A Warm Hug from Your Home

There’s nothing sweeter than a warm welcome home. That feeling of peace, belonging and safety you get from arriving home and knowing this is the place for you. Home. Does your home wrap loving arms around you and welcome you in? Does each room greet you with a comfortable ease? Does your space reflect the […]

I promised this year would be different

A year ago I was feeling stressed, guilty and exhausted. A year ago I was trying to “do it all” and to “be it all”. And in the end – when December 2012 came to a close – I looked around and realised that I had pushed myself into such a miserable corner. Was it […]

Life Lessons from a Music Box

I have a little wooden music box. Handcrafted in Germany, it was given to me by my German aunt. It’s a sweet thing, and it sat on my shelf, just out of reach, all through my childhood. Seeing it there reminded me that I was loved and thought of by people far away who I […]

Travelling Light

Last month my husband and I hit the road in this great big land of ours. We hitched up our camper trailer and took ourselves to the Outback and far reaches of Western Australia. We saw some truly beautiful and iconic parts of Australia – the Kimberley, Bungle Bungles, Karijini National Park, Ningaloo Reef and […]

The Book That Changed My Life

Once upon a time, I read a book and it had an impact. And then I took action on the things I learned in that book. The action changed my life. Some really good stuff happened. Then, in true fairytale fashion, I got to meet the author of the book, and I told her what […]

Happiness is Room to Dance

Happiness is…  a delicious home-cooked meal finding clean clothes to wear getting the kids to school on time welcoming unexpected visitors room to dance Did you notice that list does not include a tidy house, organised shoes or colour-coded containers? That’s because those things are just on the surface. Those things are the features of […]

Retrospective: Skipping Down the Road to Organised – Ruby Shoes Optional

“Introducing our Retrospective article for this week: Chosen from our Organising Space contributor, Angela Esnouf’s articles, we hope this sparkly piece from March 2, 2012 helps give you the kick of motivation you were searching for!” A Chinese proverb states, “To get through the hardest journey we need to take only one step at a time, but we […]

Learnings from a Courageous Friend

When I think of Courage, I always think of my friend – let’s call her Nicole to protect her anonymity. She is the most courageous woman I know, and an inspiration to me. Not because she jumps out of airplanes, although she has done that. Not because she’s faced illness head on and prevailed, although […]

It’s Just Stuff

It is often said in the Organising world… If you don’t use, need, or love something, it is clutter and doesn’t have a place in your home. I say that myself, in various forms, often. While I say it, I am sometimes reminded of the scene from the popular 1999 movie starring Heath Ledger – […]

One Step Towards Peace

We women are busy all year long, aren’t we? So why is it that we keep waiting for that magic moment when “things will quiet down” before taking some time out to enjoy a moment of Peace? I’ve written before about taking baby steps toward any goal, and this goal of finding peace is no […]

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