Loookkkkkk! Squeeeeelllll!! I am throwing exclamation marks around like confetti because the dear old Housekeeper’s Carousel has rolled back in to town and I have got one hundred and one things to share with you, so rather than waste your time dilly-dallying shall we just dive right in? First up:Leonie’s workbooks have arrived! I rave about these workbooks every year because they are the VERY BEST way to really drill down and focus on what on what you want to get out of the year ahead. And this year the range has expanded from the life and biz books to include a wall planner and (oh joy!) a diary! As a member of the Shining biz and Life Academy I have received the e-book versions of both the life and the business goals books free and I can tell you that having been completely re-invented they are even more insanely useful than they were and last night I spent a happy hour or three printing them out and getting ready for a truly lovely, and oh so valuable life+biz planning day in December… [vimeo 144626369 w=500 h=281] I could go on and on about these workbooks, but for today I will just say that if you want to live a soul-centred life or run a heart-centred business then Leonie truly understands how to help you make plans and set goals for the best year of your life… just remember though OWNING the books isn’t enough: you have got to USE them in order to really inspire a difference. Next up: I loved this post (rant?) from James Altucher about why it is financial suicide to own a house. Now: your thoughts on the great Kindle and PDF Dilemma from last weekend. Thank you so much for your comments and emails, they are so very appreciated. I have decided that the way forward is to do as some of you suggested: to save the pretty for my interactive downloads, like the planners and to produce “READ” versions of my written works, so that they are legible… with (of course) a few pretty pictures thrown in! Though House Rules must be starting to seem like something of a myth to all of you, I will have my READ version out in a few days. Apologies for the delay. I always get there in the end, I just like to drive myself all around the houses with uncertainty first. Next: a book. In a year when we have all become rather obsessed with the very notion of Hygge, a book that tells the sweet story of a woman who goes to Denmark to discover why the Danes are often described as the happiest people in the world seem just the thing. I am downloading it as we speak, ready to enjoy with a cup of tea and good old-fashioned Danish butter cookie. A Few Scrumptious Links:Ten meals from a $3.00 haul? Mind-blowing.| Like spooky stories? Eight women share their own ghostly tales.| How Lean In Get’s It Wrong – one woman’s truth about career, marriage and parenthood.| I love the idea of a 100 Day Projectdon’t you?| The PERFECT veggie burger recipe?| [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEFdWL3p0lc?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0] Don’t forget: that there is still time to enter the hunt for the most inspiring home-maker. This m’dears is surely right up our street. Learn how to take part here… Love: Maira Kalman. Loved this peek at a week in her life and her attitude of gratitude. Also love:Skeem Mahogany Candles.| This BLESSED sign from Junk, Love & Co.| And Womankindmagazine.| And finally a poem: Because there is ALWAYS a poem. This one, a poem that so enchantingly captures the golden moments in the hours after the kids return home from school.
After School on Ordinary Days
After school on ordinary days we listened to The Shadow and The Lone Ranger as we gathered around the tabletop radio that was always kept on the china cabinet built into the wall in that tenement kitchen, a china cabinet that held no china, except thick and white and utilitarian, cups and saucers, poor people’s cups from the 5 & 10 cents store. My mother was always home from Ferraro’s Coat factory by the time we walked in the door after school on ordinary days, and she’d give us milk with Bosco in it and cookies she’d made that weekend. The three of us would crowd around the radio, listening to the voices that brought a wider world into our Paterson apartment. Later
we’d have supper at the kitchen table, the house loud with our arguments and laughter. After supper on ordinary days, our homework finished, we’d play monopoly or gin rummy, the kitchen warmed by the huge coal stove, the wind outside rattling the loose old windows, we inside, tucked in, warm and together, on ordinary days that we didn’t know until we looked back across a distance of forty years would glow and shimmer in memory’s flickering light.
By Maria Mazziotti Gillan.
Have a wonderful week Housekeepers…
[su_box title=”Source List” style=”noise” box_color=”#ff6699″]1. Grab Leonie Dawsons printed or virtual workbooks, planner and diaries right here. 2. Sign up to join The Shining Life and Biz Academy here and get going working through more inspirational resources than I can even begin to list. I cannot recommend this group highly enough. 3. Buy The Year of Living Danishly on Amazon.Com here and on Amazon.Co.uk here.[/su_box]
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Always a lovely list! Eeek! I have read Living Danishly (I was Danish last year, after a few years of being French) and really enjoyed it. I may well be really Danish; I like so much of how they live. And Leonie’s workbooks are really good… as long as you use them! I need to knuckle down and do some planning for next year before next year runs away with me!
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Always a lovely list! Eeek!
I have read Living Danishly (I was Danish last year, after a few years of being French) and really enjoyed it. I may well be really Danish; I like so much of how they live.
And Leonie’s workbooks are really good… as long as you use them! I need to knuckle down and do some planning for next year before next year runs away with me!
Ha ha Angel… I was Danish! I love that! what are you planning on being next year??x
I added the Shining Academy calendar and workbook to my Christmas list Hopefully, Santa will see fit to leave it under my tree.