Gluten Free Bread is the SHIZ

My boyfriend's dad works at a bakery, and occasionally he brings me a treat.  This little baby cost $9.  I feel special!

I do this in my spare time because I'm a decent human being

Preschool Classroom Makeover

When I started in the Preschool classroom in June, it was ugly. It was more than ugly. It was supremely horrible. Holes in the walls, splotchy paint, broken tiles, busted furniture, stains everywhere.

The first thing I did was to clean, clean, clean. Then I rearranged the furniture to better serve my classroom. Here's what it looked like before:

Yep, above that red chair is where the drywall has been peeled off.

Mint green on three walls and gray on the fourth. Ew.

Note the art easel next to the wall. What you can't see is the splotches of paint all around it. Also note the ugly as sin bookshelf. Someone took that poor thing and painted it blue with sponge painted white clouds. And they did a terrible job.

For some reason the bulletin board was sideways. The drywall on this side is peeling off on the bottom from water damage.

At last we see the door to this nightmare.

We started taking everything off of the walls and using joint compound to fill the holes. Here's a better shot of the fugly book shelf.

It took two coats of primer and three coats of paint, but now it is a nice, neutral beige. Thank goodness! That thing hurt my head just looking at it.

Now for the AFTER shots:

Muuuuuuuch better. After spending about 18 hours with another lady painting, here it is! The theme is "garden." Bugs and flowers. It's nifty.

I moved the cubbies, parent info boards, and file cabinet to this wall. On the door is a beehive with little bees with their names.

My boss found a TON of butterfly wall decals on clearance at Michael's, so that's what you see on the wall. I also hand painted some wooden bugs to hang around the room. In addition, I changed the posters and decor to match the garden theme.

The door to the room with clouds and trees is so much better!

That's the kitchen/dress-up center over there. All the art is at child height, because here it is all about them.

Here is the bookshelf, a nice neutral beige. Blends right in, as it should.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my new classroom! It's been four months since the makeover, and I just got around to photographing the new walls and decorations. Thanks for reading!

Today Was A Good Day

I am truly blessed to have such a good friend as J!  Check out her blog at Just Another Anonymous Witch.  Today she sent me this gigantic box of goodies.  And it was wrapped like a ninja.  I told her she should wrap for the secret service, lol.

Here is everything she sent me in one teeny-tiny-ninja-wrapped box.

A beautiful journal with one of those magnetic closing covers.

Cupcake cuteness inside.

 

Pretty note inside almost made me cry!

She MADE me this necklace. And two turquoise stones came along for the trip.  Awesome!

A super thoughtful coupon.

A purpley purse for all my purple purse needs.

A crap-ton of stamps for crafting.

2 nail polishes, and some makeup samples.

Squee!!! Pens in my favorite colors, pink and turquoise!

A box of stationery.

A totally uplifting book.

Inside the book.

Love you, Jen!

She knows I hate scary stuff.

This purple shirt, no joke, I have been wanting for 2 years. I even have the magazine ad clipping to prove it...somewhere. 

In addition to my bff's awesomeness, I had some postcard stuff too, today.

Here's some of what I sent out:

Here's one I got in return.

PLUS, my 4 year anniversary with my husband was yesterday.  Here's the card he got me.

Bahaahahahaaaaaa

 And Mother's Day is tomorrow, so he got me a Dog Mom card.

Inside:

See? Today was a good day.

Little Bit of Awesome: Killer Vegetables

Look what I found over on Vintagraph today:

Buahahahahah!

Swap-bot: Window Shopper @ Threadless

So far I've only done postcard swaps at Swap-bot.  This one is an email swap, and it doesn't even require postage! Free! And you KNOW how I feel about FREE.

I swap with Swap-bot!

The directions are simple:

Find a bit of spare time and check out Threadless. Choose 10 t-shirt designs from their current catalog that you think are rad and link each of them to your partners via email. 

Here are my favorite 10:

Don't Care Bears

Cookies

Somehow I think it's cuter as a onesie.
Ladies and Gentlebug

Cuter as a hoodie.

Why is an Owl Smart?

This awesome shirt is for all my lil smart peeps: It's cool to read books!

Late Night Barbarian

What Would MacGuyver Do?

Peace

Geekology

Memento Mori

Children of the QWERTY

...aaaand a bonus one because I just couldn't pick 10:

You've Got Some Splaining to Do

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I almost forgot to include the swap members awesome tee links they sent to me! Here are my faves.

From Michelle:

Stick Figures In Peril

Dandy Lions

From Victoria:
I Shower Naked

There's another partner but I haven't heard from her yet.