I love that this room is super fancy (by my standards at least!)

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!

I loved seeing a whole book kind of materialize in front of my eyes within a few days..So, fast forward a few more weeks and they decided that we were good to go with the book!

They told me they’d be sending me a contract and I could start writing the whole book from start to finish and I could turn it in at the end of March.

“OK, Courtenay, you’re an author now.Keep an eye out for those!.

So this mason jar.I’ve seen quite a few of those DIY mercury glass type jars around, and I love those, but I do still have to lay off the spray paint for a few more weeks, so I thought it might be fun to try out some gold this time around..

I started off with one of these leftover from some pasta sauce..I added three coats of this stuff with a little paintbrush.