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I’ve always found it hard to blog post-holiday season. I mean, how can I top trees and mini wreaths and twinkle lights? And then there’s all that cold and gray and early darkness that follows … for what feels like months and months on end

And as I play the lottery (usually online with a mix of hand-picked numbers and auto selected numbers) I immediately start house hunting. Because as I’m picking those lottery numbers, I’m toggling back and forth with Zillow and Trulia and realtor.com My focus (these days) of those Zillow and Trulia and realtor.com house searches are on downtown Chicago (shhhhh, don’t tell my husband). If you would like to feature a post from It All Started With Paint, you may use one picture and a clear link back to the project.

Now there’s a logical reason I’m claiming this corner of the living room as my office space. Tucked behind this laptop table, all dressed up in my yoga pants and over-sized hoodie with my hair pulled back in a pony tail and reading glasses firmly affixed to my face. Now I can keep this home office corner of my living room organized and clutter free by tucking away all my pens and notepads and notebooks filled with “to do’s” and future project and post ideas. So while I return to the magic making, I thought I’d share all of my home office shopping resources …

Fabric Wrapped Cork Board DIY – How To Make Cork Board with Fabric. So today, in honor of sub-zero temperatures, I thought I’d share a project worthy of a polar vortex kind of day … Fabric (I used this gray/beige/white paisley fabric, purchased from an Etsy shop) Cut the fabric, leaving a 1-2 inch border around all sides