I LOVE Dollar General!! "Fabulous Find" and Blog Award

I am finally linking up for Fabulous Find Friday with Elizabeth at Fun in Room 4B!

So, my little town is lacking in the shopping area and when I go to the larger areas, I usually end up at Walmart.  After reading about all of your great finds at Dollar General or Dollar Trees, I decided to go in this little Dollar General (and it was old and little!)........Well, I DID FIND SOME TREASURES!!  Check out this cute lamp for my reading area!!  I think it was $10 with the base and shade.  The base is a transparent purple.

I just love the bright colors.  They had coordinating boxes too!  I am going to use these to store shared writing journals, story stones (still need to make), and other writing materials.  The "owl" themed box on the bottom right is from Family Dollar ($6).  I had to get it to go with my other owl decorations!  The Dollar General boxes were $7, $5, $2, and $1 for the smallest one.

Finally, I found these cute storage options in fun, bright colors.  They were each $1.

Check back on my Monday Made It to see what I will be putting in each container:)

My classroom keepsers (Amazon $15.49 for 6) that I am going to use for my book bins also arrived!  I can't wait to set them up in my classroom and already made room.  I will post pics when I can start setting things up:)

Oh, and I was at school Wednesday night bringing some of my goodies in (they haven't waxed yet so there is not much I can do).  I was there 9:00-11:30 (pm!) because I waited to put my little ones to bed.  It is a little freaky being in a dark building!  I don't recommend it!  However, I am grateful that I can get in at that late hour:)  I'm sure the maintenance staff thinks I am CRAAAAZZZYYY!!

I would like to say a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Saunder's Lovelies and Smiling and Shining in Second Grade for this blog award!  I have really wanted one of these awards because it is so pretty:)  Who doesn't want to be "lovely"?

For receiving this award I have to....

1. Follow the person who gave me the award. 

2. Link back to the person that gave me the award. 

3. Pass to 15 new bloggers and let them know they have received the award.....

I would like to pass this award to these wonderful bloggers...be sure to check out their great ideas!

1.  Fabulous and Fun 4th Graders

2.  Write On Fourth Grade

3.  Fancy Free in Fourth

4.  Fierce in Fourth

5.  Fifth Grade Fancy

6.  My Tales of a Fourth Grade Teacher

7.  Room 4 Imagination

8.  Miss R's Room

9.  Teach With all the Colors of the Wind

10. The Groovy Teacher

11.  4th & 5th Grade Happiness

12.  Teaching Third

13.  Adventures in Room 5

14.  The Craft of Teaching

15. Teaching With Hope