It's not about you, it's about them. My clients are constantly relaying anecdotes to me about how their friends or family react to the news of our work. They tell me how they mentioned to a best friend that they got rid of all their elementary school yearbooks, and said friend was utterly aghast. Or how their mom was totally appalled to hear he or she had decided not to save any of their kids' ...

Welcome to Thursday on Live Simply. Today, a space that stopped me in my tracks and caused me to proclaim, "Well, that's utterly charming, isn't it?" The 3-story mews house was designed Fossey Arora and is currently being sold by Domus Nova, should anyone care to purchase post-post. Let's begin in the kitchen, shall we? Painted a stupidly spot-on shade of minty blue, it's a little bit throw-back, a little bit right on trend. Just opposite that glorious ...

There is one particular habit that every one of my clients confesses to doing prior to hiring me, and it goes something like this: In a moment of overwhelm at the state of their space, they jump in their car, head to their nearest home goods store and buy another big plastic bin. I say "another" because you can bet that before this time there was the time before and the time before that and ...

It's definitely starting to be that time of year... the time when all the clients start thinking about all the gifts and thusly all the gift wrap. And when they do (mouse-to-cookie style), they start to think about how the current state of their gift wrapping supplies storage is fairly miserable, and how pleasant it would be to change that. And then I, Annie, spend lots of hours winding back up unruly rolls of ribbon ...

If you're interested, I'll tell you: you have been given a gift--a superpower that's so fundamental to your being that you probably take little notice of the fact that it even exists. It lies latent inside you, capable of being activated in any instant. You, fair being of the human-kind, can, whenever you wish, change your mind. Do not roll your eyes, nor scroll to see if I'll say anything remotely interesting in the following ...