organize your child's memorabilia

Organizing Your Child's Memorabilia

Back-to-School Tips, Part 4: Organizing Your Child's Memorabilia As a parent, it is your right and rite (of passage, that is) to chronicle every step of your child’s life: the certificate congratulating them on learning the freestyle in…
Organizing your child's artwork

How to Organize Your Child’s Artwork

  Back-to-School Tips, Part 3: How to Organize Your Child's Artwork It’s a young Jackson Pollock! A promising Picasso! A mini Miró! Oh, the heaps of praise and admiration we give our young artists while marveling at their latest masterpiece.…

Organizing School Papers

Back-to-School Tips, Part 2: Organizing School Papers Are all those school papers driving you crazy? It’s only one month into the school year and you may already be drowning in paper! A rite of passage for every parent is figuring out…
homework tip: create a homework station

Home Sweet Homework

Back-to-School Tips, Part 1: Creating a Homework Station School is back in session! And with that, comes homework and a wide range of emotions that surround that activity: the excitement for your child to reinforce what they are learning…
Organizing an Artist's Studio

Organizing an Artist’s Studio

Furniture arrangement can make a world of difference in the way you feel about a room. Does the room welcome you in and feel inviting? Is this a place where you’d like to stay for a while? If it’s a room that is a passing-through point…
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6 Easy Steps to Organize a Drawer

Do you love digging through a drawer to excavate the item you want? Who knows what treasures may await! If you’re an archaeologist, you may take special delight in this adventure . . . but I would venture to say that for most people, this…
packing tips for summer travel
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Organizing Your Summer Fun:
Packing It In

Happy first days of summer! Our summer break started a few days ago, and we’ve already kicked it into high gear with our annual 2-week jaunt to my home state of Texas. It’s an opportunity for my son to grasp his 8th generation Texan roots…
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3 Cool Products to Get You Organized

When it comes to making your life better, professional organizers know how to do it best. They alleviate stress from clutter, create calm in chaotic environments, find creative storage solutions and help maximize your productivity, among many…

An Organizing Tip to File Under "Make My Life Easier"

Have you ever wanted to get to that t-shirt that’s at the bottom of your drawer, and you have to dig down through several layers of other clothing to get to it? Or more frustrating: when your daughter (or son!) can’t seem to find THAT…
a new twist to organizing your cabinets

Spin Doctor: A New Twist to Organizing Your Cabinets

“You spin me right round, baby, right round, like a record, baby, right round round round…” Ever have a favorite song (OK, so it’s from the ‘80s and I’m dating myself) or a favorite thing that makes you want to sing and dance?…
clean to start to organizing the laundry room

A Clean Start to Organizing the Laundry Room

Do you have an area of your home that drives you crazy? One that is too cluttered, too unorganized or just too scary to attack? A room that you keep meaning to get to, but a) you never have the time, b) you can’t even begin to conceptualize…
how to maximize storage space in bathroom cabinets

Abracadabra! The Best Trick to Maximize Storage in Any Space

As an organizer, one of the challenges I most enjoy is how to maximize storage in any kind of space. Fortunately, I’ve been given many opportunities in my lifetime to face this challenge – from carving a corner out for myself in tiny dorm…