I have a feeling that if we ever actually met Alison Cayne in person we would hate her. After all, she, of the New York cooking school Haven's kitchen, she, the mother of five children, she, the untrained, sole decorator of her West Village townhouse, would surely dredge up our all feelings of insecurity and insufficiency we thought we'd long ago reconciled. This woman is good at everything, we would marvel. But here, on the ...

January generally seems to linger for quite a while, but not this year. I feel like I went to sleep on Jan 1 and woke up to greet Jan 31, only I was woke for all of it. You feel me? Dutiful blogger that I am, though, I didn't want to let the month slip away without assembling some of my favorite things for your especial perusal. So, I present unto you, said things:   ...

Close to a year ago, I decided to bridge the gap between my in-person clients and those seeking to Live Simply located around the globe. Because I know what people are capable of accomplishing in their spaces and lives when given the proper tools and support, I sought a way to disperse the guidance and expertise I've honed through years of hands-on experience. I wanted to find a means of verbalizing the sentiments people most ...

*Happy Monday! Before we get into today's post, I want to remind you that the Live Simply Closet Edit Masterclass launches TOMORROW! Head on over here to sign up to be notified the moment registration officially opens. I can't wait to see how you'll use the masterclass to Live Simply... The really boring truth about me is that I dislike the notion of traveling. Few things sound less appealing to me than leaving the security of ...

Pretty Little Liars is a show that hordes of people (the majority of them belonging to the Tumblr generation, from what I gather) are utterly obsessed with. Shay Mitchell is PLL's star child. Meanwhile, Wayfair is an online marketplace, and Mat Sanders is the genius designer behind Consort Design, a firm which can seemingly do no wrong and often, ahem, consorts with celebrity clientele. How do all these disparate facts relate, and why is this information ...