Organized Knitting
Back in December I mentioned that I had taken up a knitting. Heidi commented "OMG, you are knitting!! That is awesome! Now you can tell all us readers how to organize our hordes of yarn. :-) [...]
Inspired by Carolyn
I met Carolyn almost a year ago. She contacted me via email as many of my potential clients do. She asked the regular questions…how does it work? How do we get started? Things like that. Like [...]
Slippery When Frozen: Slip-Ups When Organizing
Last week, we had an ice storm. It was nothing terribly dramatic—no power outages or downed trees—just your run-of-the-mill-thin-sheet-of-ice ice storm. It was enough ice for school to be called off and to make it tricky [...]
Would you rather…
...go to the grocery store or clean your house? I need to do both tonight and would much, much rather clean than grocery shop. I think this shift happened right around the time milk hit $3 [...]
The Eye Candy Book
Continuing with the organizing books theme...here's my favorite eye candy book: Pottery Barn Storage & Display. It's loaded with ideas for creatively storing your items and using storage as display throughout your spaces. The photography is simply stunning...as you [...]
Try Before You Buy
Here’s a simple solution I use with clients when we’re trying a new organizing idea or system in their home. Instead of buying a storage solution and then discovering it doesn't work well or they don’t [...]
10 Ways to Add Creativity to Your Organizing Projects
Repeat after me: organizing and creativity go hand in hand. Organizing gives you space for creativity and creativity makes organizing more fun. This is the philosophy of my blog and my approach to organizing. Here’s why. First, [...]
Favorite Organizing Books – Post Two
Thanks for all the comments on the last post about organizing books. You all reminded me of some of my other favorites and I learned about some new books, too. Great fun all this sharing of [...]
Favorite Organizing Books
Can reading a book change your life? Yes. If you take the actions that the author suggests in the book. Simply reading and absorbing the information in an organizing book (or any other self-improvement book for [...]
Make Organizing Fun!
On New Year’s Day, my family and I participated in the annual event known as taking down the Christmas decorations. Maybe you’re familiar with this event and even participated recently yourself. If so, you’ll know that [...]