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So during the first 2 weeks of February, we’re going to fill in these little tags for each other and maybe it will start to feel like this time of year is about a little more than just ugly red flowers and boxes of chocolates.

How to Update Old Ceramic Jars with Spray Paint.How to Paint Mason JarsWell, my friends, this laundry room project isn’t anywhere near being finished.

In fact, it’s hardly even begun!We made this DIY faux butcher block counter as a distraction when we were trying to figure out what to do about our heated floors in the new bathroom and it’s turned out to be one of my favorite projects ever!So even though the whole room isn’t really ready for its close up, I just had to tell you all about it!.

Our laundry room is a little nook off of our kitchen so we like it to be pretty tidy and also to function really well, since it’s one of the first things you see when you come in through the kitchen mud room.It’s been kind of a resting place for lots of different things over the last few years, but nothing that really helped its function as a laundry room/pantry/extra kitchen space/whatever.

Whenever I folded laundry, it would end up in piles on the kitchen table.

The table is pretty big, so we could still find space to eat at it, but it was just really a big eyesore.. Chris had the idea to put a long counter in the laundry room for me to fold on and then he also thought we might as well add in a cork board and make it kind of a command center too!One of the first things that I found really surprising about the whole book-writing thing is just how much back-and-forthing goes on before the book-writing can even really begin!

Well, it may be a little different for every author, because of course there are those that write the book first and then “shop” it around to different publishers.In my case, the publisher reached out to me to see if writing a book would be something that I would be interested in, and we started building the concept for the book from there..

When the editor at the publisher first emailed me, of course I was excited and felt pretty honored that she/they had read my blog and felt that my writing style and what I wrote about would be fitting for an actual real, live book.We scheduled a time to chat on the phone about the book idea a little bit more, and my impression was honestly that she would be kind of trying to sell me on the idea of writing a book for them and letting me know what that would entail and it would just be up to me to either say “yes” or “no”.. Ha!.