Holidays : I'm an Organizing Junkie

Planning for the holidays

Posted by Laura on November 7, 2009 · 3 Comments

I’m over at BlogHer today discussing how to get organized for the holidays with a little advance planning. A stress-free holiday is totally possible, find out how I do it over here. image courtesy of BasketMaker

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Gift Wrap Stations

Posted by Laura on November 4, 2009 · 19 Comments

The other day I showed you how I store my gift bags, wrap and cards in my gift closet. In case you don’t happen to have an available closet, I wanted to show you some other alternatives that I’ve found that may be helpful to you as you set up a system that works for [...]

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Gift Closet

Posted by Laura on November 2, 2009 · 34 Comments

When the going gets tough, I get organizing. It’s what I do to zone out and not think about anything else. It works amazingly well. The payoff at the end is awesome and it helps me to feel more in control when things around me might not necessarily be so. I’ve been wanting to tackle [...]

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Some excellent organizing help to start the new year off right

Posted by Laura on December 28, 2008 · 6 Comments

I’m just popping in to tell you about an upcoming seminar this week. The lovely Cara from The Household Helper has put together a LIVE teleseminar on how to get organized in 2009. Here’s what she has to say: It’s a tradition for people to make New Years Resolutions each year. It makes you feel [...]

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MPM ~ Dec 22nd Christmas Menu!

Posted by Laura on December 21, 2008 · 38 Comments

Welcome to the Christmas edition of Menu Plan Monday! Yesterday I spent some time looking through my Reiman magazines (Simple & Delicious/Healthy Cooking) and some internet sites trying to narrow down our Christmas menu. I love looking at all the pictures, I just wished I loved to cook as well :). We always have Christmas [...]

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Christmas Card Planner & Log

Posted by Laura on December 17, 2008 · 22 Comments

As most of you know I love lists and that was especially evident in a post I wrote last year titled “How Regis & Kelly help me get my Christmas cards done“. Recently I had the opportunity to take this whole list obsession thing even one step further. I’ve been working with a company called [...]

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Say yes to less!

Posted by Laura on December 10, 2008 · 37 Comments

Wow ladies, I am blown away and blessed by your responses to yesterday’s post. As always the comments offer so much more wisdom and insight than I ever could. I appreciate you taking the time to reflect and share where you are in your own lives and what you are perhaps doing differently this year [...]

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Menu Plan Monday ~ Oct 6th (Thanksgiving Edition!)

Posted by Laura on October 5, 2008 · 91 Comments

Hey everyone! Technically it’s not Thanksgiving here in Canada until next Monday but we always celebrate on the Sunday night before so we can all sleep in the next day after all our hard work :) Just wanted to explain why you are seeing my Thanksgiving menu this week instead of next. I’m so excited [...]