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:

Show Us Some Bloglovin' Giveaway!

You have probably heard by now that Google Reader is going away on July 1st. Well, Google Reader may be going away, but I sure hope YOU don't go away! I hope that you will consider following my blog with Bloglovin! I know that change is hard...so several of my blog friends thought we might sweeten it up for you a little bit!

Several bloggers are doing a giveaway for all of our fabulous followers that take the leap and switch over to Bloglovin'. And I thought I would join them! You may have already switched over. In that case, this will be an easy entry!

If you have not yet switched or are not following my blog through Bloglovin', then there are a few easy steps to follow. You can go to my sidebar (that's the column on the right over there that shows my followers) and you can click the button that says Follow this Blog with Bloglovin'. Or, you can go into the Rafflecopter below and click the link in the first entry, and that will take you to my blog on Bloglovin'.

You will need to set up an account with Bloglovin' so that you can follow me. Please be sure to leave your bloglovin' username in the Rafflecopter entry. Then, go to this post on Bloglovin' and "like" it. If you want to go ahead and move all of the blogs you follow from Google over, you can go to this link and it will take you through the super easy steps. BUT, please go to my Bloglovin' link and make sure that you are following me through bloglovin'. To be sure, make sure that the blue button at the top of my Bloglovin' page has been clicked (it should be gray with the word following- if it's blue, please click it to follow!)

So, if you follow me by Bloglovin, please enter this giveaway!! I will be picking 2 WINNERS and each winner will get their choice of 2 things from my TpT STORE!

Good luck!
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1. School Is a Happy Place	2. Beach Sand and Lesson Plans	3. I Love My Classroom	4. Apples and Papers
5. A Teaspoon of Teaching	6. Camp Kindergarten	7. Ideas By Jivey	8. Pinkadots Elementary
9. Im Lovin Lit	10. Looking From Third to Fourth	11. Fourth Grade Flipper	12. Literacy Spark
13. Teaching Tales Along the Yellow Brick Road	14. The Polished Teacher	15. Teaching Maddeness	16. Learning to the Core
17. Fun in Room 4B	18. Primary Junction	19. Joy in the Journey	20. Where the Wild Things Learn
21. Lucky to be in First!	22. First Grade Buddies	23. Rosie's Rambles	24. Fifth in the Middle
25. Creating Lifelong Learners	26. Hunter's Tales from Teaching	27. Hoots N' Hollers	28. Hippo Hooray for Second Grade!
29. Sweet Rhyme - Pure Reason	30. The Brown Bag Teacher	31. Third Grade Tidbits	32. Eclectic Educating
33. Mrs. Laffin's Laughings (4th Grade)	34. Teach N' Tex - 2nd Grade is the Bomb!	35. Miss V's Busy Bees	36. Stellar Students
37. Laura Love to Teach	38. teaching, life, and everything in between	39. Coffee Cups and Lesson Plans	40. Suntans and Lesson Plans
41. Teaching with a Touch of Twang	42. Polka Dot Lesson Plans	43. Middle School OCD	44. Closing the Gap... in a Cute Outfit!
45. Yearn to Learn	46. Elemetnary School Garden	47. iTeach 1:1	48. Polka Dot Firsties
49. Crofts' Classroom	50. A Teacher Without a Class	51. A Burst of First	52. Karmens Kinders
53. My Life as a Third Grade Teacher	54. Hodges Herald	55. 1stgradefireworks	56. Fab and Fun in 4th!
57. Teaching Little Miracles	58. Kickin' it in Kindergarten	59. Diamond Moms Treasury	60. The Teacher Chick
61. 24/7 Teacher: Amy Harrod & the Big 100	62. Teach*Pray*Love	63. Kinders on the Block	64. Albuquerque Amy's First Graders
65. Taming My Flock of Firsties	66. Adventures With Firsties	67. K-3 Connection	68. Teacher Talk
69. Idea Backpack	70. Learning in the Little Apple	71. Smedley's Smorgasboard Of Kindergarten	72. First Grade Teacher Lady
73. Ms. Jones' Junction	74. Mrs. Pauley's Kindergarten	75. First Grade is TOADally Awesome!	76. I Teach. What's Your Super Power?
77. Tori's Teacher Tips	78. Wolfelicious	79. Little Second-Grade Somebodies	80. Fancy Free in Fourth
81. Crayons and Curls	82. AppleGirlAmber	83. Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas!	84. Learning Is Something To Treasure
85. Teaching Fabulous Firsties & 2nd Grade Smarties!	86. You Might Be a First Grader...	87. Lori @ Life in Room 24	88. Mrs. Johnson's Little Prowlers
89. Teaching with Moxie	90. Sliding into First!	91. Life in Middle School	92. Mrs. Russell's Room-First Grade
93. Primary Inspired	94. Learning in Bliss	95. First Grade Circus	96. Super Sparkly in Second
97. First Grade Brain	98. Charlotte's Clips and Kindergarten Kids	99. Heart Mrs. Smith	100. Teachingisagift (Gifted Education and More)
101. Teachin Little Texans	102. Live, Laugh, I LOVE Kindergarten	103. 2 Brainy Apples Orchard	104. travel teach and love
105. Lovely Literacy & More	106. Caffeine and Lesson Plans	107. the tattooed teacher	108. The Blessed Teacher
109. Teaching With Style and Grace	110. A Tender Teacher for Special Needs	111. 2peasandadog Teaching Blog	112. Elementary Matters
113. KinderMyles	114. Rulin' The Roost	115. Learning with Mrs. Langley	116. Books, Bugs & Boxes
117. Table Talk with C&C in 2nd Grade	118. Crayons and Storybooks	119. Mrs. Thigpen's Kindergarten	120. Keepin' It Krazy with Mrs. Berns
121. Mrs. Adams' Kinders	122. Wild Rumpus	123. Creation Castle	124. First Grade is a Treat
125. Surviving Sixth Grade	126. Sarah's First Grade Snippets	127. Love. Learn. Teach. (4th Grade)	128. In That Room...Adventures in Second Grade
129. The Techie Teacher	130. Mme Julie's Classroom	131. 4th Grade Frolics	132. Adventures of a Third Grade Teacher
133. Primary Paradise	134. MissKinBK: A Fifth Grade Blog	135. The Craft of Teaching	136. 3rd Grade Thoughts
137. Fun And Easy First Grade	138. Run Teacher Run!	139. Lovin' Kindergarten with Mrs. Lindsey	140. What Happens in First Grade
141. Creative Lesson Cafe	142. Polka Dot Palace	143. Whooo's in Second?	144. The Price of Teaching
145. Learning With Mrs. Brinn	146. Teaching to Inspire in 5th	147. Fourth Grade Studio	148. Kinder Doodles
149. Tales of Frogs and Cupcakes	150. Adventures of Room 129	151. Primary Possibilities	152. A Sunny Day in First Grade
153. First Grade Smiles	154. Teaching Snip-Its	155. Peace, Love, and Kindergarten	156. Kindergarten: Holding Hands and Sticking Together
157. The Educated Crown	158. Simply Second	159. Jillian Martin	160. Learning in Progress
161. Sandy's Learning Reef	162. The TechKnowledgey Teacher	163. Enchanting Elementary	164. More Than Math by Mo
165. Whimsy Workshop	166. Sparkling in Kindergarten	167. My Second Sense	168. Miss A's Kindergarten
169. Shfiting Teacher K-2	170. Kids Math Teacher	171. Collaboration Cuties	172. Head Over Heels for Teaching
173. I {Heart} Recess

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