Oh hey guys, it turns out it's Thursday on Live Simply, and you know what that means: time to ask ourselves the hard hitting question, "Are we all in danger of brutally stabbing ourselves every time we remove an avocado pit? (Or is that just me?)" Also, it's Peridot Decorative Homewear's turn in the Spotlight. Peridot is design shop in Vancouver, meaning that if, I suppose, you frequented their establishment, you would find your eyes met ...

In today's edition of ideas that aren't mine which came not at all from my own brain, a real thunker of a great plan stolen from the pages of the latest Style At Home Magazine. See the thing about this idea is that you're staring at it in the picture above but I bet you don't even realize you are. Or at least, I certainly didn't despite studying the images carefully before deciding the space ...

It has most certainly reached that time of year when parents can, in good conscious, ban their children from being indoors for whole hours at a time. Anyhow, that's how it went down when I was growing up and cell phones were still called "car phones" because if you went into the grocery store you weren't going to carry them in with you, were you? I don't care how the tide has turned, I still ...

I had some time to myself this weekend for what felt like the first time in a long time, and, if I'm honest, despite how much I love all my people, I sort of basked in it. There is a certain contentment in being alone without being lonely, a fact I was reminded of as I sat around in the quiet of my house, nonchalantly enjoying the sounds coming in from the open windows and ...

This post might have been entirely of a different nature, only I had to perform a bag-ervention at my friend's house last night and now bags are the only thing on the brain. It wasn't just my friend that has (had) an inordinate amount of bags on hand (what she has (had) in bags she more than makes up for in: business, smarts, personality, looks, etc. etc.), but all households. I have yet to visit ...