I've been sharing my love of tea this year -- both for the caffeine as a busy, nursing mom and for the pleasure of snuggling up with a warm cuppa in a variety of flavors -- and several of you have asked how I organize my teas, so I thought I'd give you a peek…
I haven't talked about it too much here on the blog because I want to guard it as something I do for my girls and not as blog fodder, but one of my goals for 2014 is to celebrate the small holidays that I usually overlook. You see, I realized on New Year's Eve --…
The following post is from Jason & Jennifer Bruce of New Season Design: Our daughter outgrows clothes so quickly. It seems that each season we try on last year's size only to find that half of them don't fit any more. While I'm thankful that she's healthy and growing, I'm ending up with lots of…
The following guest post is from Kristin Sterk of Organizing Life with Less: Every night, do you battle the question with your kids: "Have you finished this?" knowing full well, they have not accomplished everything they have to before bedtime? Helping kids organize their time and teaching time management skills at a young age can…
We are all about the Legos these days, to the point that I think I could get rid of every other toy in our house and no one would notice! Between our fall birthdays and Christmas we may just have every Lego Friends set except Olivia's House, plus two big boxes of bricks. Which means…
Have you ever seen (or purchased) window markers? I picked up a set a few years ago, but they turned out to be one of those craft supplies that I horde. After all, they were on the expensive side and I didn't want them to get used up...even though I'd obviously bought them so that…
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Zubie for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. When Sean and I first got married, we had horrible car buying habits. Between leases and cars that cost entirely too much for our budget, we spent too much money and were always looking for the…
The following guest post is from Anne Simpson of Authentic Simplicity: Earlier this year, my husband and I moved into an apartment that was almost twice the size of our previous apartment. While we loved the spacious rooms in our new dwelling, we were more than a little stumped by the lack of storage. The…
The following guest post is from Mystie Winckler of Simply Convivial: Did you make a resolution to get more organized this school year? Do you feel like a failure already? I’ve cycled from organizing binges to circumstance-induced chaos, back to organizing purges and on again to self-discipline failures so many times myself that I'd really…
This sale has now ended! Over the years, I've used a variety of planners, but my favorites -- without fail -- are those from Invite.l. I used the Daily Planner faithfully for several years and my most recent favorite was the Magazine Editorial Notebook, but when the good people at Invite.l heard that I've been…