Messy Desk, Souvenir of Cambridge

It's time to clean my desk. I think I might be becoming an art-supplies hoarder. A few of the things I've collected over the past month:

• antique daguerrotype embossed foil framing bits (a whole pile from the queechee gorge village antique store)
• lovely vintage crinkly blue foil ribbon (to use as water/waterfalls for my dudes)
• vintage marimekko fabric (todd's farm)
• a paper mache life size arm with clenched hand and painted blood on the end (yard sale)
• a tiny old book with beautiful plates called "Souvenir of Newport, RI" (antique barn in the Lake Champlain Islands)
• an embarrassing amount of other tidbits what is wrong with me???​

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About the "Souvenir of Newport" book: I've decided to make one modeled after it called "Souvenir of Cambridge." I've already drawn the front cover, now to come up with my own favorite scenes to include....