Currently July 2015

Currently July 
This is my first Currently linky party with Oh Boy Fourth Grade.  It's great to get to know other bloggers and read about them too! So here it goes:

Listening: When I work on the computer silence is good for some things, but other times I just put the t.v. on in the background. Usually to "watch" something that I've already seen so that I don't get too distracted from my task at hand.

Loving: If you had joined the #TPTSellerChallenge on Facebook, I'm sure you agree that it was a wonderful collaboration tool!  It was just the kick in the pants I needed for starting my store and getting things up.  Lots of help and friendly people made it even better!  You can read about my challenges by clicking on the TPTSellerChallenge label on my side bar.  Come back to my blog to ready about my last challenge I'm working on called Follow Frenzy!

Thinking:  I just started making clipart for my TPT store.  I find it a lot of fun and challenging at the same time.  Trying to figure out all the tools, and then
learning new things as you play around with it is pretty cool!

Wanting:  Oh how a Java Chip sounds so good right now!  But I am waiting, and then going to have to maybe do like 2 workouts!  I've been doing the 21 Day Fix workout and when I was full force into it, within 2 months I lost 25lbs!  My goal is to lose another 25lbs by the end of August.  Time to get my butt in gear!  

Needing:  As in another of my posts, I found out that I will be one of the 2 stand alone kindergarten classes out of 6 total.  Last few years our whole school went to departmentalized: ELA/Social Studies and Math/Science.  (Except 3rd and 4th grade inclusion)  I only started teaching K two years ago (coming from 3rd grade for 8 years) so I've never taught them math...not even looked at a teachers manual-let alone had one in my hands!  I am excited though because of all the thematic possibilities and things I can do with a class of my own instead of sharing kids.  (Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed working with my partner the last 2 years! That I will miss, but at least we can still plan together now in a different way.)

All Star:  I love to be creative.  I'm usually the one in groups for PD that does the drawing or writing.  I have a lot of hand drawn anchor charts and I made my own center signs by hand and with my Cricut.  I told some of my co-workers that if there was a job for someone to just make cutesie things for the classroom and draw up anchor charts that people see on Pinterest and such...I would apply in a heartbeat!  I'm also creative with sewing and crafts.  My daughter is wanting me to make her a cos-play outfit for Kingdom Hearts and I've made her a plushie of one of her favorite characters.  My friend taught me how to quilt and I made one with her help for Quilts for Kids, I have another one that I have to work on too.  

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Make Your Masterpiece

Make Your Masterpiece

I have been loving the TPT Seller Challenge, and it's given me the Ok, I know I'm late but I've been working hard on my masterpiece in between daily life.  So, here it is...

Check out my store for these and my apple clip art product!

After debating what type of teacher resource I wanted to make, I decided to make some clip art since I did put that down as one of my DARE TO DREAM points.  I love to do crafts, like sewing, drawing, and scrapbooking, when I get time.  I think the Dare to Dream has put my thought of making clip art more of a reality.  The thought of digital drawing was a little scary since I always had started off mine with pencil.  But once I got to trying, it was a lot of fun!  Lots of getting use to the different media but I'm getting the hang of it.  

So...that brings about my Masterpiece!  I had worked on the butterflies long before, but didn't have the Adobe to secure them properly.  So I ended up signing up for Adobe Cloud, since I would like to also learn more about drawing in Photoshop and Illustrator.  My daughter also seemed interested too since she likes to draw too. 

Find my Butterfly clip art and Back-to-School Supplies up on TPT! I also put up a new Apple clip art set with 40 apples...Go check it out! Click on my TPT link on the sidebar to see my clip art!