Showing posts with label Friday Favorites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday Favorites. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2012

Friday Favorites ~ Dollar Store Solutions

After reading my recent post about my dollar store party supplies, my buddy Nicole from Colie's Kitchen reminded me of all the great dollar store tips and tricks that can be found while browsing Pinterest.  So it only seems fitting to make that the topic of today's Friday Favorites! 


This first Dollar Store Solution is pure genius!  We've been wanting to get a backseat organizer for the truck for a while now.  But whenever we are in the automobile aisle at Walmart, I always think of other ways to spend that twenty bucks!  Heather from Decor-ganize shows how she turned a 5 pocket shoe organizer into a backseat organizer!  For a Buck!!! 


Deanna from Shady Tree Diary (love the name of her blog!), shares a clever idea for storing decks of cards and other small toys.  Grace is loving flash cards these days.  I normally keep them in small tins, but she has a few sets of cards and I'm out of the small tins right now.  Plastic soap dishes from the dollar store are a great, frugal solution for storing those different sets of cards! 


I've had my eye on this dollar store craft for a while.  Even before I knew about Pinterest.  It's hard to believe that this wonderful creation by Kara was once a plain silver serving tray from the dollar store!



My final Friday Favorite is something I think would really come in handy when we eat at Sonic.  This padded lap desk was created using a few dollar store finds.  I can't wait to check out our local dollar store....I'm hoping to find those great polka dot trays and place mats!  (I reallywanted to share the photo here, but tried 3 times to save the photo to a file and didn't succeed.)


To see more of my dollar store finds, check out my Dollar Store Stuff board on Pinterest

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Friday, February 3, 2012

Friday Favorites ~ Super Bowl ideas


I've been wanting to do Friday Favorites for a while, but every time I start a post, I get lost for hours on Pinterest!  Gosh!  It's so easy to just keep clicking and pinning and clicking and pinning, until next thing you know, it's 2 am! 

Well, this time, I'm just going to have to focus!  Pick a few of my favorites and that's it! 

I'm not much of a football fan, and aside from watching my nephews play football for school, I've never watched an entire game.  So, for me, Super Bowl Sunday is all about friends, food and commercials!  I like hosting for Super Bowl.  It gives me an excuse to be busy during the game! 

Last year, we served Chili, enchiladas and wings.  The big hit of the day was our Black Bean and Sweet Potato Chili

Another year, we served a couple types of soups, quesadillas and wings.  Hosting a SOUPer Bowl party was so easy.  I made everything a day or two ahead of time and just reheated and served in crock pots!  I definitely suggest this for any fall or winter parties! 

Here are a few of my favortie Super Bowl ideas from Pinterest.  Since I'm in a snacky mood today, I'm focusing on appetizers: 



Cheddar Bacon Dip



Pepperoni Pizza Puffs


Sausage and Pepperoni Pizza Puffs


Individual Seven Layer Dips


Cheddar Bacon Ranch Pull Apart Bread



Those are just some of the great appetizer ideas I've seen on Pinterest.  You can see more on my Super Bowl board or my Recipes to Try (Appetizers) board.  (I'll come back to add that link...Pinterest won't load for me right now.) 

Although, I still haven't decided which of those wonderful appetizer recipes to give a try on Sunday, the rest of our meal will be meatball subs and stuffed shells. 



And, since no party is complete without dessert, I'll probably make a batch of yellow cupcakes with Angel's Fantastic Frosting


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