I keep a bowl of soft candies, bottle of water, my favorite little nipper scissors and of course my seam ripper. The most important items are a little note book of paper and a pen.....sticky notes to put on patterns as they are being worked on a dn it never fails I'll be making something and think of other things I want to make for other people and of course those random non sewoing things I jot down so i don't forget to do them when I get up from sewing. :lol: