I recently shared a picture of a gift wrap organization station completed for a client on instagram, and afterwards received a couple of messages requesting more information. Consider this me, happily obliging. The truth is, I rawther wish I had thought to share the project here first, since a. I was completely impressed with the organizer I used, b. I know plenty of people have (hoard?) gift wrap that they can't ever manage to keep orderly ...

For years, I've been receiving emails from readers around the globe, lamenting that I didn't live nearer to them and wishing I could help them to Live Simply in their spaces. I am so utterly in love with the work that I do to help individuals in person, and I've also always known that my ultimate goal is to help as many people as I can possibly can, not just one per day. Well, today ...

A couple of years ago, selfie was selected as Oxford Dictionary's word of the year. Last November, they crowned the term post-truth as the one to reign supreme of 2016. Post-truth, meaning circumstances in which opinions and personal beliefs are more influential than facts. Or, in the words of Katherine Connor Martin, the head of United States dictionaries at Oxford University Press: "It’s saying that the truth is being regarded as mostly irrelevant." It seems to me ...

There are certain things in life that you just know aren't capable of living up to the hype they've received. Like video doorbells by Ring or the TV show Homeland. Halcyon House in Cabarita Beach, Australia isn't like that. Images via Halcyon House Despite its being plastered permanently across all the image-based social media platforms like instragram and Pinterest since its opening last year, Halcyon does not disappoint in real life. Speaking of, when I ...

Maybe in L.A. coat closets aren't a thing. Or Miami! Maybe in L.A. or Miami one so rarely dons a coat that the necessity of a closet devoted to storing said outer garments is utterly superfluous. But then, L.A. has to get chilly sometimes, right? And Miami; Miami has its fair share of wild thunderstorms. So I'd hazard to guess to even in those locales you need a couple of jackets to your name. And ...