January 2011 Archives

I always make way too much food when I have the family over (especially the sweets) and they are always delighted to take some home with them. 

It's an natural deodorizer and for centuries good housekeepers knew that if some was kept by wool items it would keep the moths away from them.

There is much less damage done to wool now a days because we wear less wool and we now know that it must be stored away laundered as it is the stains on wool clothes that attracts the moths. But still we love the smell of cedar and use it in our closets. Buy it from a specialty shop and it can be pricey... but there is a better way to get your cedar for your closet.

We seem always to be on the look out for stylish little storage boxes that will help us organize our lives. 

In professional kitchens no scrap goes unused, their bottom line depends on it and they will make little novelty weave cookies from these scraps. 

Incredibly easy to do they have a simple elegance to them that belies their origins as left overs. Add a sprinkling of icing sugar and it looks like a master piece.

It's not the amount of clothes that I covet, it's how everything is so amazingly organized!

Organizers can be extraordinarily expensive especially if you have them custom made and while I love the idea of being uber organized I am not willing to pay oodles of money for it.

I designed this organized to be made out of 4 sheets of Bristol board costing $2 plus tax. It does take a little bit of time to make but I think the effort is worth it. With the basics of how it's made you can customize one to fit your own space.