Monday, January 28, 2013

BeGood Haul

BeGood Haul by molly-robles featuring cowgirl boots

Easily my favorite BeGood Purchase:  4Sight Adventurer Sunnies!

For every pair of sunglasses you buy, they give a new pair of
 corrective glasses to a person in need.


Uniqlo faux leather jacket
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I mostly decline to buy new leather because it feels like I'm funding a creature's demise.  


Uniqlo
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Its hard to tell in the picture, but they are jodhpur style knit pants.  A cozy au-courant alternative to leggings :)


Laredo cowgirl boots
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I heart my cowgirl boots so much <3 small="">


Vintage '90's cross-body Coach bag from ThriftTown in San Francisco.  What a score!



Aurelie Cowl Neck Top Dark Lavender
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Organic cotton deliciousness purchased at BeGood in SF.








Thursday, January 10, 2013

Organizing, Part 2: S.P.A.C.E.


This is my bare bones method for organizing of any sort.  It has transformed my hectic world into a fluid & fun experience!  The S.P.A.C.E. concept is something I learned from brilliant organizing guru Julie Morgenstern, author of Organizing from the Inside Out.  This system reduces each item in your world to its purpose in your life, creating vacuous space and facilitating fluid function. YAY!

First, thou shalt analyze the area to be made magnificent.  Refer to Organizing Part 1: Get Real with Your Needs.

Sort
Pull out everything in the chosen area and sort strictly according to how you use each item....K....

Purge
Recycle, throw out or archive or store anything that hasn't been used recently.........Mmmmkay...

Assign a Home
Group the keepers according to how you use them and assign them homes where you use them.  Use sticky notes.  Now you will know what, if any, storage container-y things you might need to get.  Make a list.  *I will list my favesie organizers for different areas of the home in a future bloggy thingy.

Contain
Get the containers you need, put your goodies in them. Put the goodies where they go. Label them if there is even the slightest doubt about the obviousness of what goes where. Labels on people: Not Good. Labels on people's stuff: Way Good. *teehee*

Equalize
Keep up on the putting of things in their places day by day. Your system is set to make
that easy, so stay committed. A space for everything and everything in its space! 

Live it, love it, DO IT!!!  It will make your life so fluid.  YAY!!!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Organizing Part 1: Get Real with your Needs



You have to get real with what your needs are before properly organizing any space, especially your personal clothing closet because it's such an extension of you. This is time to get out a sheet of paper and actually list or bubble graph (my fave) answers to each of the 4 questions that follow.

What works for you? What are the areas you know you got it going on, both in life and in the area you are organizing? What about this space makes you smile?


What doesn't work for you? What are you consistently misplacing? Is there any thing you never have a place for? Is there anything that you can't do because of the clutter? How do the disorganized spaces make you feel? If people visit,
do you sketch out about what they might see?


What is super crucial to you? What makes you? What moves you? What do you need to have ready to go at any given time?


Why are you doing this? Make a list or graph or collage or something like that of all the blessed lightness you will enjoy when your space is organized. Hang it in the space until the project is done (or keep it up if its pretty).
Now you will have real intention behind your organizing project & it will be fun & enlightening, & long term functional. YAY!!!!