Since both Alan’s desk and mine are in the living room, I like to try and keep our work surfaces tidy. (Try being the operative word, ha ha.) Alan is super particular about his writing instruments (his pen choice of the moment are these Eberhard Faber fine point felt tip pens, in case you were wondering 🙂 but loses them all the time, so he has lots and lots of them piled all over his desk. Our little office area was starting to look like Staples, so I decided a desk organizer was in order. After searching for something simple and modern, it was a toss up between this modular one and this wooden whale. In the end I went with the whale because he’s cute and because he holds…

…pens in his spout…

…iPhones in his tail…