Comments on: howdy do it

By: ellie

ellie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:24:11 +0000

thank you, anita! so happy to have that mystery solved.

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:23:06 +0000

going through your archives, I came upon this post. That image of the beautiful workspace (Flickr, unknown) is the workspace of Cinthia Warren, a Berkeley, CA artist who does a lot of work for Chez Panisse, et al.

I love love love love her work: http://www.cwarrendesign.com/

By: e03

e03 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:07:03 +0000

your work space looks kinda cute. worked in, but good. looks a bit like mine. anyway, i dont think this is embarrassing for you to show us :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:04:59 +0000

I totally can relate to piles of things! Whenever I do go through my piles, they just get reorganized into other piles and the cycle of endless paperwork continues… Thanks for letting me know I am not alone! And encouraging me to be more organized and less lazy. :)

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:22:30 +0000

FABulous post!! (…how come it sounds soooo familiar. ha ha! I need some organization – and this is the perfect motivation.)

By: the southern hostess

the southern hostess — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:44:40 +0000

I love you for doing this!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:15:13 +0000

I’m a piler too. Is there a recovery group for us!?! My solution…put something cute on top of the pile to make it look purposeful! Stack of bills, put a lovely vintage milkglass bottle on top & it’s instant home decor :)

By: Maya

Maya — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:03:44 +0000

Margot, my dear, so great that you and Ellie are doing this column! I hear you about the piles, mine are just as bad. For some reason tho, I’m much better at online organization, and one thing that’s cut down my paper piles is organizing all my finances via Mint.com (and how appropriate to be talking about it on Mint Design ;)). It’s a free onine money-management program and it’s amaaaazing. It really makes organizing money stuff 100 times easier.