Inspiration, one step at a time...

**MomToTwoBoys** · 07-08-2009, 12:55 PM

My SIL has been helping me do the final edit on the book and in the process, she's been really loving some of the chapters. She got to the Stockpiling chapter of the book and guess what?

She's starting a stockpile!

I'm not entirely sure where she's going to keep it because she has a condo with her, my BIL, their two dogs and a new baby on the way, but she's determined to get it done.

I just wanted to let you all know what little things we can do to inspire others.

**Grainlady** · 07-08-2009, 05:21 PM

You'd be surprised how much you can store under beds, behind and under a sofa, up the side walls and back wall of closets if you make some shallow shelves the depth of cans or canning jars if you do home canning or store home dehydrated foods in canning jars like I do.

In an interior wall you can cut out a portion of the sheetrock, build shelves between the studs and place a false panel over it that looks like wainscoating. We did this in our basement.

On one or both sides of a window you can build-in shallow floor to ceiling shelves and cover the shelves with matching or contrasting fabric to the existing window covering. It makes it look like you have a larger window, but you've gained a lot of storage space in a normally unused area of a room.

Change your bed from a frame to a platform bed with drawers under it.
http://www.nextag.com/bed-drawer-sto...er/search-html

Make a side table from a large metal or plastic trash can. Top it with a round of ply-wood topped with a round tablecloth that drapes over the entire trash can. Add a round sheet of plexi-glass (these used to be available at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, etc.) on the top to keep the top of the tablecloth clean. I had a friend who kept hers in her bedroom for bedside tables and kept them filled with wheat. My sister uses this type of storage for off-season clothes storage.

**Momto2Boyz** · 07-09-2009, 09:40 AM

I was working on my novel the other day and I was thinking about you and wondering how your book was coming! I didn't know if you were sending it out to publisher's yet or not!

Keep up the hard work, I'm sure it'll be rewarded!

**MomToTwoBoys** · 07-09-2009, 06:21 PM

Thanks.

I'm gonna give the book the finishing edit as soon as SIL sends me what she's gone through and since I have at least half of it edited, I'm going to contact publishers next week and offer them a few chapters. I'll see who bites and who can bite my you-know-what, if they don't like it.

I need to order some more color ink and bonded paper, then I can send out the chapters. For now, I'm just going to send query letters and see who nibbles at the idea of the book.

**momof2joys** · 07-10-2009, 01:12 AM

It's funny how putting things in writing or even saying them enough can get a fire going under someone's butt...LOL!!! I have noticed this with my sister, she is starting to pick up on little things that I do and doing them at her house or asking about the best way to do it!! Makes a person feel good!

As for your book, WOW, what motiviation!! I would love to read it, so if it goes to print, let us know, so we can all read it!!! Good luck!!!