As you've probably noticed lately, our mindset about clearing the stuff and junk out of our house that we haven't been using at all in the last 6-10 years has really clarified. If you'd talked to us a few months ago, you would have found out that we had dreams of...
My husband and I have been together for 12 years -- and in that time period, I have to admit that we have rarely gotten rid of things. Instead, we were just constantly adding to our collection. When we moved from Florida to Frankfurt, we got rid of a few things that...
This is an updated post from January 2012. I wanted to share it again, because after using Evernote to organize recipes for the last few months, I've learned a few new tricks! Plus I think my new friends from the William Morris Project could really benefit from this...
We just went through a nasty round of colds again and there were a few days when Mack was really looking miserable. So instead of forgetting about my collection of essential oils until the cold was almost over, I actually remembered that I could probably make her more...
Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to take a look at things we have in our house that I like but never actually use. One of these things happens to be baskets. Over the last 10 years (actually mostly in the last 6 since we moved to the farm), I have collected...
June 20th is the first official day of summer in 2012. And we have a ton of things we'd like to work on this year. So I am picking 10 things from our massive to do list that we need to get done before summer starts...just to break things down a bit for us. So of the...
It's been another successful week when it comes to making our home more beautiful and filled with useful things. In fact, Stefan was actually super productive during his short vacation last week and worked on a project that we've been talking about doing for the last...
Lately we've been taking a lot of strides to get our list of projects pulled together in a complete list that includes not only all the areas in our house that are part of the Decluttering Mission of 2012, but also all those "honey do" home renovation projects (both...
Yesterday I was talking a bit about how to find the times of the day when your kids are occupied that will allow you concentrated working time. But if you don't actually separate yourself from the family or step away from the other chaos in your home, you may still...
In keeping with my attack on the kitchen, I recently realized that also our silverware drawers in the kitchen are fairly organized, there is still a bit of chaos in there. So when we purchased the plastic tubs for the spice storage, I also grabbed a few random small...
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