Let's Get Organized!

<br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvVWhH_q7N0SOS6VYDswpkpRPpyjdjR5X4Zw5VnzV0ws3oythE1as_bf7z_7Tkd9o1s9GwQ79pxmv9sIO5sLboMnALlalwwKW-EOvQmwXEQ2_t_tYdYvE9iUlCF0_YSKLRFfOXUTyqJbM/s640/blogger-image--1284565018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvVWhH_q7N0SOS6VYDswpkpRPpyjdjR5X4Zw5VnzV0ws3oythE1as_bf7z_7Tkd9o1s9GwQ79pxmv9sIO5sLboMnALlalwwKW-EOvQmwXEQ2_t_tYdYvE9iUlCF0_YSKLRFfOXUTyqJbM/s640/blogger-image--1284565018.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><i>Ilyanla Organize My Life!</i><br><br>I'm pretty sure I'm getting Oprah people mixed up there. <br><br>See that cute little <a href="http://riflepaperco.com/">Rifle Paper Co</a> notebook?  Well, inside is the stuff of pure evil.  A list.  Of things.  I NEEED TO ORGANIZE!  Argh!<br><br>I'm admittedly not very organized.  It drives me crazy and drives everyone around me crazy.  I wasn't always this way, but something about having kids has made me put things like "having real places for things" on the back burner.  In fact, if you peak over the mug o' le pens in the picture above you see a nice little bin full of stuff that needs a place.  Soo I'm going to try to tackle some projects and not have a melt down.  Any advice?  I just tried typing "organizing" into Pinterest and now I need a glass of wine <strike>and a xanax</strike>. <br><br>Also, can we talk about some of the ridiculous "organization tips" on Pinterest.  <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/255579347577951427/">Hang a rake upside down to organize your necklaces!!!</a>  Hahahahahahahahaha. klasdjfh.a kwgrapw, GILIEFGJ <br><br>Ok, so this is not so much a post from which you can derive any sort of inspiration.  It's more a cry for help <i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Help me, Oprah!</span></i><br><br><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I plan on starting with the spot that drives me the most insane (the kitchen hutch) and working from there.  </span></span><br><br><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'll keep you updated.   </span></span><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><b>Update: The hutch is clean! One item crossed off my list. It's a start. </b></font></div><div><font size="2"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="2"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAisanAitzKGg4PLMDtlGNlbvXyDQO197853tEsieDuOPJfL0U9w1BehwO0w2NRX60oGNIgszwoct122ky22dM0sJw-T1xHiAHBoFl7gqLWTBuhrbPVa4BYIPHPFQjjE2nma3dV-6X_wU/s640/blogger-image-460252810.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAisanAitzKGg4PLMDtlGNlbvXyDQO197853tEsieDuOPJfL0U9w1BehwO0w2NRX60oGNIgszwoct122ky22dM0sJw-T1xHiAHBoFl7gqLWTBuhrbPVa4BYIPHPFQjjE2nma3dV-6X_wU/s640/blogger-image-460252810.jpg"></a></div><br></b></font><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>

Let's Get Organized!

Ilyanla Organize My Life! I'm pretty sure I'm getting Oprah people mixed up there.  See that cute little Rifle Paper Co notebook?  ...

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Have a Lovely Thanksgiving!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9azpHxSiXCrg06sXsKrIpvfVaCHji8KpXicl5kDPUgcutSW7Xqr9DDNxxdeCh10GWlgI_sx5-RtLToG9Ujgz_sfeFVvu11HTAFrnOm8lya1oPp1FxR8BpAu0O9QvXK4eusSFyp_qXS98/s1600/Thanksgiving+The+Suze+2011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9azpHxSiXCrg06sXsKrIpvfVaCHji8KpXicl5kDPUgcutSW7Xqr9DDNxxdeCh10GWlgI_sx5-RtLToG9Ujgz_sfeFVvu11HTAFrnOm8lya1oPp1FxR8BpAu0O9QvXK4eusSFyp_qXS98/s1600/Thanksgiving+The+Suze+2011.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://belclairehouse.blogspot.com/2011/11/its-christmastime-but-first.html">Last year's Thanksgiving table from The Suze's house</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />How excited are we to stuff our faces with turkey?  I love Thanksgiving.  I love to eat and be thankful.  I know, it sounds silly to say I love to be thankful, but I've found, as I get older, that it's the secret to my happiness.  When I'm thankful and appreciative, I'm happy.  It's actually very simple, but not always so easy.  I've found the age old adage, "you better check yo'self before you wreck yo'self" by the philosopher/rapper Ice Cube always helps bring me back to a place of gratitude.  I'm not even joking.  I really repeat that rap line when I feel myself getting a little bratty,<strike> which is never</strike>. <br /><br />This has been a year filled with blessings, too many to count, so being grateful has been fairly easy.  But at the end of the day, it all comes down to family and friends.  Are they happy and healthy?  That's really the most important thing to me.  Thank y'all for reading my silly little blog and for all your comments.  You is the bestest! <br /><br />Oh and do you know what else is important to me?<br /><br />Oprah. <br /><br /><img data-original="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/185tlm4s0m6zfgif/original.gif" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/185tlm4s0m6zfgif/cmt-medium.gif" /><br /><br /><br />She is so silly y'all.  <br /><br />You need to see <a href="http://gawker.com/5961927/oprah-is-more-batshit-insane-than-ever-my-favorite-things-about-oprahs-favorite-things-2012">this round-up of all her sillies.</a><br /><br />Thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing <a href="http://gawker.com/5961927/oprah-is-more-batshit-insane-than-ever-my-favorite-things-about-oprahs-favorite-things-2012">this video</a>.  It is one of my favvvvvooooorrrriiiitttteeee thiiiiiiiings!* (in Oprah's voice, duh)<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">*I watched her <a href="http://www.oprah.com/gift-list/Oprahs-Favorite-Things-2012">Favorite Things</a> last night and cried and jumped and danced.  I'm so glad it's back.  I knew it would be.  She has too much fun doing it.  It's a great way to kick off the season of giving.  </span><br /><br />I'm taking off the next few days, but may check in on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/belclairehouse">Facebook</a>. <br /><br />Have a Fabulous Thanksgiving Y'all! <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">P.S. I'm going to start replying to comments directly on the blog, so if you've asked a question check back here.  My email inbox gets crathzyathh full (I love it when Oprah says "crazyass" with her little lisp voice, that's how I'm saying it here), and sometimes I don't have a way to respond to comments that don't have an email address.  <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span>

Have a Lovely Thanksgiving!

Last year's Thanksgiving table from The Suze's house How excited are we to stuff our faces with turkey?  I love Thanksgiving.  I lov...

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On Magazine Subscriptions

Morning y'all! (this is a long post, skip to the bottom for a summary if you have ADHD)<br /><br />I need you to talk to me for a second about magazines.  I love them, but I have let my subscriptions lapse since we are moving.  Oprah was not too happy about this.  Her "people" are sending me collection agency notices for not renewing my subscription.  It's slightly alarming to get stuff in the mail from a collection agency and then even more so to get it from Oprah.  And do you know how hard it is to get a hold of Oprah to tell her you don't want her magazine right now?? It's impossible! Other mags do it, too, and it's very deceptive.  I wonder how many people just pay the money and subscribe for fear of a credit issue.  Just thinking out loud here.  It's something I'm going to look into.<br /><br />But that's really not what I'm here today to talk about - although if anybody who reads this is close friends with Oprah could you please tell her to knock it off - I'm here today to ask you what magazines you like and how you like to get them? Ever since the loss of my beloved <i>Southern Accents</i> and <i>Domino</i> (representing both sides of my dueling design demons), I've been like a lost child wandering in the woods looking for some identity.  Also, do I go the digital route and have them delivered to me over the internets or do I continue with the ancient method of prints on glossy papers, which are then bound and hand-delivered to the box that contains papers the old folks call "mail." Talk to me y'all. <br /><br />P.S. Did you see <a href="http://www.elledecor.com/celebrity-style/ivanka-trump-apartment-kelly-behun-interiors#slide-8">Ivanka Trump's nursery in Elle Decor</a>? <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYeHdyhRvF7uL0zL5Og5gFSEebe5sD-Efqhf9NCSrUz_udymo15mz0yp1-vXuMuF9tcPcGR0_q3VJwupBJygKeFv7EgqL2l3m-HLzhthL3xvDtgLaERCVQKdPFLheydoMLqyFFgJQ9A8U/s1600/Nursery+White+Elle+Decor+08-Ivanka-trump-apartment-lgn.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYeHdyhRvF7uL0zL5Og5gFSEebe5sD-Efqhf9NCSrUz_udymo15mz0yp1-vXuMuF9tcPcGR0_q3VJwupBJygKeFv7EgqL2l3m-HLzhthL3xvDtgLaERCVQKdPFLheydoMLqyFFgJQ9A8U/s1600/Nursery+White+Elle+Decor+08-Ivanka-trump-apartment-lgn.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I love it.  I love the ceiling and the whiteness and how it's so calm.  Of course, I read about it on <a href="http://celebritybabies.people.com/2012/09/04/ivanka-trump-elle-decor-white-nursery/">People's Celebrity Baby Blog</a> because I don't get <a href="http://www.elledecor.com/">Elle Decor</a> at the moment.  I loved this little blurb: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“As impractical as it is, what I wanted for my first baby was a simple, all-white nursery,” she explains in the October 2012 issue of <a class="tracklink3" href="http://www.elledecor.com/celebrity-style/homes/ivanka-trump-apartment-jared-kushner" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: #ee0077; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Elle Decor</em></a>.</span></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">“Then I started reading books that said babies need color for stimulation, and I was horrified. Within a month, I'd hung one of those ugly colored mobiles off the crib.”</span>  </span></blockquote><br />I'm pretty sure we can all relate to that.  I still love an all-white nursery.  I'll probably do something like that in the next house if I am ever again blessed with a little munchkin.  They can get color stimulation in the playroom. Ok, this has been a super long and wordy post. <br /><br />Talk to me y'all!<br /><br /><ul><li>What mags do you like? </li><li>How do you like to read them? Paper or digital</li><li>Are you being hunted by Oprah?</li><li>Am I going to have dumb children if I have an all-white nursery? </li></ul><div><br /></div><div>Okay, Go.  </div><br /><br />

On Magazine Subscriptions

Morning y'all! (this is a long post, skip to the bottom for a summary if you have ADHD) I need you to talk to me for a second about maga...

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