Spring Cleaning | Resources

After my first post on spring cleaning, your MatchGirl's Facebook wall was aflutter with tips and hints and resources to help one keep one's home a little more organized!

A few of my faves:

First, my friend Kate Payne wrote a killer book called The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking (yes, that's your MatchGirl mentioned in the sewing section). This book (pictured, left) shows you that anyone can keep an amazing home, you just need a little ingenuity and the desire to do it. From making a lovely space to overnight guests to throwing parties to canning your own food, Kate walks you through it all. Seriously. Buy it.

Books!

Your MatchGirl, gentle readers, has been anxious to organize her books. When Boyfriend and I first moved into this place in April, he put the shelves where we thought we wanted them and we threw the books up on them, planning to organize later.

Purging: Stoop Sale

Gentle readers, your MatchGirl held a stoop sale yesterday, on her little street in the northern part of Greenpoint.

The Written Word

Gentle readers, something that your MatchGirl has a lot of is books.

And I love to have a lot of books. Art theory books from undergrad, loads of favorite dog-eared novels, cookbooks with gorgeous pictures and cookbooks with no pictures at all.