https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:56:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/27/flylady-and-how-i-became-a-relatively-tidy-and-organised-housekeeper-in-mid-life/ https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/27/flylady-and-how-i-became-a-relatively-tidy-and-organised-housekeeper-in-mid-life/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:09:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/27/flylady-and-how-i-became-a-relatively-tidy-and-organised-housekeeper-in-mid-life/ Vermeer, Music Lesson,   Until 2008, one of our greatest sources of sadness and irritation was the fact that we were rather messy and disorganised. And, as for the girls, well, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. But we have gradually changed. If you show up unannounced, or better still, with 15 minutes […]

The post Decluttering: An Easy Way to Start a Virtuous Circle in Your Life first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/27/flylady-and-how-i-became-a-relatively-tidy-and-organised-housekeeper-in-mid-life/feed/ 5 https://anitamathias.com/2010/05/14/flylady-net-on-setting-up-domestic-routines/ Fri, 14 May 2010 09:43:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/05/14/flylady-net-on-setting-up-domestic-routines/ Flylady.net on the importance of setting up domestic routines “As you establish the basic habits, you are going to begin to feel your light shining brightly! With your habits established you are free to follow your dreams and use your creativity in ways that bless you instead of ways that sidetrack you. You can’t skip […]

The post Flylady.net on Domestic Routines first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/05/14/flylady-and-hospitality-an-idiosyncratic-approach/ Fri, 14 May 2010 08:39:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/05/14/flylady-and-hospitality-an-idiosyncratic-approach/  Flylady, the spunky North Carolinian housekeeping guru has this amusing advice–if your house gets messy invite someone to visit to motivate you to clean it up. If it gets really messy, really desperate, invite someone to stay. Last Sunday, we hosted a tea party today for 14 adults & 17 children, all of whom got on […]

The post Flylady and Hospitality: An Idiosyncratic Approach! first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/23/flylady-domesticity-and-housework/ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:11:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/23/flylady-domesticity-and-housework/   Our cleaning lady from Zimbabwe is singing in rich, high voice as she cleans. She is singing worship songs; I believe I have heard the melodies before. She reminds me of Lena, our previous Brazilian cleaner who also sung as she worked. I love the sound of their singing. It has such a happy […]

The post Flylady, Domesticity and Housework. first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2007/07/01/affluenza/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:37:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2007/07/01/affluenza/ A surprise among the lists of ten most popular websites is a spunky North American one, Flylady.net. It’s basically about the problem of too much stuff and how to organize it. The stories and testimonials are chilling–about the real distress caused by those who have too much stuff, more than they can handle, organize, keep […]

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