Lots of people, and maybe you too, want to keep their closets smelling and feeling fresh and moth-free. So they trot out and buy themselves planks of cedar in various iterations--cedar block hangers, cedar hangers, cedar balls, cedar drawer dividers, cedar shoe inserts--it's really quite impressive how many ways they're figured out for you to incorporate cedar into your life. Speaking of: life. It happens, and time passes, and pretty soon your effervescent cedar is ...

Here they are: the six products I couldn't stop using, couldn't stop loving all throughout the month of May.   1. White Chalk Pen Wet Wipe Marker Me and chalk, and thus chalk and my clients, have been having a real moment this past month. It's because chalk labels are so damn charming is what! I long ago came to the conclusion that school chalk, though, is not the Live Simply labeling-appropriate option. I can't get ...

It's Memorial day here in the States, meaning that everyone is off having barbecues or remembering loved ones lost in service, or both, I guess. Meanwhile, my best friend got engaged last night and I got a new couch on Saturday, and for many of you reading today is just a normal Monday. Life proceeds as always, then: varied, exciting, ebbing and flowing and life-ing as it does. And so I offer you this somewhat ...

I guess I feel like being controversial this week. Maybe it's all the dust I've been breathing in lately that's bringing out my ornery side, I don't know. Like every other topic, organizing has been thoroughly condensed by publication after publication into bite-size concepts. Although most people know these rules by rote, many of them are, in my mind, ineffective, or, at least, over-simplified. So today I'm letting you in on three of the most ...

It's been rawther hot and heavy around here the past two days, and so when someone tweeted me a request for help finding non-ugly fans I thought it a winning idea. Even though fans aren't exactly typical Live Simply material, being cool/calm/collected definitely is. At least in Seattle, land of no AC, floor and table fans are a household staple in the warmer months. In fact, they're really much more like seasonal decor items than mere ...