This week I'm sharing a recent client project--the overhaul of a 100 year old closet (catch up on the backstory in yesterday's post if you missed it). In order that I not dump on you a post the length of so many elephants, detailing the entirety of the closet's transformation, I'm going to give it to you in nugget form. Today's tid bit: hats and shoes. Accessories are a girl's friend, and to my client, they're ...

Hollaaa. Prepare your eyeballs and your hearts, because this week I'm bringing you a peek into some authentic Live Simply action. The backstory is like this: My client is a bit of a fashionista who adores getting glammed and getting mammed, and that latter adjective is meant as less breasty/medical examination than it is feminine, dressed up, adorned with flair. You know, the way ladies like to do. She's also a shop owner/ business woman and ...

Tis the season for gift guides, and publications, bloggers, and practically anyone else with the means to put together a product collage in some format are putting them forth. Since I began blogging, I've debated putting together Live Simply holiday gift guides. And then each year I've just let the opportunity slide right by, eventually telling myself that it was too late now anyway, Annie; all of the shoppers have already been guided to buy ...

Amory Brown, (not to be confused with Molton Brown, the cosmetics line oft featured in hotels, (not to be confused with Alton Brown the token odd-ball cooking scientist of the Food Network when last I tuned in seven years ago)), is an interior design firm based out of London and today they are here to quell any lingering case of the turkey-tummy (of which I actually have no knowledge, but, fine print). And if you keep ...

1. I have so much. 2. I will happily use the occasion of this day to focus my attention on the many things I have to be thankful for. 3. I will choose to see this day not as artificial or contrived, but as an opportunity to express and consider what I ought to be on a daily basis. 4. I will feel thankful for the authentic reminder of the necessity to pause and give ...