Marcia Francois's Blog, page 95

39 candles and alternative birthday presents

Well friends, today I turn 39! I strangely have no issues with getting older maybe because I’ve been going grey since I was 25 but mostly because the alternative is terrible! I’m working today because two other team members are on leave… and I didn’t get myself into gear soon enough. Very unusual for me […]

The big switcheroo

Last Sunday I had the idea to move the babies (my four-year-old twins ) into the study and for the study contents to move into their bedroom. I technically should have done this when I was pregnant 4.5 years ago but during my pregnancy I was super tired all the time, except for the very […]

Just before I set a new birthday list…

Can I tell you what’s really working well for me these days? My goals list. I set my annual goals, some of which are work in progress throughout the year and then the others are once-off goals. At the end of March I gave you an update and since my birthday’s in a week’s time, [...]

Teaching kids to declutter

the kids made these cute mobiles for “sea creatures” week at pre-schoool – don’t they look cute in the bathroom? I think it’s very important to instill life skills in my kids so I’ve been teaching them organising skills for over 3 years now. they’ve been packing away their toys since they were about 9 [...]

You ask, I’ll answer

I realised I haven’t done one of these posts for a long time, so… what is your burning organising or time management question? Leave a comment, ask your question about anything organising and, as well as getting your question answered, I’ll also pick three people to get a special something. And… go! For the rest [...]

Your business doesn’t have to remain bottlenecked…

Let’s face it… at some point, even the most brilliant business women among us wind up becoming the bottlenecks in their own businesses. They discover they’re not able to grow their business to the extent or as quickly as they’d like because they’re tapped out of time, energy and sanity. Or they know they could [...]

{Marcia gets crafty} Gift tags

I had some bits of cardboard left over and while I normally don’t like to keep things lying around “just in case”, this time I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I stamped out little gift tags with my tag punch and kept them until I had a spare 30 minutes to finish them [...]

Tackling your life admin

I had a nice photo organising post ready to go and then when I was checking through it, I realised that my kids’ school’s is named in some of the photos. So that will have to move to next week as I upload and fancy up new photos. In the meantime, let’s talk about life [...]

Do you think some people are lucky?

Hi Exactly a year ago I jumped on a plane bound for New York City, caught a connecting flight to Charlotte and attended the She Speaks conference. The conference had been a goal for about 18 months and NYC has always been on my life list. Those were dreams of mine but I turned them [...]

Decluttering toys… for sentimental organisers

I probably like wooden toys more than the kids do. So it’s quite hard for me to let go because I remember them playing with these. However, I have found many times before (just search sentimental organising on the blog) that it’s easier to let go if you have a photo. So that’s what I [...]