The right way to mop your floors (yes, there’s a right way)The zucchini cookery is still going strong over at our house!

You think that’s it’s just a matter of deciding “Hmm, I think I’ll write a book” and then you just start typing away, but when you’re working with a publisher, there’s an amazing amount of back-and-forthing that happens before you ever put pen to paper, or characters to screen, as the case may be.So after all of that went down, I was free to start writing this little book to my heart’s content, or rather, filling in the blanks in my already-decided-upon outline.

I was happily working away, a little a time, and then I got an email from my publisher one day that really threw me for a loop..They had this idea.This very interesting idea.

And it was not what we had previously decided on when we were first coming up with the concept for the book, at all.. Now, this may not seem like a big deal to you, but as a blogger who basically shares step-by-step photos for almost everything, always, this was kind of huge..The sales team at the publisher had suggested that maybe we would want to make the book black and white.

And make it smaller.

And make it cheaper.. Well, OK, I liked the idea of making it cheaper, because the more people that can get their hands on it, the better, of course.So this works exactly the same way, only circular!.

Treat the outer edge of the circle as the front of the shelf, that way as you turn the lazy-susan around, you can see everything that you’ve got, with no mystery items getting stuck somewhere in no-man’s-land in the middle.. You can then stick any duplicate items in a row behind that same item, heading back towards the center of the circle.Sometimes two rows of the same item will need to become one in a triangular shape to accommodate the circularness, but you’ll figure it out.

You’re a smart cookie.You can have one or two other items that you keep only in the middle of the circle, but make sure it’s stuff that you always like to have on hand so you know exactly what it is.