organization

  • I LOVE Cookshelf

    If you have a cookbook collection you feel you don’t get as much use out of as you should, SIGN UP FOR COOKSHELF. It has totally changed my life, no exaggeration. In April of this year, I started a project… Continue reading

    I LOVE Cookshelf
  • How I Organize My Life, Part 2

    Part 1 is here. Time to talk about materials. I used to buy a new planner every year, often trying out what my friends were buying/recommending. I know myself better now. In the past I’ve been so excited about “starting… Continue reading

  • How I Organize My Life, Part 1

    Organization is such a personal thing, I hesitated quite a bit before writing this. If you knew me in person, you’d probably think: she doesn’t have it together at all, what’s she doing giving organizing advice? Let’s get the confessions… Continue reading

  • Book Organization: Our Shelves

    I promised some people a while back that I’d do a post on how we organize our books. The truth is it’s a bit hard to do this since our shelves are constantly in flux, but this should give a… Continue reading

  • Marbled Mason Jars

    Sometimes I get crafty. Marbled mason jars for all the alternative flours and starches in the house. Amateurish splotches here and there. First try, I just dumped some red and some white into a jar and swirled it through. There… Continue reading

  • Breaking It Down, 2013-2014

    The other day I posted Yena’s curriculum for this coming schoolyear and how we planned it. Today I’m posting a screenshot of the lessonplans-on-spreadsheet that I do every year for the kids. In 2011 I did a very detailed planner… Continue reading

  • GTD For Kids

    The last few weeks I’ve been re-applying the lessons I learned from David Allen’s Getting Things Done. I have managed to whittle my piles quite a bit that I can now sit at my desk and not be so overwhelmed… Continue reading