Welcome back to the Live Simply blog, where we're bidding almost farewell to the month of May. Despite the fact that it feels partially like the past four weeks never even happened, so rapidly did they fly by, it was nonetheless a good month around here. I clamped container lids and swatted spiders in no less than four garages, battled massive stacks of paper clutter in a couple offices, and did some serious editing in ...

I have to give props to anyone who Lives Simply in a very small space. These people choose, at the end of the day, not to see limited square footage as a debilitation but a kind of blessing. Without excess space to accumulate unwanted and unneeded possessions, small space denizens--or smart ones--are also sans excess stuff. Yet there is still the undeniable fact that when it comes to small spaces, fitting in the pieces one ...

If I tried to introduce you to the concept of using curtains as a way to create concealed storage, you'd likely consider me condescending (she thinks I don't know how curtains work?) or just dumb (it seems doubtful she gets out much). So let me state for the record that I am not trying to introduce you to the concept of using curtains as a way to create concealed storage. I'm merely trying to open ...

In just a matter of weeks (days?), all the school children will come trucking home with the bounty of their academia: book reports, folders full of homework assignments, artwork, and the like. It will arrive in a paper grocery bag or will be dumped out of a ragged backpack and it will then be up to you, the parents, to take over as steward of said schoolwork. Perhaps in past years you weren't properly prepared ...

When I first started my business, I dreamed of the day when my schedule would be full of clients to serve. In a calendar of blank pages stretching into oblivion (or, you know, the following January), the entry of a client session was a victory. In a week, the single day with pencil marks was my crowning achievement and my motivation. It looked the way I so desperately wished every day would look: ripe with ...