It is Friday again and this week I have been keeping up with the reader a bit better. Here are a few of the best organizing posts I found! If you have an organizing post you’d like highlighted here, click on the image above for details on how to participate. Happy Organizing Friday!

Organizing Tips

Mandi at Organizing Your Way wrote a fabulous article with some great tips about how to Maximizing Your Kitchen Space: Dealing with Counter Clutter.

 Tanna from Complete Organizing Solutions offers a few fabulous ways to Organize Magazine Pages! I am putting this method to work this weekend.

Cleaning Tricks

This window washing trick from TidyMom I am definitely going to have to try. Thanks Cheryl at Tidy Mom!

I Love Lists!

Mama King  from 4 Crazy Kings offers a fabulously complete craft supply must-haves list that is sure going to help you prepare for any kid crafting project that comes your way!

:: Also check out a new series I know I am going to love: 1 Question, 3 Answers; Organizing Triple Play. Tanna from Complete Organizing Solutions, Mandi from Organizing Your Way, and Laura from I’m and Organizing Junkie are putting their organizing prowess together to offer readers 3 different organizing solutions for one challenge. This week’s topic is “What is that in your junk drawer?” Click on the links above to see each of these organizers’ responses!

That’s it for my Reader round-up.

A totally different note, but still organizing, I am looking at a few weekends of landscaping. Right now, we have two stumps in the front of our town home, and NOTHING ELSE.

It is actually better than when we bought the home. The holly bushes attacked you when you tried to get in the front door and the boxwood shrubs were so out of hand, you couldn’t see the double window!!  Since this project affects our neighbors as well, we have elevated it to high priority. In organizer fashion, I have already made measurements, drafted ground plans and side elevations, researched materials and techniques, and created a budget. I am hoping that the rain holds off this weekend in northern Virginia long enough for us to lay some concrete and pavers. As you can probably tell from my More About Me post, I have some building experience but I have limited landscaping experience, especially when it comes to building retaining walls in a frost area. But, with a couple of professionals in the family (just a phone call away) I feel excited to tackle this project! Wish us luck. (For those of you who have been following a long, yes, this project is in addition to our reclaiming the basement project.) Happy Organizing Friday!