Anytime is a great time for chocolate.. Did you know that studies have shown that if everyone consumed 33% more chocolate, that world peace would be here within 92.5 days?

I didn’t think I’d have to do much talking or “selling myself” because they really have access to a huge amount of my writing on my blog, and I just kind of thought that would speak for itself.There was a second call about a week or so later where we were supposed to talk about some ideas for concepts and things like that, and by that time I knew a little more about what to expect, so I came prepared!

I came up with a few different ideas for the book and got myself ready to talk about my general vision for what type of book I would want it to be and how I would want it to look and feel.I still felt like I really had to sell myself on that second call, maybe even more so than on the first call, but it was much easier when I knew that I was the one who would be doing most of the talking, job interview-style..So we landed on a concept pretty quickly and they asked me to send them a list of the chapters that I wanted to include in the book, along with the introductions to each of those chapters as it would appear in the book,.

1-2 fully-written chapters for them to look over.within a week or so and then they would look it over and make their final decision as to whether or not they really wanted to have me write this book for them.

Basically I wrote a really big chunk of the book and came up with most of my ideas for how the book would come together within about a week.

That sounded like a nearly impossible feat at first, but it was really amazingly easy!Measuring your own fabric is great because you can control exactly how they fall and get them to just slightly pool or graze the floor, depending on your mood..

I love this fabric next to our new floors and those big fat baseboards.Melts my heart every time!.

They look so nice and crisp next to the beadboard ceiling too..The DIY baseball finials that Chris made don’t hurt either!.