My officemates and I recently moved into our newly renovated offices. My team was the only group that didn't get individual offices; because we spend so much of our time working collaboratively, it was decided that an open plan office would work better for us.

This works great and I wouldn't have it any other way. The only problem is we ended up with these refurbished cubes that aren't exactly brimming with natural good looks.

So one of my coworkers decreed that every day we'd spend at least a few minutes engaging in "pretty time", where we would try to beautify our office space in some way (can you tell I work with a bunch of women?). When I discovered magnets would stick to the cube walls , I found 50 rare earth magnets for cheap on Ebay and started wallpapering my cube walls with Nancy Drew book cover postcards.

I've run out of Nancy Drew book postcards, and I have 20 magnets left and another four cube wall panels. Oh yes, I will cover up every square inch of bland gray cubicle fabric. Next I have to figure out what to do about the bland gray cubicle desk surface.