My almost-10-year-old son, Peter, personalizes anything and everything.  He loves to draw, paint, make crafts, and decorate things.  Neither his father nor I are particularly artistic, although his paternal grandfather in Eastern Europe does oil paintings as a hobby.  We have one of his framed oil paintings hanging over our living room sofa, plus a few others downstairs that we still need to frame and hang.

I keep both of my children’s homeschool textbooks and workbooks in two file drawers in our living room, where we usually do their lessons.  As soon as I bought these file drawers, Peter began putting stickers on the front of his.  He likes any kind of sticker.  He gets them from bunches of bananas, from Christmas card envelopes, from the greeter at Wal-Mart, etc.  By this point, he’s running out of room on the front of his file drawer, and so he’s begun putting stickers on top of stickers.

Here’s his drawer: