More stuff on walls

I was a very happy camper when i found out i was to be given an office at work. No more cube - a bonafide office with a window and a door. In all my years in business i have never had one to call my own. So i went a bit crazy choosing a decorating theme. It is not quite done - but here are some fun shots of the things i bought to dress it up.
The pretty boxes are from Marshalls. They are filled with the stuff i have collected over 8 years working here - you know - the bottom drawer crap you just cannot part with. At least now I can use my bottom drawer for files. Or my purse. Or snacks. Mostly for snacks.
The large wall decal is from a company called ADZIF I bought it in Montreal at Zone. It was super easy to install and looks awesome.

Here is a bad photo of a cool panel i have hanging in front of the window. Oh man i hate mini blinds! This just fit perfectly beside the filing cabinet, so i left the blinds rolled up. I threw away the package, so i don't remember the manufacturer - but i also bought this at Zone. It is heavy plastic and could have been hung like this - or in a four square grid. It and the wall decal are very Tord Boontje. I just love his stuff.

I was cruising on line and found some chat from 2006 where design afficionados were saying they were so OVER the whole flowers birds and animals graphics thing. So maybe i am late to the game. But i love think it is fresh and fun. Girlie without being too sweet.
Someone pointed out that i overlook San Quentin prison. I guess I do. Over the trees off in the distance is in fact the San Francisco bay and the prison. Where Scott Peterson lives in case you have heard about him. Here is a very zoomed in shot. In the panoramic taken from the water, i would be way over to the left. But i pay no attention to the prison - but do very much enjoy the sky and the trees.
Sadly for the last two weeks and into the distant future my team and I are in "lock down" in a crowded office near our IT dept, finishing up the details of a major system implementation project. Yeah - 9 of us squished into one room, working 10-12 hours days to get everything ready. So i haven't even had a chance to USE my office. And working such long hours in seriously putting a damper on my creative time in the evenings. So i have nothing much new to post here or on the challenge blogs.
But please stay tuned. As you know i work in spurts and there is bound to be a creative spurt coming up some day soon!

Art on the walls, finally

When we were on vacation in July we had our house painted. The living room, entrance hallway, stairs and upstairs hall used to be BRIGHT yellow ochre. I loved it. Everyone commented on it. But after 8 years - i was sick of it. An equally sick of all my deep red and burgundy decorative accessories.
You may recall, back in january when i started this blog, i had just started the transformation - with all new christmas ornaments - all birds -all blue. I bought some lovely cushions in blue silk and had to wait until july for it all to come together.
Well, just this past weekend - we finally got all the artwork up on the walls. We had rearranged the furniture and I wanted to not stay stuck in a rut with all my stuff - so it took some time to figure it all out.
Front and center is the canvas i painted and wrote about here. The walls in these pictures looks very grey - in fact the color is called "Austere Grey" by SHerwin Williams. But in person - it is much more of a blue green - changing in the light. I wanted the perfect robin's egg blue. Not sure if that is what i got! But it looks really lovely and elegant. So some of my contemporary paintings (all by me - all interpretations of others) perhaps don't "go" anymore. We'll see once we live with it for a while.

Scattered throughout the room are other paintings i have done over the years. This is the "music corner". JIm's keyboards and drums (not shown) all live in what would normally be a dining room.
As promised i started a mini gallery of all the weekly challenges i have been doing this summer. There is a big wall to fill so i better get busy with more artwork!