What's always on your craft desk?

Mess!🤣🤣🤣

My desk is 30"x15" and is also where I store all of my paper (upright, in a magazine holder & one 12x12 paper holder, plus the pads upright).

I have less than a foot of paper, to leave me room to work.

My desk also always holds my tape dispenser and an oversized cup that holds my pens, Sharpies, scissors, bone folder, etc.

I have a lamp, a bowl full of roller stamps, a black ink pad since that's the color I use most, a large paper trimmer, and a jar of markers/pens. Everything else is in drawers.

I used to keep a big mess out but we have a cat now and I had to put a stop to that if I didn't want little teeth marks in everything.

My current tables isn't huge.

Items always on my desk:
2 Ott light
Paper trimmer
ATG
Ink pad towers (2) with my most used inks
My stamp shammy cleaner in a jar
Creative memories pen storage cup
Bucket of other frequently used adhesives

When my space moves upstairs in a few weeks and I am in the family room, I think I will *try* to keep my desk quite clear. I may not need the Ott lights, or maybe just 1, my space has 6 LED can lights (I think you could see me from space). I will also have storage under my new workspace with 3 drawers, a cabinet, and open shelving on the sides. So, in theory, plenty of places to put the stuff that lives on my desk-except the ink towers. Not sure what to do with those...

I keep my tool “box” (a hard plastic pencil case) on my desk, which holds adhesive, scissors, stamp blocks, a few most-used inks, bone folder, tweezers, pens, pencil, adhesive eraser/pick-up square, post-it pad, eraser, edge distresser.

I also have my TT Ditto bag with my most-used punches, roller date stamps, mists, twine, tiny attacher, paper piercer, craft knife, brushes, washi, and tags.

I keep my trimmer at the end of my desk. I have a letter organizer full of stamps (mostly alphas). I also have a bottle of Un-du. And it wouldn’t be complete without some hand cream and blistex. 😉

I use a very large dining table for my crafting. It is full! LOL! I like to have things with in reach while I am crafting and keep quite a bit near by. I don't want to have to get up all the time. In front of me is my work space. I have my WeR magnetic self healing mat there. It's an older one that is pink and measures something like 14 x 20. To my left is my Big Shot. Left front is my lamp. Directly in front of me is a cup with pens, pencils, markers. I keep my tape runner and scor tape, and misc. things (like enamel dots, twine, etc) I may be using right in front of me also. Right front I have 3 little baskets for regularly used things. 1 holds my scissors, pick, craft knife, tweezer, and adhesive eraser. 2 holds most of my liquid glue bottles. 3 holds wink of stella pens, a couple little stickers books, and some misc. Directly to my right are my paper trimmers.
That is all within reach. Also on my table are my holders of Nuvo drops, holder of Stickles, a basket with additional misc. adhesive, a basket with larger tools (files, hole punch, sanding tool, etc), and 2 totes of letter stickers and thickers.
At any given time, there may be additional stuff stacked in where ever! LOL! But, this is how I try to keep it for the most part.

ETA: how could I forget my clear ruler!

I came here to say this! LOL

No matter how much room I give myself I always end up with a little more than a 12X12 spot. To my right is my cutterpillar crop trimmer, ATG, a Luna Lovegood mug with brushes/scrapers and a nail polish rack filled with my distress oxide sprays. On my left is a smallish tiered organizer with scissors, pens, pencils, tweezers and other common tools, my small bowl for my "bashket" and my two small sterilite 3 drawer organizers for rainbow die cuts. oh and my huge lamp that is attached

I currently have a long and narrow desk so whatever I have on it has to be fairly slimline. I do have a lot on the desk, ink pad storage, plastic photo containers with my most used diecuts, a box that holds all of my sticker books, another with glues and adhesives and hole punches/corner rounder and another with my pens and scissors. I would actually prefer to have nothing or just the adhesives and pens but I just don't have a storage solution that makes them easy to reach and close by.

In a perfect world and hopefully in the not so distant future I will have a bit of a room redo and I will get a chest or draws to use as a standing desk and have all of those things in the top draw that I can access whenever I need to use them.

Have a smaller tiered tool carousel, large TH glass mat and a small Make Art magnetic mat. For lighting have a clamped on is a jewelers light, round florescent with large magnifier and a floor standing Ott Light. My desk is 80" x 30".

paper trimmer and three tiered carousels of tools, glues, scissors, etc

I have a small vintage desk and I'm a messy piler when I craft. I have a table lamp, 3 jars with pens and tools, and an old Martha Stewart desk organizer that holds adhesives, stamp platforms, score board, and acrylic blocks. Everything else is in my drawers or on my Costkog cart next to me. I have another table behind me where I put more piles when I'm trying to clear off my desk but my space is usually covered in half-finished cards and pieces I'm planning to use. I try to only have my die cutting machine and trimmer on the desk when I'm actively using them but I often find myself making cards on the awkward 5" width of my trimmer.

No link for that one.  We have a pop up store called Rush Market (only in 2 cities-so they say) and the other one is Omaha.  When you find something, you grab it.  I rarely pop in the store and just happened to try it a few months ago.