Category: DECORATING

• Ducklings in a Row

    Being in between projects can take its toll on a writer (or any creative sort.) Last week on Twitter I saw an image with the following uncredited quote: “Writing is the only intoxication that keeps the writer sober.” That’s so true! During the past three years of heavy writing and editing, I’ve tried to…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 22, 2018

  Anxiety, balance, clutter, creativity, DECORATING, editing, family, Gothic, inspiration, kids, LIFE, organizing, READING, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, editing, Gothic, inspiration, organization, The Possession Chronicles

• Bibliophile Problems

  If you couldn’t tell from my previous posts, I’m a book girl. There are a lot of books in my house. I’m talking more than dozens, more than hundreds, probably a couple thousand. I’ve never counted them all—that would mean math, and me and numbers don’t always get along. This afternoon, after answering yet another…

  Carrie Dalby

  January 28, 2015

  Avi, balance, books, clutter, fantasy, homeschooling, Katherine Paterson, Laurie Halse Anderson, library, LIFE, literature, middle grade, Nerdy Book Club, novels, organizing, pictures, READING, Terabithia, Uncategorized

• The Chill in the Air

  Christmas is about stories. The stories you make into memories with friends and family, those you read in scriptures to highlight the reason for the season, and the sometimes funny or heartwarming tales of winter that can be found in books of all sizes. Rather than focusing on presents, for the weeks leading up to…

  Carrie Dalby

  December 10, 2014

  childhood, children, Christmas, DECORATING, family, friends, HOLIDAYS, inspiration, kids, LIFE, memories, parenting, READING, trees

• Selfish

  After my last post shared a few things I’ve found during cleaning, but continue to keep on my desk through the decades, I moved to the next level of organizational hoarding: surrounding myself—literally—with books. Homeschooling my kids gives me a great excuse to collect more books than the average person. Here’s about half of the…

  Carrie Dalby

  January 28, 2014

  blog, clutter, creativity, CURRENT EVENTS, desk, homeschooling, inspiration, library, organizing, weather, winter, WRITING

• Nostalgic

  While cleaning/organizing my desk today, I realized I’m sentimental in both a functional and not-so-functional way. Yes, my fondness for British literary movies should have been a clue, but let me give you two examples from my office to prove my point. Exhibit One: Functional collection of Hello Kitty/Sanrio clips from the 1980s. I did…

  Carrie Dalby

  January 23, 2014

  clutter, DECORATING, desk, inspiration, LIFE, memories, nostalgic, organizing, time, winter, WRITING