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Home & Family
Blog posts and book extracts for creatives balancing home and family demands.
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Creative decluttering for wooing windfalls
A fun and potentially lucrative tip to support your creative adventures... • • • What’s the biggest obstacle between you and the creative life you dream of? For many of my clients and readers, lack of resources is the one thing they claim is preventing them from...
Domestic Goddess In Training – Apron
Cotton twill apron with pockets
Available to buy on cafepress.com
Have a Scarlett O’Hara Moment: Think about that problem tomorrow…
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGN I'll think about that tomorrow... Flashback to 2010... Today's post is inspired by an idea from my early blogging days - when my focus was how to stay serene (or at least sane) if you were an undomestic goddess with a...
Getting creative with life’s dramas
Today I have a little story for you - how I got creative and turned a frustrating mini-drama into a very happy ending... Creativity: a tool for life Now, as you may know, I am obsessed with the creative process - how to find the time,...
The Power of Whim and Fancy : Creativity Lessons from Life
How to harness the creative power of whim and fancy – because there’s less need for discipline and will power when you feel naturally inspired to do a task.
It’s only Christmas.
It's Christmas. Again. Do you remember when you were little, and it used to feel like an absolute age before Christmas came round again? Now, though, the years tend to fly by a little quicker. Christmas seems to reappear ever faster. But then, it is a yearly event...
Book extract: Dust, vacuum…. create?
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. " ~ Virginia Woolf The results of housework are all too fleeting. You spend your time performing boring tasks and before long, they need doing again. There’s not much scope...
Up. The antidote to down.
RePost from my first blog: Make Peace with Housework - for any creatives with a house to keep... • • • With apologies to Shakespeare: Housework is neither good nor bad, but feeling makes it so. When housework blues are a problem, the source of our angst is not the...
When procrastination is good
Taking a long-term view helps us to see that sometimes procrastination is good and it can make sense to designate to the (quieter) future years?
Easy is good.
Or Life Lessons From My Garden. After a few weeks of admiring the fruitful bounty of my plum tree, I decided that today was harvest time. (Much to the dismay of the slugs who have been gorging themselves silly with the dropping fruit...). So, armed with my...
Life & Death, Love & Loss; Lessons from a friend.
LIFE BY DESIGN "You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone." ~ Joni Mitchell Warning: This post may seem a little over-emotional. Unless you have ever loved and lost a pet. My cat, Mojo, died this week. My quirky, handsome, wonky-eared, wild-whiskered, crazy and...
Have you ever thought about modeling…?
As an eternal Life Troubleshooter, I am on a constant mission to improve things. So I like to learn from people who have mastered whatever I am trying to achieve. I regularly consult experts in subjects ranging from health, business, relationships and, of course, the...
Success is messy
How to enjoy more success on the home front if you’re an Undomestic Creative. (Like me.)
(Domestic) Life Lessons from Downton Abbey
Sadly, we once again have to come to terms with the end of another stunning series of the fabulous Downton Abbey. (Did anyone expect what happened to Sybil?) So, as we eagerly await the Christmas special, I thought I'd share the gems of domestic wisdom...
Oh, to be happy at home…
"To be happy at home is the result of all ambition." Samuel Johnson (Extract from Housework Blues - A Survival Guide) [pinit] Throughout this book, I've tried to convince you of the many valid and compelling reasons...
The dark side of kindness
Kindness, charity, generosity - all virtues. All good things to aim for, in a bid to be a valuable and worthy (and likeable) member of the human race. But is it possible to overdo it? Can we give too much? However much we may resist it, the female of the species is...
Housework? Give me strength.
I recently took the Strengthsfinder test. (I'm planning a little reinvention.... watch this space!) I don't know if you've heard of Strengthsfinder but if you're at all interested in discovering why you are the way you are and why you do the things you do, I highly...
Celebrate: A habit for life…not just for Christmas.
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGN • • • Tis the season, once again. Christmas. Whether you celebrate the religious feast, or the culinary feast - or both (like me) - this time of year is dedicated to all things merry and bright. It's a time for focussing on the...
Lessons from Mothers Day
RePost from my first blog: Make Peace with Housework - for any creatives with a house to keep... • • • This year for Mother's Day I was presented with some spa vouchers.Now you may think that I have extremely thoughtful children (with a generous father). And you would...
The MPWH Top Ten Twenty-Ten Tip Top Top Tips
RePost from my first blog: Make Peace with Housework - for any creatives with a house to keep... • • • Happy New Year! I know I am fashionably late but I have spent the last few weeks busily converting this entire blog into an ebook format, for your reading pleasure....
