Friday Favorites: Birthdays & Dollar Tree Organization

Once upon a time, I attended a local MOPS (mothers of preschoolers) community group and landed on the leadership team for awhile. If you asked any one of us what our favorite MOPS day was, the most popular response would be "My Favorite Things!". At the end of the year, the leadership team would feature their favorite things. It could be anything from coffee creamer to their favorite lipstick. There were times when a "favorite" was share with the whole room, just like on Oprah. "Everybody gets one!" And when I was on the team, I would rewrite the words to Sound of Music, "My Favorite" things song and sing it. Yeah. I had no shame.  And don't think I haven't thought about doing the same thing for the Friday Favorites. No worries my dears, you will be the first to know when I do. Until then I'll share this weeks favorites on birthdays and Dollar Tree organization, in the customary fashion.

Baking & Celebrating

My hubby's birthday was last week, followed by my oldest's birthday this week. One of my goals is to bake more goodies for the family, so this was the perfect opportunity. For Glen, the boys and I made a chocolate Reese's cake from Andrea at Living on Cloud Nine. The boys did great and I was elated to have a cake I couldn't mess up! And by the way, the cake was a total hit!!!

For Ethan's Birthday

Ethan asked for pizza and I happily obliged. His birthday fell on a Monday, right after the Super Bowl, which we hosted for so I was exhausted after a long, busy weekend. That being said, I went for the Pillsbury Dough sugar cook roll as opposed to attempting this one from scratch. Thank you 3 Yummy Tummies for the tasty recipe!

Dollar Store Organizational Containers

While randomly surfing Pinterest, I stumbled onto a pin from Do It On a Dime for organizing your space with dollar store containers. Intrigued I watched her whole video and was so inspired that I ventured to the Dollar Tree the next day! Containers can be incredibly expensive! Why hadn't it occurred to me to go there for organizing areas that aren't out in the open. Here's a few pictures of the spaces I cleaned up for less than $20!

The Boy's Bathroom

It was a mess under the sink! However, I used the shoebox size boxes for medical supplies, travel size items and extra toothbrushes etc. Then I finally simplified bathroom cleaning by gathering all necessary supplies into one bin. Done!

In the medicine cabinet (old Florida home thing),  there were a few items that fell over anytime I hunted for a particular item, so I used these small containers I found in the kitchen section.

My Armoire 

Our master bath is tiny with no space for nail polish supplies, my Simply Earth goodies, etc. For now all the overflow goes in an armoire we brought from Georgia. Though I hope to make more practical use of the space in the future, there's more important projects pending for now. However, finding items in the system I had was frustrating.

 The nail polish organizer and the two plastic baskets are from Dollar Tree - $3 for a cleaned up space!!

I'll be moving onto my bathroom and then the pantry next. Have you shopped at the Dollar Tree for baskets to organize the house before? Maybe I'm the last one to the party!

Thank you so much for taking time to read! I hope you have a fantastic weekend my friends and if you haven't seen my post on Monday featuring Simply Earth's February box, or Wednesday's not so typical Valentine Outfit, please take a moment and share in on more adventures with me!

Chrissy