What's on my work desk today?

Join me and many others when they show their crafty desks, hosted by Julia of the Stamping Ground.
It's been a while since I participated - mainly because my desk has been such a mess.
I cleaned it to ship-shape back in May. It was lovely to work with less clutter, but slowly I have been slipping back to my old ways... Several projects going on at once, for example. If I get stuck with a set of atc's, I shove them back and work on something else.

Right now I am working on elaborate backgrounds for a challenge "Do something you have never done before".

These here are new on so many levels. Now my main concern is: can this be called patchwork?

Please, give me your honest opinion. I would value it very much!

linking with: WOYWW #326

WOYWW? #315: My desk is clean!

What I took home from last week's comments was to clean my desk, free it of clutter. This is my clean desk:

I also combined all my stashes. Now all stamps in one drawer (except for abc and numbers, they simply didn't fit!).
There is also now a drawer solely for colors. It houses ink pads, watercolors, inks, pencils and crayons.
I can't believe I didn't think of this before. Thanks everyone for great ideas!

I am working on my bird journal:

I showed the first page yesterday, a second one is in the works.

 linking WOYWW? #315

What's on My Desk / WOYWW? #314

I arrived from my trip and brought some new supplies with me.  There has been mail in my absence, some swap ATC's and materials for a bird journal that some of us are making this summer.
This new stuff is now in the center of the table; along the edges runs my usual mess of pens, water container, glue and ... stuff. I tried to make something, anything, last night, but I was totally overwhelmed by all the possibilities. On my trip I had to work with so little, and last week I could not work at all, so now this wealth of possibilities feels just too much. I hope I'll be in the loop soon...

I visited the beautiful city of...  can you guess? It has beautiful tiled floors at the uni which is one of the oldest in Europe (no, it's not Bologna). Horse-drawn carriages drive around the city (but it's not New York), it has wonderful pastry (but it's not Copenhagen), and a river flowing through (but it's not Paris)...

There are also plenty of interesting (latter-day) murals. This was taken on my way to the airport.

I find they provide good color inspiration. These red letters actually have pink dots in them, and the background is just the right shade of blue to make this look fresh.

Showing my desk at WOYWW? #314. Do hop over and show your's too!