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What's On Your Desk


Prudence has posted some lovely cozy pictures of her two cats on her desk (I am extremely jealous!). I have nothing to show but this mess. The green things are my finger puppets--they help me design book covers. The thing-a-ma-jig is two dancing lady bugs, and the mini-Etcha-a-Sketch is just fun to play with. The Goofy mug holds my coffee, and the little black container holds my 72% chocolate. Ho hum.

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Sassy Sundry said…
No way. My desk is terrifying.
12:54 PM
Anonymous said…
Yea but you can actually see your desk! I croped most of the mess out of mine. OOO how I love %72 Chocolate.. dark of course.
4:48 PM
dive said…
That looks suspiciously neat, young Robyn.
My desk looks much the same as when I last posted it except maybe slightly messier.
5:26 PM
Miz Minka said…
Oh, I'm so glad I don't have my camera with me! My desk is a mess. But how come you're only showing part of your desk, Robyn? ;)
6:25 PM
Scout said…
OK, my desk is shockingly tidy, but I just moved in last week. Give me time to make it as messy as my home office. Only part of it shows here because I used the camera on the Mac. The rest is just as empty. Maybe I need for candy. Oh, and mechanical pencils. I can never have too many mechanical pencils.
6:37 PM
Miz Minka said…
I posted a picture of my messy desk at home. It's looked worse! I love dark chocolate too, I almost always have some in my desk drawer at work. (At home I prefer gummy bears...) And I can never have too many mechanical pencils either, because I'm constantly losing or misplacing them.
9:40 PM
Gina said…
My desk here at home is both messy and ugly, so no pictures from me!
12:24 PM
Cheltenhamdailyphoto said…
Inspirational and neat. I joined the call for desk photo, if a little late!
5:19 PM
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