The Sarnia (Social) Justice Film Festival

shop til you drop

On Saturday night, I was honoured to be asked to be a guest panelist for the Sarnia Justice Film Festival’s screening of “Shop ‘Tis You Drop:The Crisis of Consumerism”.  As a professional organizer, I often deal with clients that have many issues with buying and keeping TOO MUCH STUFF.  As in previous blog posts, you will … Read more

2010 POC Professional Development Day…

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WHAT A GREAT DAY! In October the London and Area Chapter hosted its first ever Professional Organizers in Canada (POC) Professional Development Day.  Wow, that was a mouthful!  It was a day to focus on our business and on how to be a better – professional! We had POC members from London & Area, Durham, … Read more

Blissdom – First Canadian Social Media Conference for Women

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I am so excited to be in Toronto to participate in Canada’s first Conference for women in Social Media.  Blissdom comes to Canada from it’s Nashville, TN home to help Canadian women bloggers, twitter fan and Facebook aficianado come together at one time and one place to share the ‘love’. Why is this important?  Social … Read more

Halloween – Food Organized!

AnotherLunch Halloween

Food Organized! All Photo are from: AnotherLunch.com O.K. know that I have blogged about Melissa’s blog – Another Lunch – before but how can you not go back when you see lunches like these?  I call her posts: Food Organized because she is a big believer in compartmentalizing food. For picky eaters or those that … Read more

Avery Dennison – Great Corporate Sponsor!

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  On Wednesday October 6th, the local chapter of the Professional Organizers in Canada held a Professional Development Day and Sara DePooter, Marketing Coordinator, Avery Dennison Office Products Canada helped us make it very successful and a really fun day by providing Avery products – for free 🙂 Gotta love that!Providing us with sample products for our attendees, … Read more

See what is in store…storage that is!

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Photo Source: Martha Stewart See What is in Store…storage that is… Using a picture of the item that is stored in a garment bag or container is a good way to keep track of items.  We tend to be visual people and when we see something we will remember it…and therefore have a tendency to wear … Read more

Teux Deux (To Do – Online list maker)

The things you find on Twitter… The thing is, people often ask me why I am so hooked on social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg etc. Well, an easy answer is because they are pretty cool. The business answer is it lets me communicate with my customers. The personal answer is I get to stay in … Read more