Want to shower your mama with love this Mother's Day? Treat her to Live Simply! Now until Friday, all organizing services (that includes both virtual organizing and local services in Seattle, WA) are 10% off their regular rate! Hooray! Whoopee! Mommy! [Virtual organizing sale prices will be reflected on the checkout page after you select "sign up!" on the services table. Local clients- mention this sale when scheduling to receive discount; gift certificates created upon ...

I'd like to take this opportunity to discuss broken stuff. Yes, those items that are laying around your house right this moment (!), laying there broken, waiting helplessly, stripped of all their dignity, just waiting for you to take pity on them-- take whatever measures are required to repair them or put them out of their misery once and for all. Here's how it goes: you have something. It breaks. It proceeds to sit on ...

When I stumbled upon Miss Martha's Homekeeping Room I just about had an aneurism out of pure, unbridled joy. It is organization perfection. Let's just worship it together, shall we? Here's the overall layout, which isn't going to knock your socks off really but just you wait. Now we'll take a closer look. Hold on to those Hanes, pumpkins. First up is the "cleaning station." It's a cohesive storage unit for all household cleaning paraphernalia. Up above, kept ...

For the past week and a half, I've been dealing with a stress fracture in my thigh/hip region, and it has been nothing short of excruciating--which, coming from someone with an impressively high pain threshold, is saying something. It's meant that I've spent hours in doctors offices, gotten X-rays, iced and medicated and repeated. It's inhibited my ability to function normally, to be as helpful as I can with clients, to grocery shop, to take a ...

A handful of inspiring images for my handful of (loyal) male followers... Ah, Saturday, you magnificence you. Image credits: Style At Home, S.R. Grambel, Nate Berkus, Branca Interior Design, Mark Ashby Design, Richard Ross Designs, Tommy Smythe