Simplify Your Space: Create order and reduce stress
May 16, 2009 by NanG · Leave a Comment
Simplify Your Space: Create Order and Reduce Stress
by Marcia Ramsland
Wow, I thought the last Marcia Ramsland book I reviewed was good. This one just blew me away. I don’t know about you but I am totally visual. I really need to see what something is going to look like before I implement it so I know if it’s going to work for me or not. This book was just perfect for me. Throughout Simplify your Space, that’s exactly what you get. No only does Ms. Ramsland tell you how get the different areas of your home organized, everything from your bathroom to your basement and every room in between but she shows you how to do it as well.
The first thing I noticed is how the book is broken down. This I thought was one of the best features as you can work on the area you want or you feel needs to be worked on or should I say organized first. The different sections are entitled: Simplify your Visible Space, Simplify your Personal Space, Simplify your Active Space, Simplify your Formal Space, Simplify your Storage Space. Within each of these sections you will find the areas covered listed such as in the case of the Visible Space, this would cover your kitchen, family room and daily paperwork. Makes sense huh?
I especially found useful the Desk Setup and the illustration showing where everything should be and why. It all seems so common sense but I never would have thought it out the way she does. The way she recommends setting up your desk area makes things not only organized and neat but workable. It all flows from one side to the other. It all makes sense and makes it works. If you are like most people you desire a clean organized home and life but you may find it difficult to achieve, you will find Simplify Your Space Create Order & Reduce Stress just what you are looking for.
If you enjoy this book you will certainly want to check out her other books as well. Why not get you entire life organized from top to bottom, day in and day out!
The Manning Brides
May 14, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
The Manning Brides: Marriage Of Inconvenience\Stand-In Wife
By Debbie Maccomber
Marriage of Inconvenience
Rich Manning and Jamie Warren have grown up being best friends since high school, but never any more then just friends. But Jamie changes everything with just one question to Rich, “Will you father my child?” And to everyones suprise including Rich’s, he says yes, but with one stipulation. She has to marry him. Rich believes that if they get married he can turn this marriage into a real marriage.
Jamie agrees but soon does not think she did the right thing. And Jamie’s and Rich’s once friendship has turned into arguments, fights and things that neither one of them ever wanted to happen. Will Jamie and Rich work through their marriage or is it truly a Marriage of convenience.
Stand In-Wife
Paul Manning has lost his wife and while he is grieving he is also raising three small children. Paul’s sister in law Leah Baker has been helping the only way she knows how. But Leah soon sees Paul struggling even more and decided that it is time to step up to the plate and move in to help Paul with the kids. Paul finally agrees to let Leah move in.
Once Leah moves in feeling that Paul did not realize he had for Leah begin to surface. Are Paul and Leah meant to be together or are they just getting too comfortable.
I can see where Paul and Leah could fall for each other. They are not only living together but raising children together and spending more time together then many couples do.
City Of Ashes
May 11, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments)
By Cassandra Clare
Book two ~ The Mortal Instruments
Clary Fray’s life is anything but normal. Now that she is a shadowhunter and her mom is in a coma due to a magical spell that was placed on her, and she can see downworlders such as faeries, and vampires, Clary just wishes that she could go back the her normal life before all this happened. Now that Simon and Clary are become more then just friends she wants the normal life more then ever. But the shadowhunters are not wanting to let her go. Clary has only one hope to save her mother, to hunter down her rogue, insane, evil, shadowhunter father Valentine. And to make things worse someone or something is killing downworlders in New York, and Valetine might be behind it all.
When the Soul-Sword is stolen the Inquisitor is sure that Jace is teaming up with thier father Valentine. And then Clary thinks things could not get worse then the worst of the worst happens to Simon. Can Clary hand off of this and figure out how to get to Valentine if her brother Jace is helping him.
Clary has a wonderful spark about her that just draws you in and helps bring you into her world. She is a character that feels out of place, like many teenagers do. She is someone I remember being when I was a teenager.
I really like this book. It was one of those books that you pick up and have a hard time setting it down. And when you do set it down all ou can think about is getting back to it to see what happens next. There is something new and exciting happening around every corner.
