Abstract: Pencil sharpener with replaceable decorative housing with a standard pencil sharpener and a pencil sharpener housing. The housing comprised of two halves. The housing having retaining brackets within the halves that position the pencil sharpener accurately within the housing so that the pencil entrance portion of the pencil sharpener is aligned with an aperture in the housing. The housing halves held together in a way that allows easy separation without tools such as a magnetic closure. A preferred embodiment includes a housing platform that allows the housing to rest securely on a flat surface. A preferred embodiment includes a label holding portion so that the housing stand can be customized with an appropriate label such as “one sharp teacher”, or “one sharp baseball player” or other sayings that relate to the shape of each the pencil sharpener housing.