Since having my little boy, I have been splitting my time between my desk at ChickAdvisor HQ and my home office.  My HQ desk would have been an easier makeover because I don't share it with anyone and the desk design is so pretty to begin with, very little needs to be done.  My home desk is always a disaster.  I blame that on sharing it with my husband and my toddler who loves to pull things off of it onto the floor.  Items end up being dumped on the desk in a hurry with little regard to organization and certainly not design.  Behold:
 

I was tempted to tidy this up just a little so you guys don't think I'm a slob, but since you know who is really to blame here, I figure you aren't judging me.  Aside from the general disarray, this space is uninspiring. There is no colour and the half hidden tacky family photo where we all went to Wal-Mart wearing Christmas sweaters, isn't really a year round thing.  The family calendar isn't coming down anytime soon, but the scattered paperwork, stash of used batteries and day old wine glass aren't helping.

Knowing that Alexandra went to the dollar store for her challenge, I decided to do my shopping at Target.  While the prices aren't as cheap as they are south of the border, the selection is more colourful and imaginative than I expected.  Here are the items I picked up for my makeover. I spent about $30 before taxes:
 

All of these items are fun and eye catching, but I really love the picture frame.  I popped in a picture of my little family.  I'm considering D.I.Y'ing the ceramic bird Alexandra style, but I also love how it looks now.  After 15 minutes of cleaning my desk and adding the new elements it looks like this:
 

1. Teal storage box, $7ish  2. Picture frame, $9ish  3. Ceramic bird candle holder, $3ish  4. Pink journal $10ish

The pops of colour really made a difference, didn't they?  I also added a colourful book under the computer monitor to match my new colour scheme and swapped the Wal-Mart sweater photo for one from my honeymoon - mostly to remind me of how much I love my day-old-wine-glass-leaving desk mate.  This was so much fun I'm considering doing my HQ desk too.  What do you think?