How to Organize a Playroom: Part One

Kelly and I had the bright idea to bring more traffic to our website by making video tutorials. Holy moly what a difficult task. Still I did manage a tidy and reorganize of the playroom and it's looking pretty good if I must say so myself. The worst part was having to do the physical organizing which took me a lot longer than I had hoped. The other difficult thing was putting on full make up and swallowing my pride and sucking in my stomach after a particularly festive holiday season. Good news is I've got some solid pointers on the best way to organize a playroom for all personality types.

1. Break it down into steps.

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Happy New Year!

We hope you had a marvelous holiday season and a festive New Year's Eve and that 2015 brings you peace, joy, and love. We're psyched for our new website as we've seen the new design and it is good. Have a wonderful weekend and we'll be back with more pixie fun and tips next Friday.

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What Kind of Gift List Do You Have?

I love that I am one of the most disorganized people in my family, and probably the most disorganized professional home organizer you know, and yet without a master holiday gift list I would not be able to enjoy the holidays to the fullest. My list isn't about what I want from Santa, it's the list of everything I'm getting or want to get for the people I'm exchanging gifts with. My list making mother was mightily impressed and so I thought this might be the time to share it as it's a handy Excel document that I've used for ten years.

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I'm Grateful for My iPad

I know. Thanksgiving is a week away and I should be grateful for all those easy standbys — my children, my parents, my health, etc. And I am, I swear I am. In fact just last week a young father in the neighborhood died suddenly of a heart attack, leaving his wife and three children behind and suddenly I had absolutely no problems at all and a ridiculously long list to be grateful for. 

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Like with Like & National Geographic Decor

I know that "Like with Like" is a no-duh organization 101 kind of thing, but I cannot tell you how many times we've come into somebody's home and found beautiful things cluttering up the space making it look like a mess when all we need to do is move a few things around and voila!: organization, beauty and original decor. Better yet for all the Organics (NFs), Classic Freedoms (SFJs) and Fun Freedoms (SFPs) — you don't have to throw anything out.

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