A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about Repurposed Wood Soda Crates. Today's post is in a similar vein. Or grain. Sometimes it feels like various storage and organizational trends are stalking me, popping up around every corner and on every screen until I finally succumb all, "Fine! Fine. I'll write a post about you, relentless sonofa--. " So, vintage letterpress drawer/typesetter tray/printer tray. Whatever the precise terminology you prefer, it turns out they reincarnate quite successfully ...

I'm 5' 2" on a good day (how much do you loathe that joke--isn't it the worst?) which essentially means that I spend my life trying to reach things I'm not tall enough to get to, standing on my tippy toes, climbing up on my kitchen counters to reach the glasses like I did circa year 7. But then my leg went on strike, preventing both the tip-toe approach and the un-ladylike counter-climbing. So I ...

A little while ago now, I was having a conversation with someone about our respective careers, professional and general life paths. In the space of that talk, my conversant asked me a simple question that struck me as particularly pertinent. "Do you feel like you're making progress?" When I answered in the affirmative she responded, "Well, that's all that counts then." I have continued to revisit that question in my mind ever since. Progress really ...

At various times on this here blog I like to highlight storage and organizational methods, among them The Nesting Effect and Organizing by Activity. Today's post joins the ranks of such ramblings, offering up for your consumption an approach to storage of the magnetic variety. The magnetic force should not be underestimated, neither between star crossed lovers (whatever that means) nor household products, alike. See, here, how it's useful in the bathroom, whether modest in scale (a magnetic ...