Spring Clean Your Scrapbook Space

Have you seen the viral video featuring the woman who lives in a 90-square-foot studio in Manhattan? Sure, it’s located across from Lincoln Center and a block from Central Park, but the place is smaller than most suburban bedroom closets. Lucky for her, she’s a professional organizer and her dad’s a bankruptcy attorney, so she knows how to make do with few things, and the items she does have are perfectly placed throughout the tiny apartment. Her story got me thinking about spring cleaning my scrapbook space. Sadly, my little scrapbooking nook is about the same size as the woman’s … Continue reading

A Neat Idea For A Home-Based Business

There are some people out there who just have a knack for cleaning. Unfortunately, I am not one of them but I have figured how to keep my home looking mostly tidy most of the time. If you know how to clean well and you do not mind cleaning, you may be able to turn your skills into a home-based business. With more and more families leading busier and busier lives, sometimes people choose to take some tasks off of their plates by paying others to do them. If a family decides that they are going to hire someone for … Continue reading

Do You Really Need to Deep Clean?

Not your pores; your house. It seems everywhere I go these days someone or something is reminding me to deep clean my house in time for spring. For some reason, the season of new beginnings heralds the arrival of gratings reminders that it is time to get on my knees and scrub the dirty bathroom floors that I have neglected since Thanksgiving. Spring cleaning—BAH! HUMBUG! Sadly, there are quite a number of cleaning projects on my list. However, housekeeping is not only about removing dirt and grime from countertops and toilet seats. There are many other aspects to keeping a … Continue reading

Dad’s Losing It: Ice Cream Social

Happy Mother’s Day everyone! This morning, we drove a couple hours roundtrip to my parent’s house, to make my Mom (and Dad) a big breakfast to celebrate the special day. I cooked up homemade pancakes on the griddle and sausage with real Maple Syrup (Shady Maple Farm Thick-n-Rich – it is delicious!) and topped it off with fresh French pane au chocolates and muffins from the bakery near our home. Being a cooking equipment snob, I packed up half my kitchen for this trip! Before we three exited at 8am, I had a toasted bagel with peanut butter on one … Continue reading