Father's Day

a little late... I know. Maybe you can use it next year? I do these every year with my kids because I think they are just so adorable. In the past I pre-cut the collar part, but this year I gave my kids a ruler to lay along the top, trace a line, and cut a little on each side. They turned out so well, my best friend invited us to her class to help her kinders make them. :) Here are some pictures. 

Click here for copies of the tie, pocket, coupons, and insert.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to Me!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week everyone! All of you bloggers out there really inspire me and make me love my job even that much more, so thank you! I bought myself a little gift, or actually a lot of little gifts, at TpT. I went totally nuts and am too embarrassed to admit how much I spent, but I thought, "you know what? You deserve it!' and went ahead and bought everything on my wish list. Eeeek! I haven't even had time to go through all of it. Sooo excited! I know the kiddos are going to love it all. 

On another note, Mother's Day is coming up and I had to go and be a copy cat. Growing Kinders had this idea posted and I thought it was too precious. Plus, I didn't have to spend a dime! More money for TpT! lol. Here are some pictures...

Our laminator was broken at school and I went to my friend's class to complain to her and she offered me her little personal laminator. I actually had one already, but had never took it out of the box. Well, now I am obsessed. I swear, if I could marry this Scotch laminator, I would. It is AMAZING! I did A LOT of laminating today and it never bubbled or wrinkled, was actually pretty fast, and the lamination itself is pretty thick. I of course blamed thanked my friend for my new found obsession and went back to my class to find something else to throw in the machine. In case you are wondering, the machine is super cheap. I think I payed like $20 for the machine and 50 laminating pouches at Costco or WalMart/Sam's Club. 

Well, I'm off to print my new purchases and do some laminating. Wild Wednesday night, I know. 

These are a few of my fav-or-ite things...

wow. blogging is addicting. or do you call it blogging when you are just looking at other peoples projects? 111 views! too bad 100 of those are mine and 11 are from my friends at the 2nd grade teachers' club. anyways...

i am loving these right now.

i could totally turn this into a class project with all of the chewed up crayons that end up on my floor.

i found another person to stalk now. (lucky you, chris)

how cute are these!?! they are made using those giant paper clips all of us teachers looooove. i could use these to keep the little one's papers clipped up on the writing wall (below) with the kiddlet's pictures on them (instead of the p)! or even on my white board to clip up lunch calendars or make up work. or what about making a bunch and giving them to the staff as welcome back gifts. and i could keep going but i still am not sure if anyone is even looking at this ;)

Okay and my last favorite thing... to share for today at least is this.

blogging 101: always keep track of where you are stealing ideas from so you can give them some credit. sorry. if you see this and you are the creator... let me know. believe me, i know all too well about wanting credit for things i make. i'm a teacher. remember? back to the picture. i am thinking this would be a cute project to make and display for back to school or open house. maybe some life cycle project or an all about me project?

okay ... that's it for now. 

maybe when i wake up in the morning i'll have 2 followers.