What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday: Too Much!

When I first joined WOYWW, I had just cleaned up my desk and it looked oh, so neat and organized!  I could almost believe it myself that I was such an organized, neat person. A place for everything and everything in it's place!  Well, I wouldn't want to deceive you that my desk always looks like that and this week is an example!

This is the desk of someone who wants to get so many things done all at the same time. At first, I thought I would just work on my computer.  I'm assigned to prepare a sharing about passing on our faith to our children (any advice?).  Well, I started doing that but before long I decided that I also wanted to do some sewing.  So my sewing machine, which is usually pushed into the corner gets into place towards the center.  My daughter just got back from a few days in India and she brought home some kurta tops (you know, the embroidered long sleeved tops they wear). The seams weren't finished so I decided to finish the seams with zigzag stitches. I also wanted to cut off the sleeves of one or two of the blouses since it is quite hot in the Philippines and a short sleeved blouse would be more practical.

But wait, even before I had started, I caught sight of some old books and magazines that were supposed to get thrown out for recycling. But of course, I had to look over them first and clip out whatever I found useful.

Any pages with...

...nice patterns and pictures got saved for collages...

 ...portraits got saved for inspiration for art...

 ...colors got saved for paper beads (almost all the colored pages!)

 Then, I also got the pages with interesting articles, mostly about health and beauty, diet, exercise, parenting, marriage, interior design, etc.  Poor recycling bin, very little of the magazine's pages were left for recycling after I got all the pages I wanted.

What a mess! Oh, and look what my sister found while she was cleaning up - this painting and in the back, my name and my high school year and section!  I wouldn't have even known I painted this if my name weren't in the back! Hmmm, not bad for a teenager, don't you think?

Well, when my desk is this messy, I can always hide it and pretend I am neat and organized...

If you would like to see other work desks and their state of neatness or disarray, head on over to Julia's blog.  And if you would like a chance to win one of my ATCs, I'm having a giveaway for my followers in this post.  Happy blog hopping!