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.
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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.

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.

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 of their Office Space-type looks, then this version might work great for your own fabulous office space.