An office desk usually looks cluttered when you are working at your desk, or you have not arranged important documents on your desk for a long time. A messed up desk does not necessarily mean the user is a messy person, because as we all know that ‘even the most organized person is bound to have storage issues’. In fact, there are many odds and ends that may stare you at the face from a desk’s surface, and even a meticulous person may have a hard time clearing this mess.

In this article, we will give you some tips on creating desk accessories for your organization.

However, with some degree of creativity and resolve to sort things neatly, you can customize your desk with suitable desk accessories and keep everything in order.

If you create custom desk accessories, you will be able to organize things better and you will have the provision to recycle it as well. In this article, we will share with you some good tips and help you create your own leather desk accessories.

You will need a few things to make this luxurious looking leather desk accessory. They are –

An old phone book
Paper guillotine
1-inch wide, 1-inch long copper tube fittings
Varnish
Old faux leather purses, jackets, pants, etc.
Flexible measuring tape
Plastic containers
Scissors
Spray adhesive
Metal embellishment studs
Hot glue
Photo and Business Card Holder

Follow the steps carefully and make your own leather desk accessories –

You can begin by tearing the covers from an old phone book, if you have any. Slip a finger between pages so you have a section about ¼-inch thick. Then open the phone book and place your thumbs on either side of the crease in the opening. You can now rip the phone book apart at the spine, which will give you a ¼-inch thickness of pages.

The second step is to slide your pages into your paper guillotine so that the blade hits them about 3 inches from one end. You should then push the blade down quickly and smoothly. Slice a 3-inch section from the rest. Remember, you should use sliding paper guillotines to make leather accessories, because the blade has to pivot up and down.

You may then varnish a piece of copper tubing and let it dry. This process will help to preserves the shine of the leather. Start at the spine side of your 3-inch section of phone book pages and roll them tightly into a cylinder. Ensure that the edges of the pages stick out slightly around the cylinder.

The final step is to push the end of your paper cylinder into your varnished copper tube in a way such that 2” of the paper sticks up from the tube. Ideally, the edges of the paper should flare out slightly; then, make the cylinder stand upright.

Your leather desk accessory is now ready for use. You will feel proud of your craft skills as you slip business cards, wallet-sized photos, reminder notes and other similar stuff between the pages.