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 [...]
...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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I've decided once again to join Ali's one little word project again for 2009. I seriously love the simplicity of this idea. Selecting one word as a point of focus for the year ahead. I truly love this. My [...]
Spent the day wrapping gifts...my favorite holiday task of all. This year I used things I already had on hand. Just bought one new roll...the "Santa wrap" shown above. This is the never-before-seen wrap that is [...]