Category Archives: Organizing

If it bothers you, change it!

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.”As written by Maya Angelou for Success
Part of my talk I did a couple of weeks ago included how important it is to pay attention to our inner [...]

Storage Stars ~ Two of them!

Oh my word is there a lot of organizing going on out there in blogland! You guys are on fire, I love it!
Quite a few of you mentioned your struggle with piles. Now I’m not a piler. In fact piles in my house make me crazy. Crazy to the point that [...]

Peter Walsh on Oprah ~ you had to know I would be taking notes!

Organizing Expert, Peter Walsh was on Oprah again today, this time discussing the concept of his new book, Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?
Clutter and weight can be symptoms of an unresolved, underlying issue in your life. “Eating more and buying more is an attempt to fill the need for something more,” he [...]

The possibilities are endless really….

Last year I was so excited when I bought some new baskets to use to organize my dishcloths, teatowels and bibs. Here is a picture of it.

Well the other day I decided to change it up for no other reason than to try something different. I love trying out different configurations. Same [...]

Capessa ~ I’m completely addicted already!

I’d have to say I’m the nosiest person I know. I love to people watch and I love trying to figure out their stories. Like the time we were on a plane to Mexico and I was convinced that the man and woman beside me were having an affair and on [...]

Living with intention…even when it comes to hair products

Some of you may remember that I have my own collection of sorts. I’m addicted to hair products and then because of the miracle of beauty these products claim to possess I can NEVER part with them. I figure the longer I hold on to them the more likely the promise of “dream hair” [...]

Let’s talk about the week over week calendar….

Back in August, while I was in Ontario, I found the niftiest week over week dry erase magnetic calendar to use for my menu planning each week. Well I got A LOT of email about my beautiful little planner from many lovely ladies wondering where I bought it from. I had purchased [...]

Calendar and Planner Links

Seems I’m not the only one with calendar obsession! To thank you for the great suggestions you left for me and for my future reference I am going to highlight and link your recommendations below.
I appreciate you feeding my addiction like that and I can’t wait to check them all out!
Kath recommends The [...]

You’ll be happy to know that I draw the line at putting a calendar in my bathroom….

Somehow I feel this post needs to come with a disclaimer because although I’m going to be discussing planners and calendars today I also need you to keep in mind that I might not necessarily be the best source of information for you. Why you might ask? Well that would be because I [...]

2008 ~ one “small thing” at a time!

Hello to you all and Happy New Year!
Now that the craziness is behind us it’s time to to get our homes back into some kind of order and create or re-establish our routines. I find though that I often procrastinate the most when I get overwhelmed and stressed over how much needs to be [...]

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