At work, I use a paper cup to hold all my pens.  Yes it falls down occasionally and spills them all out, but it works, most of the time.  One time when Kathryn came into work to visit me, she saw my paper cup penholder and pronounced it pathetic.  She told me she’d get a nice mug for me.  It’s really not that important to me, but as they say in the Men’s Prayer in the Red Green show, “I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.”

Kathryn kept offering me mugs to take into work, but none of them seemed right to me.  Then one time when we were at Michaels, (now before you question my manliness for going into Michaels, we had just been to Best Buy and bought a subwoofer for our awesome TV so I owed it to Kathryn) I saw these mugs that you paint and then bake in the oven kind of like at Color Me Mine.  I thought it would me a great fun activity and would be much more fun to have at work than some other random mug.  Ironically, I was the one that walked out of Michaels with something crafty and Kathryn was empty handed.

Well, we painted the mugs tonight.  I think they turned out pretty good.  Mine is very simple and clean looking, and Kathryn’s is just exploding with stuff.  It’s a fun look into our different decorating ideals.  I’m excited to take it to work and add it to my desk decor.

Mine:

Hers:

Before and after: