No More Than We Need

Suddenly, it's time for the last blog I need to write for the Ikea liveLAGOM project - hasn't time flown!  I've been sat here thinking about how the project has affected me and trying desperately to think of some great headline saving or major life-altering flash-bang-wallop moment, but it occurred to me there isn't one.  Have I failed at what this was all about?  Should I have taken on something a bit more worthy than creating a sewing space??!  *Calm down Claire*  When I stopped trying to find the one 'big bang', I started to see how many small things have changed in how I live and how I think about things.  And, all these little things are starting to add up - like a dripping tap, at first it seems like nothing but then you put a glass under it and it fills that, then a saucepan, then a bucket, then you realise it could fill the ocean, eventually...a bit dramatic perhaps, but drip, drip, drip... Although my project was about decluttering and creating...

A Scottish man once gave me a wonderfully descriptive word, a 'gersinter'.  We’ve all got one (go on admit it) – it’s the place where all those things you don’t really know what to do with ‘gersinter’ (say it with a Scottish accent and you might get it…no?...goes inta, into? Ha ha!).   It might be a drawer in your kitchen, a cupboard in the spare room or even the spare room itself!   You’re probably asking what this has got to do with anything – good question, I’ll try and explain. A bit earlier this year, I saw an email from Ikea inviting people to apply for the #liveLAGOM project.   I read the blurb, sounded interesting and had a philosophy I liked, so I thought “why not?”, bashed out an application, then lost all hope of ever hearing about it again.   Then out of the blue, I got an email saying I’d been successful.   To quote Wallace & Gromit, cracking! I went along to the induction, dreading that they’d ask me to talk a...