My classroom

My daughter was with me at Meet the Teacher and took a couple of shots of part of my classroom. As you can see, even with all the storage, my big stuff has to stack on top of the lockers. Here's the magnets that I made with my Cricut as well. I cut the butterflies from DCWV Nana's Kids pack papers and then added the info on each, laminated them and stuck a magnet on the back. Then the parents could take them and put them on their fridges at home. Most parents seemed to love the idea.

Back to school

I've spent the last week with my daughter (and occasionally my son and husband) fixing up my room for the coming school year. Friday was our first "offical" day back as teachers. We had a "welcome back" meeting in the morning and then in the afternoon we worked in our rooms. My teaching partner and I mapped out our first three weeks of lessons and set our schedule for the year.

My room is nearly finished. I have a couple of little things to finish and I'll be ready for Meet the Teacher Night next Friday.

I do need to get out my Cricut and cut some shapes for magnets. My teaching partner had the best idea. Make magnets to match your room theme and put your name, school phone, e-mail address and conference times on it for parents to keep handy all year long. I have "Goin' Buggy" theme this year, so I need to look for something in my Cricut carts to go with that. Butterflies, maybe?

I'll take pics and post them of the finished room soon.

Altered tins

These are three tins I whipped together. The round one is an old Altoid's tin. It will hold my DH's headphones to keep them from getting tangled up in the computer carry case. The other two are alterable tins from Oriental Trading Scrapbook. The one in the middle uses rub-ons and the other one is stamped and hand colored with watercolor markers.

Board Book Cover and all over view

The front of the book has two tags with the kids intials hanging from the ribbon. I added the year '09 on the binding and a quote from Billy Graham on the front. Dad was pleased with the whole thing.

Board Book

Each year I try to make my dad something that has the kids' pictures from the previous year on it. This year I made him a board book. Each set of pics has a quote that fits the pictures since he loves it when I do that.

The paper I used is from My Mind's Eye. I added ink and stickers along with some chipboard (basic grey and something else from my stash) and some rub-ons.

Altered items Clipboards

These are two altered clipboards I made last week. The first is a schedule board that I plan to use to keep track of who has to be where when this year. The second is a Farkle rules board for my sister. It lists all of the ways to score points in Farkle. They are both made with scrap papers, Making Memories glazes and dye inks. I used rub-ons on the schedule and thin chipboard pieces on the Farkle board.

Home and Refreshed

Well, once we catch up on missed sleep and laundry!

What an awesome week. The two preachers this year were Dr. Dennis Wiles from First Baptist, Arlington and Dr. Duane Brooks, Tallowood Baptist in Houston. They both were amazing preachers. We feel challenged and blessed and ready to serve.

The music was led by Jim Cleveland of FBC El Paso. Jeff and Kathleen both sang in the choir and in a smaller ensemble. Kathleen even got to play her flute one night for a congregation of nearly 1,000. It seemed a little strange to hear her announced as Kat Mills.

During the free time we had, I got to scrap some. I didn't have the pictures I thought I had, but I did make several cards and some altered items. I don't think I've scrapped that much at once in weeks!

I'll post some pics of the altered items and cards in future posts.