Still yawning from yesterday's Spring forward? Look on the literal bright side: It's almost Spring! And that means Spring accessories. Start by transforming your computer area with a nature-inspired mouse pad — one of these brightly colored Wood Grain Mouse Pads ($23) should do the trick. If you have to be inside on these sunny days, after all, you may as well pretend to be outside. View 4 Read more

I'm used to rhapsodizing over how much I love Thomas Paul stuff when I'm looking at home stuff, but the dreamy designer has done me proud by making Mouse Pads in his famous designs. Each mouse pad is as functional as it is pretty — they double as notepads for scribbling — and they're only $9 each, a far cry from what his pricey pillows and other accessories normally cost. View 4 Photos Read more

Mouse pads are usually just cute, maybe sometimes fun, but they're almost never this rad! The Headphones Mouse Pad ($7) is made from an original screenprint design — the medley of colors and the headphone print are TDF, right? It's way cooler than the primary-color gel-wrist mouse pad I'm rocking right now, so maybe it's time to change it up. My mouse will thank me. Read more

File this under "why haven't we seen more of these": The very duh but very awesome idea of a Notepad Mouse Pad ($13). I write on anything and everything near me, and flip out when I can't find a Post-it note, so this would be perfect for me. Though I'd be going through pages like gangbusters. Better order two! Read more

A lot of people don't like modern because it can be cold, but sometimes when it is that means it's really, really cool. Such is the case with DWR's Aluminum Mouse Pad ($35), which is spare, striking and literally cold to the touch (except for the felt wrist rest, natch). It may lack a certain patterned flair of say, a Marimekko mouse pad, but if you're edging away from using mouse pads because Read more