On My Dining Room Table Right Now

1 finished gourd bowl
1 almost finished gourd bowl, awaiting only a final coat of shellac
1 plastic box full of cheap acrylic paint and glitter
1 metal box containing sandpaper, notecards, wood markers, a misplaced sharpie and 2 paper packets of seeds, sunflower and pumpkin
1 round portable CD player
1 empty plastic container for a wrist brace
1 broken toilet flush lever
1 working toilet flush lever that nonetheless does not fit in the toilet
1 dishtowel
1 lipstick, missing top
1 small ceramic vase
1 empty shoebox
1 large 3 ring binder full of collected recipes
1 page from a photo album, depicting the owner of the table between 1977 and 1981
1 pamphlet from a local PR agency
1 plastic envelope of savings account documents
1 sheet of paper with World of Warcraft hints on it, scrawled in blue ink
1 pencil
1 empty CD case
1 cel phone charger
1 section of newspaper from 2 Sundays ago
2 jigsaw puzzles, in boxes
2 halves of 1 broken dowel
2 boxes of oil pastels
2 half empty bags of plastic army men accoutrements: tanks, helicopters, fences
2 sketchbooks
2 notebooks: 1 spiral, 1 marble
3 cassette tapes
3 books: T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End; Alices Restaurant Cookbook; North American Birds
4 candles on 1 red glass plate
5 copies of Cooking Light
5 ceramic tiles
6 sheets of tax instructions
7 cleaned gourds, more or less in progress