TPT Back to School Sale!

{Thank you for the cute button Krista!}

Wahoo!! It's finally that time again!! I know you've all been working on building your wish list on TPT...I sure have!! Well, it's time to dump all of those wish list items into your shopping cart AND save 28%! Love me a good sale :)

I've been working hard on my classroom for the  past two days. It's not nearly ready for pictures yet, but as soon as it's done I will post!

Now, get shopping!!!

Monday Made It {7/29} & 50 Follower Giveaway Reminder!

I'm so excited to share my Monday Made It goods this week! I've been busy creating digital products and crafting things for the house we are {hopefully} going to be closing on in a few weeks {fingers crossed, it's been a rough road!}

My first MMI is something I've had on my to-do list since LAST SUMMER! I finally got around to doing it last week. My boyfriend bought me a sewing machine for my birthday in March and this was my first sewing project! I had received two directors chairs for free last summer and had big plans of painting them white and making new seat covers. Here's how they turned out!!

I just love the chevron :) 

Next up, I spent many long hours sweating in the 90+ degree CT weather {not to mention the humidity!} to complete this dresser renovation:

BEFORE

AFTER :)

I'm going to start working on refinishing the nightstands this week! My last home made it is a starburst mirror made out of skewers {yes, what you use to grill food on!}...such an inexpensive and quick house decoration!!

Now, on to my classroom made its! I'm jumping onto the "brag tag" bandwagon this year! I've read such great things about them and decided to give them a try. I always like to try and create things myself so that it matches my style, so I created a few brag tag collections that are available to purchase at my TPT store:  

Brag Tags Collection {Modern}

 Brag Tags Homework Club Edition

 Brag Tags Reading Goal Edition

Brag Tags Super Student Edition

And my LAST classroom MMI {I know, longest post ever!} is a collection of coupons and tickets to use in your classroom. I am going to be using them with my Chevron & Chalkboard Clip Chart instead of a treasure box this year. 

Behavior Coupons & Clip Chart Tickets

Don't forget to enter my 50 follower giveaway!!

50 Follower Giveaway!!

Wahooo! I'm so excited to reach 50 followers! It took a while, and while my numbers may still be low, I'm happy to have you all here with me :)

To say thanks for following, I'm going to be giving away two items {of YOUR choice} from my TPT store to 2 followers :) Be sure to enter and tell all of your blogging buddies to head over and enter!!

Winners will be announced on Thursday!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Monday Made It {7/15}

I've been busy again his week creating digital items for my classroom while I visit my sister and her family in Washington State!

First up! Since I'm switching from third to second this year, I made Common Core "I Can" Statement Cards for both ELA {Reading, Writing, Language, Speaking & Listening, Language} and Math!

And now, the one I'm the proudest and most excited about!!! Inspired by everyone's DIY Teacher Planner's... I created my own!

I am going to be adding more styles in the next few days. All of these items are, of course, available for purchase at my TPT store! I will be offering a 20% discount on all of my newly created products until July 18th!

Be sure to head over to Tara's to check out all of the other amazing Monday Made It's!

Thanks for looking :)

Monday Made It {My First This Summer!}

Wahooo!! I'm so excited to be linking up for the first time this summer with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It!

Since I'm across the country visiting my sister in WA, I have no room in my suitcase for tangible MMI's, so I've been working on digital things.

So, without further ado-- here's my first MMI:

And my second MMI:

Both of these products are available in my TPT Store! Be sure to check out all of the other wonderful MMI's :)

Giveaway Winners & July Currently

Thank you to everyone who entered my TPT giveaway and are now following me on bloglovin'! Congratulations to the lucky winners, Lisa and Cheryl! I have emailed you both explaining how to get your loot :)

I'm linking up for the first time with Farley from Oh' Boy 4th Grade for her July Currently!

New Blog Design!!

I'm so excited to reveal my new blog design! I spent the day {literally} putting it together. The best part is that I designed it all by myself! I'm so proud :)

Of course, I couldn't have done it without the help of Megan's amazing blog tutorials over at I Teach. What's Your Superpower? If you haven't checked them out, head over there right now. She has so many helpful videos that walk you right through the many awesome things you can do to your blog!

Let me know what you think! Thanks for stopping by :)

P.S. Only a few hours left to my giveaway!

It feels GOOD to be back!!

I am officially the worst blogger! This year has been quite the whirlwind, but now that I'm back in summer-mode, I'm so excited to start blogging and CRAFTING again!!! I was so sad when I started my new job at the beginning of this past school year and they told me that my room had to have a "natural feel" -- you should have seen all of the rolling eyes and skaking of heads when I started bringing in my Monday Made It's and cute rugs/pillows/lamps, etc. They made me march it all right back into my car and take it home..so.sad :( Then I had to go back into all of the cute files I had made for my classroom and change them to basic boring colors...ahh!

Now...I am actually moving again to another school to teach second grade, but it is with the same district (It's a district with lots of Magnet Schools), so I'm not quite sure what the rules will be about the look and feel of the room. Keeping my fingers crossed that they will allow more creativity!!

I thought you might want to see what my room looked like this year. There is some color (I tried to sneak it in as much as I could)!!

Take a Peek into my 3rd Grade Classroom: