TGIF #1

I recently finished The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown and she mentions that she used to (or still does but I couldn't find it) do a weekly TGIF series on her blog, where she talked about a few things to do with trusting, gratitude, inspiring and faith. I thought it was a fun idea but decided to change the words for the letters and I'll probably change them every week because why not. I will stick with something to do with gratitude/being thankful though, because it's something I want to work on. I put it on my Operation Get Happy and have done absolutely nothing gratitude related. Perfect excuse to make me do it now. FYI no affiliate links were used.

Thinking - I had a busy weekend last weekend, next weekend will be busy, so this weekend will be the opposite of busy and I cannot wait to do absolutely nothing. Well, I will be doing some things - sitting on the couch, reading, eating, annoying my cats.. that's about it. Penny has been weird lately so I've been trying to suffocate her with my love to get her back to normal.

Grateful - I am trying to be less of a grinch this year so am trying to think of things that I like about cold weather. The number #1 thing I like about winter is making myself warm - hot drinks, blankets and slippers. So I'm grateful for those things, and bought myself some new slippers to celebrate being less grinchy... so far anyway.

Inspired - As I shared on Instagram, we finally installed our 'secret' drawers aka the drawer within a drawer. I also bought a bunch of stuff from ikea to organise and other random stuff, then I bought a couple of things from Chip & Jo's line at Target (I'm not a hardcore fan of them, but some of that stuff was crazy cute - namely this house lantern thing and this frame thing, I'm going to take the picture out, I just loved the frame) and it gave me the kick up the butt to really start organising and decorating the house. Of course I'm just doing it bit by bit, but it's better than not doing it at all.

Those drawer divider things were $1.99 each and perfect for our 2 junk drawers. That clip on basket was THREE DOLLARS, though full disclosure after I snapped the picture I realised my cabinet wouldn't close properly, and I cried a bit but then KC bent the front bit so it wasn't at an angle, now it closes. Phew. Our plastic bags were sitting in a trader joes bag and took up half that cabinet, so I bought one of those super fancy plastic bag holders for $1.99 and I love it. I'm trying to cut down on our plastic bag usage, but.. kitty litter. These bins from Ikea were $4.50 and they organise the rest of the under the sink mess, I love them and want 75 more. I also got 2 of the smaller ones and they are in my pantry. One day I want to get something bigger/fancier for my under sink so I use up some of that dead space but this'll do for now. Lastly, I've had this leaning bookshelf thing from Target for like 3 months, finally made KC put it together for this weird spot behind the couch aaaaand I love it. Now to fill it with all the crap.

Favourite - After we went to Ikea the other week, we went to dinner and got pizza and I discovered this new wine that I really liked and then found it at the bottle shop. So good. I'm still figuring out what kind of wine I actually like, and apparently I like this kung fu girl riesling.

So, that's a few things from me this week. Tell me, do you have any super fun organisational things I should buy? Did you get anything from Chip & Jo's whatever the line is called at Target?