Show Us Where You Live Friday/Office Edition

This is Show Us Where You Live Friday at Kelly's Korner.

Today we are showing our offices.  This is one of my favorite rooms in my house because it is all mine!  I have my computer where I blog and keep up with all of you but I also have shelves and drawers for all my other interests.

I always wanted a book shelf just for my cookbooks.  I have more cookbooks than shelf space so I just dedicated a couple shelves totally for my FAVORITE cookbooks.
I love pitchers and teapots so I display a few of them here too.
I found these leather and linen boxes at Dillard's one year after Christmas for a great mark-down price and knew I could use them in my office.  I keep all my CDs here.  Also room on the shelf for a few more teapots!
I love keeping things in baskets and out-of-sight.  I found the square baskets at IKEA and they fit the space perfectly.  I keep computer paper and supplies in them.  And other stray items.
My office area has two big drawers that have hanging files where I keep all-occasion cards, files on the dogs, recipe files, medical files, bank statements, etc.
Most of the art work I have has been acquired on my travels.  I absolutely love the above watercolor that was an original done on the streets of Budapest, Hungary.  I watched the artist paint the bridge spanning between Buda and Pest.  You know they are two cities with the Danube River flowing down the middle!  Just beautiful.
Because I love teapots, I bought this postcard of porcelain teapots to frame from a museum in Romania.
Hanging on my wall is my picture with my friends in college from the University of Arkansas.

I was in the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority in the late 60's and early 70's. You really can't see me but I am the end of the fifth row.   I had shoulder- length straight hair  with a little flip on the edge in those days.

My office just happens to be what originally was suppose to be the laundry room off the kitchen.  We moved the laundry room next to the master bedroom and so the laundry room area became my office on one side and the pantry on the other.  Hubs built this pantry and it takes up the whole wall space opposite my desk area.
Here are three of my favorite books in my office.  First, is my old Broadman hymnal.  This is what I learned to play hymns in when I was very young and taking piano lessons.  I still love this old green hymnal.

The little cookbook, "Fun to Cookbook" is one my Mother got my sister and me to use from the Carnation Evaporated Milk company probably in the 1950's.   I think every recipe has evaporated milk in it!

The big white cookbook, The Joy of Cooking, was my hubby's  gift to me for our first anniversary on January 23, 1772.   I bet he thought then he was in for a lifetime of home cooking!  Seasons change........... moving on.........!
Here are some real old little cookbooks from my mother's collection of cookbooks.  I just couldn't get rid of these!
I try to keep this little spot to the right of my computer to see the missionaries for whom I pray.  Some are on the field in foreign lands, others are in home missions and one is a chaplain serving in Afghanistan.

I also have the picture of our little boy we support through Compassion International in Nicaragua.  My prayer is to see him in person on one of our trips to Nicaragua someday!

 

Also I keep scripture on notecards that I change every few days.  I usually just write scriptures that speak to me and that I need to hear and hide in my heart.
These pictures are my latest addition to my office and I imagine this is just a start!  Do you think I might run out of wall space before I run out of sweet pictures of our Harper??

Thanks for coming by and visiting my office!  You don't need an appointment to drop by my office......just drop me a comment!!