my desk in under 17 minutes.

Before: as you can see, my desk gets cluttered very quickly.
Books, my iPad, supplies - they all fall victim to lazy organization.

And after! Everything has a place and there is a place for everything.

I purchased these Martha Stewart boxes at Staples a few months ago.
They stack perfectly on top of each other so I can store my jewelry underneath the post-its.

These don't fit in the pencil/pen caddy, so this larger box works perfectly!

Extra supplies: wall unit for my Macbook Pro, the HDMI converter
for my iPad, and my Square card reader. 

I converted some old JewelMint boxes into handy organizational boxes.
Like the martha Stewart ones, these can also be stacked. And the velvet
lining helps keep everything in place! 

The view from my chair.
It's a lot easier to sit here and work when there isn't a lot of clutter!

On the keyboard tray to the right: school work.

On the keyboard tray to the left: iPad, a notebook, and my other laptop.
Oh, and my crappy phone!

The next cleaning project to tackle? The top of my dresser. It's even worse than the desk was (if you can imagine!)

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