The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life by Kathi Lipp

  The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life

 by 

Kathi Lipp 

 

When it comes to your home, peace is possible...

Longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

Let author Kathi Lipp (who once lived a life buried in clutter) walk you through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process of dedicate, decide, declutter and “do-your-thing” to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

If you’re also feeling overwhelmed by the care and upkeep of all the stuff under your feet or sense that your home is running you, instead of the other way around, come discover how to create a space that doesn’t have to be showroom perfect to be perfect for you and the people you love.


I mean, deep at heart we all know exactly what we have to do to get rid of all this stuff that is cluttering our home. Of course, I've already read several books about it as well and tried to get rid of everything but somehow....well.

This book doesn't have any big groundbreaking ideas either but somehow when I finally gave up procrastinating and started reading and doing something, I got into the right mood and it worked. I still have a lot of decluttering ahead of me but I like the author's approach to it, the concrete checklists of d's and I also like her definition of clutter. There's no number or amount of something given, there's no minimalistic approach, it's always just about the questions whether you really like an object, need it and use it. Basically.

I love books for example and I need long shelves of books to feel at home somewhere, so I wouldn't take kindly to the suggestion to get rid of them and keep but...<insert any number>. It doesn't make me a failure when it comes to decluttering if I still keep most of them as long as I make sure that these are books that still represent me. This is an approach that feels right and something I can work with.

It's always difficult to get rid of the clutter but step by step, one room after the other, I work my way through it. This book doesn't invent decluttering, it doesn't do it for me but it definitely helps with the process of deciding what to keep and how to proceed. 

★★★★

 

Crochet Animal Rugs: Over 20 Crochet Patterns for Fun Floor Mats and Matching Accessories by Ira Rott

      

  

Crochet Animal Rugs by Ira Rott

Blurb: 

Crochet decor your kids 
will be begging for! Bring their bedroom decor to life with this 
collection of seven sensational animal rug designs, by popular crochet 
designer Ira Rott. You will love making these unique and quirky designs 
that kids will simply adore. Choose from an amazing elephant, a sweet 
giraffe, a cuddly cat, a cheeky monkey, a sneaky crab, a friendly 
dinosaur and a snuggly bear, each with a coordinating pillow and 
accessory to crochet to continue the theme. With accessories ranging 
from security blankets to stool covers, bed book tidies, placemats and 
toy bags, this collection features over 20 animal-themed designs to 
crochet.
  

This book was a wonderful surprise! My daughter is the one who loves to 
crochet and right after having read the book, she asked me to go online 
and look up the author. Turns out that the author has a website where I 
found the next patterns to fall in love with.... 

This book has quite a number of patters for really cute and loveable looking rugs and 
pillows and bags and...other things inside. The explanations and 
instructions are well done and easy to follow. 
Apart from the patterns themselves, there are also very helpful general explanations 
and instructions on how to crochet and different sewing and crochet 
techniques involved. 

All those projects are really cute and will brighten a child's room and I am very positive 

that the kids will love them as much as I do. Those rugs and the pillows and other things that go 
along with them are sweet and charming and also not too difficult to make.
      

 ★★★★★