Favorite things, round two!

After the first favorite things party, I learned so much, and we all swapped so many great hints that we decided it had to be an ongoing event!

We just had our most recent party in January, and here's what was brought:

• Lysol 4-in-1 cleaning spray
• Ghriadelli chocolate chips (Lisa, who brought these, makes the best toffee in the world with them)
• a fabric memo board for holding info/papers/pictures/hairbows or anything else
• Clorox wipes - one of the best cleaning products ever
• Yoplait strawberry cheesecake yogurt bites - only 30 calories each, and delicious
• A Valentine gift box with chocolates, strawberry plant starter, notecards, lotion & dish towel
• Dark chocolate covered butter cookies & Yankee maple syrup tealight candles
• an Emergency Clutch inspired from this post here
• a microfiber cloth and mini bobby pins
• Zotz sour candy - they have a fizzy middle, too
• Listerine strips (along with a great hint to keep them in your pocket for when you might get tired - you won't fall asleep with one of these in your mouth!)

Favorite Things Party

A few weeks ago I came across an idea for a Favorite Things party and thought it sounded like fun.

Here's how it works:

Each person brings their favorite thing (anything you like.. your favorite lip gloss, favorite kitchen tool, favorite magazine, favorite gift wrapping supply, favorite nail polish, a gift card for your favorite frozen yogurt, etc.). It can't cost more than $6, and each person brings five of the same thing.

You write your name on five slips of paper and throw them in a bowl and each person takes five names

Each person introduces their favorite thing and then reads the five names they picked from the bowl, passing out their gift to those five guests. Each person will end up with five gifts to take home.

We had a great time discussing our favorite products, books, movies, dates, day trips, local restaurants, make up, perfume and more. Now I have a whole list of fall activities I can plan, restaurants to try, books to read, and more.

We also ate some favorite things, like Ghirardelli brownies, snickerdoodle cookies, Ben & Jerry's red velvet ice cream, Simply Orange & Mango juice, coconut M&M's, Keebler olive oil & sea salt crackers, peanut butter snickers, and probably some more I can't think of at the moment.

I forgot to take a picture of everyone with their favorite thing! Here's what was brought:

• Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper
• Twix Bars
• Organizational container for baking supplies -put your baking soda, baking powder, corn starch, shortening -- any random baking supply -- and when you are ready to start baking, all you have to do is pull out this one container and set it on the counter rather than  hunting down the right ingredient in your cupboard!
• Fall leaves for decorating
• Extra spearmint gum
• Lindt chocolate truffles
• Farberware magnetic chip clips
• Bath & Body works Coconut Lime Verbena antibacterial hand lotion
• Chocolate "Ice Cubes" candy
• Coconut & warm ginger hand soap
• Warm sugar scented Yankee Candle
• Dish Scraper
• Patterned scissors

It was a great time and fun theme for a girl's night. Will have to do this again soon!