New Desk Area and Dollar Store Pails

This is my old desk area, my trusty red desk.  A wonderful red desk, it has been mine forever, my childhood desk.  When I needed somewhere to put my laptop, I painted my desk red and put it in the kitchen.  It has served me well all these years but it was time to retire this poor desk

Welcome to my new desk area, isn't wonderful?  Cabinets from a local cabinetmaker and very reasonable.  Two desk areas for the girls to do homework and projects.

I needed something for all the pens, pencils, highlighters and Sharpies.  I found these pails at Dollar Tree:

In the Pottery Barn catalog, you see things numbered quite a bit.  So I thought that would be perfect for these pails.  I bought stencils, since I can't paint a straight line but the stencils were 4" tall and I needed 3" stencils.  Lucky for me the girls' best friend was over last weekend.  She is quite the artist, so I asked her to paint numbers on the pails for me.  I think she thought I was crazy, but did it very quickly.   She outlined the numbers and Meredith painted the inside:

Here is a bigger view of the desk with the pails.  I am still working on what to put behind the glass doors.

Here is what the desk area was before:

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