Secret Santa...

This week the teacher's at my school have been doing Secret Santa...each day has had a theme for guiding you in your gift giving. We set a $25 limit for the week! It has been soooo much fun! For my "something red" day, I wanted to make a cute little recipe card holder {or photo holder} for my giftee

I purchased a small home decor plaque at Wally World for $3.97, a small table top easel for a buck, I used scrapbook paper and a strip of material that I already had on hand. I mod podged the paper to the plaque...scuffed up the edges a tad with my sanding block...created one of those darling fabric rosettes{added a touch of ribbon and a pearl gem} and used E6000 to attach a bulldog clip.... I love how it turned out!

My

"Something Red"

I found some really cute recipe cards for Christmas at ishareprintables.com that I printed on cardstock and created a little note that read "A little something red for you to hang a recipe card or a photo instead" haha! I know I am such a poet...

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Teacher Christmas Gift! ! !

Back in October I was at Hobby Lobby digging through the clearance like a mad woman when a bargain aisle caught my eye.

See this little metal sign

My wheels went to spinning...what could I do with this??? I put one in my buggy and walked around for a minute before the lightbulb moment happened...Christmas gifts for my children's teachers! I ran like a black friday shopper walked back to the clearance aisle and scooped up the other two boards...

I mean seriously...a clearanced metal board... some magnets {those are in the works}...add a little modge podge, scrapbook paper, an adorable flower and viola...an economical gift! That I {as a teacher} would love!

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Thanksgiving...

My 10 year old sweetie, Chloe Ann, baked these amazing cookies today for our Thanksgiving feast tomorrow!

They are super yummy!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 c. canned pumpkin

1 c. white sugar

1/2 c. vegetable oil

1 egg

2 c. flour

2 tsp. baking powder

2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. milk

1 Tblsp. vanilla

2 c. semi-sweet choc. chips

1/2 c. chopped pecans

1. Combine pumpkin, sugar, oil, and egg. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking soda dissolved in milk, stir in baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix well.

2. Add vanilla, chocolate chips, and nuts

3. Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet and bake @ 350 degrees for 9-10 minutes or until lightly brown.

Framed Fridge

So it has been such a long time since I've gotten to do anything crafty...and I hate it when I don't have time to do something creative! So I decided to do a quick craft for my fridge today. I was inspired by this post...oh how I love rainy Saturdays!

The first thing I did was dig through my stash of other people's junk garage sale goodies. I found a small frame that I paid a quarter for...woot woot! Then I tore the easel off the back of the frame.

Then I used a piece of scrapbook paper, inked the edges, and typed up a quick saying for Fall and inked the edges of that....and because I was lazy the hot glue gun was plugged in I used a little hot glue to adhere it.

Next I hot glue four magnets to the back of the frame....one in each corner.

And viola...the finished product {for now} on my dirty fridge....just keepin' it real folks!!!

One more shot.... love it!!!!

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I love me some SONIC

Please go to www.limeadesforlearning.com and click on "pick a project" then click keyword and type in "flip". I have written a grant through donorschoose to get a flip video camera for my classroom. Sonic has a wonderful program that is in its 2nd year. They donate tons of money to all kinds of teacher written grants. Last year SONIC funded 2 projects for me! You can vote once a day, everyday until the 30th....they may extend it until October 7th depending on the voting numbers. You can vote once a day per email address you can use....I have 3 accounts therefore I am voting 3 times a day....I appreciate anyone and everyone that will do this AND my 4th graders will L-O-V-E you for it!!!!

M.I.A

Wow! Since school has started back I have not had the time to work on any projects! Boo!!! I think {hopefully} we should be getting into some kind of routine...we will be on week 3 Monday.

My mom is a 1st grade teacher. She rocks too! She has one of the cutest classrooms ever. She asked me to paint some of her classroom furniture this summer. So last weekend I painted her book cart lime green and black zebra. She has a jungle theme going on...but wanted to add some "POPS" of color!

This weekend I have been working on this little bookshelf for her room. Here is the before...

Such a cute little shelf...simple with a cute scallop edge...this piece was in my room as I was growing up...so it's truly vintage...lol! I sanded this beauty and primed it. Then painted it with a flat black spray paint. After the spray paint dried, I used strips of torn painters tape to make zebra stripes...this will work as a mask.

Then I sprayed Krylon's Ocean Breeze Blue {my favorite color right now} on the sides of the bookshelf.

Remove the tape when the spray paint is dry. And VIOLA~ instant zebra stripes!!!!

I decided she really needed a little more wow factor, so I used Krylon's Sun Yellow on the top and to pop that darling scalloped edge...and of course EVERYTHING needs a little polka dot action....I think she turned out precious....and MOM loves it!!!!!

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First Day of School 2010-2011

We started back to school today! My baby started 3rd grade...and can you believe I am old enough to have a 5th grader??? How did that happen?

My sweet baby girl is a big 5th grader...

Always the ham...

How do you really feel about starting school today??? lol

My favorite...new shoes...the cleanliness...wonder how long it will last? bahahaha!

Hope you and yours have a great first day...whenever it may be:)