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Weekly Home Management, all at a glance

by Tsh

To use my Daily Docket, I refer to my Weekly Checklist. It provides me with a master plan of what I usually need to get done in a typical week. Photo by Buddy Stone Here’s a thumbnail of my list (click to enlarge it): I know it seems a bit intense, but it really works [...]

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My Daily Docket is My Daily Lifesaver

by Tsh

My Daily Docket is a personalized form I made to help me manage my day at home. It’s my most often-used form in my home management notebook, and it really works for me. There’s a lot of info on the internet about scheduling your day as a stay-at-home mom, and I’ve tried to apply a [...]

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4 Simple Ideas to Help you Clean a Messy House

by Tsh

Our house is a disaster. There, I said it. We had company for almost a month, and my mother-in-law was such a help to me, I hardly did anything. Now I’m paying the price. I most definitely prefer a regular habit of basic upkeep so that the home doesn’t get to the point of unrecognition [...]

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Today’s Most Important Tasks

by Tsh

Mamas are busy. And by default, we’re multi-taskers. There’s no other way we can do a load of laundry and pay bills and buy groceries and make dinner and spend quality time with our kids. But I’d say the number one enemy of productivity in a mom’s life – especially when she has very small [...]

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My Brain – aka, my Home Management Notebook

by Tsh

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris This is my favorite mantra for home management. I’m sort-of a minimalist by default, but it’s still not easy to keep a well-organized, efficient, peaceful home when you’ve got three-foot mess makers running around. Or [...]

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Another Non-Scrapbook Project with Scrapbook Paper

by Tsh

I guess all this scrapbook paper my mother-in-law brought with her has gotten me inspired again. Here’s my latest art project: The colors are more muted in real life. The orange isn’t so orange, and the robin’s egg blue and chocolate brown really complement our room’s colors. Oh, and the splotches aren’t accidental – that’s [...]

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Funkifying Cans into Colorful Pots

by Tsh

Problem: Terracotta flower pots are expensive in this country, and I’m not big on the plastic kind. I can recycle cans, but then they’ll look ugly. Solution: Scrapbook paper and Modge Podge! Here’s a step-by-step tutorial for what I made today… the beginnings of our burgeoning urban balcony container garden. Step 1 – Empty the [...]

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