If you’ve seen me on a Hangout video with Jason Matthews’ Indie Authors show, you will know that I have a paper towel holder and a red cutting board behind my desk as well as a stainless steel toaster and tea kettle. I tried to hide some of the kitchen mess with an orchid from my living room table, but that didn’t work well.
After seven years in my kitchen, I now have a desk in a proper room.
Just in case you didn’t see my kitchen, check this out. Here I’m introducing Jason Matthews and our wonderful panel of indie authors from my kitchen. Looks like I forgot to put the oven dish with foil away. Two of my sons were home during these videos, and I told them not to come into the kitchen while we were recording. Poor kids were thirsty and starving, they had to go out and get food as they couldn’t get to the fridge.
I converted my youngest son’s bedroom into an office and purchased a used cherry wood table and file cabinet, from Craig’s list.
You should have seen Duke and I struggle to carry this table off his truck into our garage, and then slide it along our narrow hallway into my son’s bedroom. Duke had to take the door off the hinges as it barely fit.
Can you see the photo on the wall in front of me? Well that’s a present from a friend in Belize, Olivera Rusu, a professional photographer on the island where we lived called, Ambergris Caye. She sent me this photo for my birthday; it’s from Azul, a small resort about half a mile north of where we lived.
Duke received this beautiful photograph of Goff’s Caye, an island eleven miles from Belize City.
What do you think? Comments?
Sonia Marsh is on her virtual blog tour this month.
You can check out all my interviews here, and tomorrow I shall be in France with Stephanie Dagg and her wonderful Blog in France.
I shall also be speaking on Monday September 24th at Signal Hill Library with one of the winners of the “My Gutsy Story” contest, Jill Fales. Remember Jill?
Congrats on the new digs!!
The office looks fabulous!
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Sonia–I love your new office. I have an ‘office’ downstairs that I can’t use because it is also the room where I’m storing my two adult kids ‘stuff’ until they find new places to live. I’ve been really tempted to take one of their bedrooms on the main floor and turn it into a cozy office/den for me to use, and after looking at your space, I just may do that! Thanks for the inspiration, and your desk/table looks wonderful–just perfect for writing.
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Yes, I think you should take one of the bedrooms and turn it into your own cozy office, Sylvia.
I also wanted to let you know that you’ve been nominated for the “Seven Things About Me” award–details can be found on my blog. Hope you’re having a blast with your blog tour!
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Thanks so much Sylvia. I just popped over and appreciate your nomination.
Your office looks lovely! I have a large and messy one!
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Your new office looks very nice. I especially love the beachy picture. You lived a half mile from there?! Why did you ever come back 🙂
Lauren,
Good luck with sending your manuscript to agents. You sound like you have a ton of ideas in your head to write about. We came back as we couldn’t start a business. There’s more to living in “paradise” than we originally thought. It’s all in my memoir.
I like it! And I love the ocean photos!!! So cool. I have one in my office too and it is made to look like you are looking out a window. Pretty cool. Hvae fun on your virtual tour.
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