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Buried in Treasures Support Group
Just announcing that I will be starting a virtual Buried in Treasures support group in January 2024. Please email me at lauren@casualuncluttering.com or call me at 425-947-3976 for details. • Does your stuff overwhelm you? • Is it kinda easy to bring it into your spaces, and kinda hard to let it go? • Do…
Read MoreRead the Lines
The alarm flashed across my phone from one of those news consolidation sites that you sign up for without even knowing. “300% increase in hoarding!!!” That caught my attention. So I tried to read the lines. I used to be a professional researcher, I can find ANYTHING. There is no documented 300% rise in hoarding…
Read MorePlayful Creative Summit – wretched news
Playful Creative Summits will be no more, fabulous though they were. David Chislett and Alyea Sandovar, the mad genius innovators and motivators behind the Summits, had to admit their efforts were exhilarating, electrifying and exhausting. I will miss the magic: woefully, I didn’t manage to transcribe all the presentations. I passionately believe I gleaned all…
Read MoreApologies. Life.
Apologies. Life. I haven’t posted since June 15. Illness off-and-on. The weather. A family member who’s needed support. Some super-special, super-tiring clients. Being part of the team which converted my National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals chapter from a Seattle-based agency to a WA-state-focused body, which we formally celebrated on May 1 (YAY!!!!!). …
Read MoreKid Stuff – Updated YAY!!!! Two More Books since 3/15/2023
I’ve been working more often with children again, something I’ve done with great delight since early in my career. It often comes about that I work with children in the course of partnering with the parents: first the parents, then the youngster(s). My youngest one-on-one client ever was five. My record number of children on-site…
Read MoreOnly took several years…
Only took several years, a holiday and the embarrassment of a house guest. Argh.
Read MoreSometimes, it AIN’T you
Sometimes, it ain’t you. Sometimes, the instructions come in Arabic. It sounds silly. But it’s true – sometimes, even all of the time, you’re tired, not lazy – it takes you three tries before you realize the instructions are in Arabic. Sometimes, even all of the time, you’re not stupid – the instructions came…
Read MoreDave Pelham – The Step-by-Step Route to Creative Photography – Playful Creative Summit 2020
I own a camera. An intimidating camera. Lots of buttons. None of the buttons are permanently dedicated to one function. It’s a camera designed for an octopus who might want to grip the machine in different ways at different times and then the creature’d need redundant or reprogrammed buttons all over the place. I’m quite…
Read MoreTrickster Mindset: Designing a Playful Life and Business – Alyea Sandovar – Playful Creative Summit 2020
“Trickster Mindset: Designing a Playful Life and Business” – Alyea Sandovar – Playful Creative Summit 2020. Sandovar interviews David Chislett during the Summits; Chislett interviews Sandovar. Sandovar believes, fervently, that intuition sustains creativity. But intuition isn’t entirely spontaneous and creativity can be mindfully cultivated. She has a morning ritual to tap into both: she exercises,…
Read MoreKid Stuff
I’ve been working more often with children again, something I’ve done with great delight since early in my career. It often comes about that I work with children in the course of partnering with the parents: first the parents, then the youngster(s). My youngest one-on-one client ever was five. My record number of children on-site…
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