'The Home That Loves You Back' Home Harmonising Project Starts June 28th
Become a person with a naturally beautiful, organised, force-free home. A Japan-influenced ecosystem approach to decluttering and beyond.
Cecilia Macaulay
Declutter, Reset, Enjoy: Home Makeover, for people with better things to do than tidying up
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How to Host a Declutter Party: Mrs Asaba's Kitchen Revolution.
Can you handle a full-on Revolution? 'Are you willing to let go of 50 per cent of your kitchen stuff? I asked '70 percent! she said. 'I...
Cecilia's Butterbur Day
I love drawing its frilly round leaves. I love it when I call in on oldies in the countryside, and they shuffle over to offer me a dish...
List of the best food storage containers in Japan, for a free and breezy pantry and fridge
Its Golden Week here in Kamakura, the one week of the year the overworked people of Japan get days and days of time off to go put up a...
How Brave? Malala's song on Women's Day
My sister's choir sang this lulling whirlwind of a song on International Women's Day. I love the many moods, like life. It's a song for...
When the Big Buddha Became Homeless
On this day many centuries ago, a tsunami washed away the building that this guy Amida was housed in. The monks never built him another, and all his gold leaf came off. Being Buddha, he took it really well and sits there still. He never needed gold to be beautiful anyway. 771 years old, he is, The Great Buddha of Kamakura. For the next month or so, he will be a kind of neighbour of mine, as I'm…
Move to EcoTopia, Tasmania: Dream Permaculture Property creation story.
I've been in love with eco-villages since I read Mrs Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh, about a colony of very clever escapee lab rats, who...
Invite yourself over for dinner.
I'm doing something a bit radical this year, and so far, so good. It's called 'only do things you really, really like with people you...
Big Family, Merry and Easy Christmas
My Sydney brother keeps a humble cottage in the remote and lovely town of Beechworth. It's for lockdowns, for his chickens and ducks, and...
Skills Bring Freedom: My Wellness Retreat on a Storybook Farm
When I came and stayed at Gardenfarm a few years ago, it was my dream to fill the farm with people I enjoyed, and have them live and...
A rainbow-maker in a dark place
In a suburb of Melbourne, a cobwebbed chandelier was hanging in the corner of a cluttered courtyard. No light from this guy. I was leading the project to declutter the house. This hand-me-down chandelier watched from its spot, as one by one, week after week, the objects around it were given away. I moved in, and the owners moved next door. We took down the fence between us and announced we were…
Create your Sacred Space: declutter webinar this Sunday.
I hope you've had some bliss-out time in your introvert spot today. I've just moved to a new home, and I'm experimenting, dragging chairs...
Things I'd like to offer and receive from the friendly neighbourhood share economy of Rosanna
'Does anyone have Brasso they aren't using'? I was shy to put that request in the online community group. 'Why don't you just go buy it...
Discover Your Bedroom of Dreams
To live in a home where you are wanted, understood, and valued is heaven. Here is how Marie and I spent a day resetting her home, so...
Chrismas Can Be Perplexing. Manifest a Festival Just Right for You.
Christmas can be perplexing. It can also be a festival where we upgrade each other's lives, see each other in a new light, and get a...
Permaculture's 'Edge Effect' for a Decluttered, Delightful Fridge
When you open your fridge door, everything lights up. You see a 'tower of power' of beautiful food, stacked and ready to go. They are...
Wake up and your kitchen sink will smile at you: declutter & reset design that works, forever.
No matter how disorderly the rest of your house is, you start at the kitchen sink. Turn it into a shrine of beauty and love. It will spread.
Declutter your laundry monsters by making lovely 'families'
Declutter is both a spiritual practice and a team sport. The stuff that clogs up our houses has a life of its own, and hypnotises us to...
Declutter, Reset, and make your Sacred Space: 'Giftivist' Webinar coming up
My client Robyn and I made this little shrine of beauty, truth and love in a high-attention, high-value zone in her once-cluttered kitchen.
The home-made mask movement is growing. We can protect each other.
'We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.” Bill...