Entries by Ellen

Send One Suit and Make a Difference!

Join me in participating in this year’s Dress For Success Houston’s S.O.S. (Send One Suit) Drive.  The effort, formerly known as Clean Out Your Closet Week, provides interview suits, confidence boosts and career development to more than 45,000 women in over 75 cities each year.  Dress for Success is a not-for-profit organization that helps low-income women make tailored […]

E- Books that Make Organizing Happen

E-books are one of the many resources I use to help my clients move forward with organizing. These help my clients make decisions, find ways to make clutter disappear and help create baby steps in organizing. How to De-clutter and Make Money Now: Turn Clutter Into Cash with The One-Minute Organizer by Donna Smallin Donna […]

Organize to Revitalize Blog: Yours, Mine and Ours: Tips to Communicate with Your Blended Family and Stay Organized

Connecting, collaborating and consolidating with a blended family can be a challenge! Check out my guest blog post on Organize to Revitalize Yours, Mine, and Ours: Tips on How to Communicate With Your Blended Family and Stay Organized http://dallisonlee.com/blog/2013/02/05/yours-mine-and-ours-tips-on-how-to-communicate-with-your-blended-family-and-stay-organized/

Plentiful Powerful Productivity= Success

  Powerful productivity come when we create an environment that works with our strengths.  Improve your effectiveness and efficiency with these tips. Your planner is the visual guide to your productivity.  Use it like a map, writing in what your destination is for your day, your week and longer.  When you write tasks and projects […]

Double Up

  What makes you spring into action? For me, I will be assured of starting and finishing a project when I double up. I link two activities back to back that I love.  (Or at least love one of them!) I will file when I watch foodtv. I will support a cause when I add in […]

Less IS more!

Over and over we hear this phrase.  What does it really mean? Less mail is less overwhelming. Take 5 minutes every day to recycle and review your mail. Keep what remains in your command center to work on during admin time. Less to do means you are doing what you love. Our biggest burdens are […]

Find great ideas on Houzz.com

It is always important to have a vision when you are organizing. It might be you are looking for a space that is decluttered or a space that is brimming with organizing products.  Take a look on Houzz.com and see what you find! You can find my professional profile at http://www.houzz.com/pro/edelap.

Get Organizing Month IKEA Event on January 19

YOU ARE INVITED! Free Workshops at IKEA Houston offer Organization Tips for New Year Reduce clutter with the help of National Association of Professional Organizers   January is officially “Get Organized Month!” To celebrate, IKEA Houston is partnering with National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) and Houston-area vendors to host free organization workshops and offer […]

Organizing Tools: Plastic Storage

  All too often I find that people view organizing as “I just need more bins!”  Sorry to say, this is not the real solution! However, great bins do make a great tool for organizing. Use clear plastic, consistent size bins for your organizing.  Consistent sizes are shoebox size, medium size, and 66 quart size. […]