Long time no post, I know, I know, but life sucked me in and has only just recently decided to spit me back out! I’ll write up what happened to me another time, but right now I’ve just popped on briefly to share how we plan our Christmas gifts. A few years ago we decided … Continue reading
Category Archives: Decluttering/Organising
{Real Living} Embracing a Minimalish Wardrobe
My friends and I used to joke that I have enough clothes to wear a different item every day, without ever having to repeat an outfit. While it’s true that that was (is) a joke, the reality is that I have far more clothes than I need. The reason for the glut of garments relates to … Continue reading
{Reggio Inspired} Creating a Provocation Space
For a long time I’ve been reading blogs and dreaming about the day that I’ll live in a huge house that is always clean, and my work is always all done, and I have children of my own to inspire. Before then, I’ve always thought, there’s no point trying to create provocations. My stepchildren are too … Continue reading
{Real Living} 2015: The Year of De-Clutter!
Late last year my husband volunteered our house for a New Year’s Eve party with our friends. Theoretically I was fine with the idea of hosting, but practically it was another story. Our house looked like a bomb site. And I’m not using hyperbole here, the house hadn’t had a proper clean in longer than … Continue reading
Weekend To-Do List – 29th March, 2014
Lately I’ve been struggling to find the energy to do anything around the house/garden. Ordinarily I don’t get a lot achieved during the week and everything gets left to the weekend, only for some reason lately that hasn’t really been working out. This weekend, however, I had nothing planned so I decided to write myself … Continue reading
Organising Cables
Nick and I moved into our house almost three years ago. It took me a year before I actually got everything unpacked and sorted. For some reason, in that haze of ‘organising’ I declared that we would keep all our household cables (you know, aerial points, chargers, ethernet cables, printer cables) in a tub together. … Continue reading
Organising the Pantry
According to the ants, when the weather gets hot the place to be is my kitchen pantry. I suppose I should really thank them for that because it wasn’t until I was pulling everything out of the pantry to try to remove the trail of ants that I really looked at it. It’s a fairly disorganised … Continue reading
{Rescue This} DIY Tablecloth
Way back wheno I said that I planned this year to do one post a month about a project that I had been planning to do for a while, but hadn’t gotten around to. I feel this project amply qualifies as I purchased the material to make it almost 2.5 years ago. At this time … Continue reading
Setting up a Budget
I’ve been toying with setting up a budget of some sort for quite a while now. Our house is mostly single income, with Nick working in an administration role for his family’s business. I work from home (when work comes in) as a lawyer, but it can be tricky trying to juggle this with life … Continue reading
Organising Recipes
For some reason, despite the fact that I own eleventy billion cookbooks, my first port of call for a new recipe is almost always online. When I do happen to find something that looks nifty I end up printing it out (or sometimes copying by hand, when we’re out of ink…which happens far more often … Continue reading
