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Home & Family
Blog posts and book extracts for creatives balancing home and family demands.
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The Law of Least Effort: Easy is good.
A short story from my kitchen garden to inspire you to remember the Law of Least Effort, and how making it easy can be highly productive.
Getting creative with domestic chores
For creatives with homes to keep; here are some ways you can get creative with domestic chores and access your genius mind amid the mundane housework >
5 ways your home can nurture creativity
Did you know that your home can nurture creativity? Here are 5 ways you can harness the power of your home to become a creative support system >
Oh, to be happy at home…
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGNBook Extract from Housework Blues“To be happy at home is the result of all ambition.” Samuel JohnsonThe benefits of being happy at home (Extract from Housework Blues - A Survival Guide) Throughout this book, I've tried to convince you of...
Creative decluttering for wooing windfalls
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGNA 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...
Domestic Goddess In Training – Apron
Cotton twill apron with pockets
Available to buy on cafepress.com
Have a Scarlett O’Hara Moment: Think about it tomorrow…
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGNA quick tip to reduce worry and overwhelm from one of literature's greatest heroines... I'll think about it tomorrow...Flashback to 2010... This post is inspired by an idea from my early blogging days - when my focus was...
Getting creative with life’s dramas
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGN 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 As you may know, I am obsessed with the creative process - how...
The Creative Power of Whim and Fancy
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.
CREATIVITY & WELLNESSIt'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,...
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?
Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Book Review)
A short review of Cut Your Clutter by Karen Kingston + how these inspiring feng shui tips and insights motivated one undomestic goddess to get moving mopwards >
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...
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...
