Monday Made It {Home, Labels & Freebie Style}

Where is this summer going?!?! EEK! I was just checking my summer project list and have a noticed I am a little a lot off track. But, I am completely okay with that. This week got a little wacky since I was in class all week and so when I got home all I wanted to do was hang out with this cutie!

So here are my Monday Made Its that I have linked back up with 4th Grade Frolics!

 

One of my personal goals this summer was to cook a new meal each week. I am happy to report, I did just that on Saturday night and it was delicious!! I bought a pork tenderloin because it was on sale. Let's face it, meat is expensive so I buy what is on sale for the week and make do. I googled a crock pot meal because seriously that is way easier then slaving over the stove all day. I found a fun cooking blog with a delicious recipe. I made a Balsamic Pork Tenderloin with roasted potatoes and a salad. This meal was so good it made it on the list. You know the list that says this was good enough that I would eat it again! Sadly, I did not take a picture but I am just not a food photographer so this picture will do it better justice! This picture is from Add a Pinch and you can grab the recipe while you are there!

My second Monday Made It was for that cute little boy's room. This was a Pinspired project! I was so proud of myself to make the stripes on the background and not just go buy digital paper. (My wallet  husband thanks me.) I have a deep respect for those of that can create digital papers and clip art because I just do not have the patience for that. So these stripes made me super excited. And thank goodness for KG Fonts! I made them as 8x10 prints and now I just have to go shopping to find the perfect frames for
these bad boys! :)

 

According to my calender my classroom library should be organized, labeled and ready for the first day of school. HAHA, yeah that has so not happened. I have sorted through all of my little readers and have those ready to go but I have not even attempted my thematic books for my classroom library.  

I am organizing my library in 4 parts this year. I will have a thematic books, topic books, 100 Book Challenge and have a leveled area (by number). This will be an area for my students to find books that are close to their level. It will hold those little tiny readers that are hard to place in a thematic area. My hope is that it will give my students a small selection of book baskets to choose a "just right" book. They will be able to get 3-5 leveled books, 3-5 100 BC books and 3-5 thematic books to place in their book baskets.  l love for them to have TONS of books in their book baskets for "read to self time." So these number labels are for my leveled library area.  I am in LOVE with the black glittery ribbon I am using to attach these labels! For all of my fabulous followers you can grab this set here for FREE..available in black & white backgrounds!

Make sure you hope over and check out all the other awesome Monday Made It Projects! 

Check out my Monday Made It Projects from this summer here!

 

Monday Made It {Spray Paint Style}

Do you know how hard it is to find Satin Island Splash Spray Paint?! I have been working on these projects for a while but ran out of spray paint and it has taken 2 weeks, 5 stores and a phone call before finding the last bottle and asking them to hold it until the morning. I will be stalking the stores to stock up on this spray paint bottle though because I am sure there will be more projects to be completed and this color is just wayyy to perfect! Without further ado my Monday Made It Projects....

 

I am just in love with these frames from Michaels! I picked them up a while ago and have been completing some various projects around the house and still have several so I knew just what to do! I added my classroom spray paint color and jazzed them up and I am using them to display my classroom rules. I still have a few more frames with a couple ideas in my head of what I am going to do with them. You can read more about my classroom rules and why I am going in this direction here!

 

My next project is Pinterest Inspired and has been on my to-do list for a looooong time. I found these perfect letters at Hobby Lobby 50% off, for a grand total of $4.00 for 4 letters! They are the paper mache letters so extremely lightweight and can hang anywhere! Added my favorite spray paint color and ta-da! Sorry for the shadow and bad lighting but I was so excited to cross this off my list. :)

 

I took my old First Day of Kindergarten Frame (was not feeling the color) jazzed it up with the pretty blue paint and ta-da!! Don't you just love the glittery letters?!

 My last one has nothing to do with spray paint because lets face it, it would be gross. I am in love with these roasted potatoes and they are so easy. We had these for dinner Sunday Night with some grilled chicken and yummy pasta salad. MMMM. Just cut up your red potatoes, toss them in olive oil season with some salt & pepper bake at 350 for about 45 minutes and them ENJOY!!! I told you it is easy and a family favorite!

Don't forget to hop back over to 4th Grade Frolics for the rest of the Monday Made Its!

Deck, Back to School Brochures and Shopping {Monday Made It!}

I am linking back up with 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made it! This linky party has kicked my rear in high gear. My summer calendar is filled with summer projects to hopefully make it a little easier when I go back in August to set back up and to add some homieness  to our new house!

 

I have been busy this last week with lots of projects around the house and some little mini school projects have been marked off!

Okay so this isn't really a made but more like an assembled. We finally got a patio set for our deck!! I am in LOVE. It has a tile table and 6 comfy chairs. Thank goodness for a handy husband, helpful dad and my mom for helping us to pick it up and assemble it!

 The best part...it was marked way down. Thank goodness for sales!! Now I will have to have my detective eyes working to find a cute umbrella for our table Have you seen any great deals? Let me know!

 

Okay I confess this also isn't really a made it but more like a did it! If you have been following me on Instagram, you have seen many of these pictures and great finds!

 

I found most of these awesome deals at Dollar Tree. Lots of buckets, sight word dice and other great finds! Click here if you would like to read more about each item and where I found it!

 

 

I also found some great steals and perfect items for my classroom at Big Lots. 3 Big Lots stalking trips laterand I think I got it all! 28 magazine buckets, 12 baskets for classroom library and some cute blue storage containers. I think I have finished my organization shopping trips this summer. Is anyone else just do addicted to Back to School shopping? I am pretty sure I enjoy this and school crafts way more than crafty for my house

 

This week I have been working on creating Back To School Brochures. I am so excited about these as an alternative and better way than having lots of papers for papers for them to keep up with. So far I have created a jungle, ocean and owl back to school theme. I still have a few free ones up for grabs and ways to request other designs! Read more here!

 

 

 

 What fun things hav eyou done this week around the house or getting ready for Back to School? Share below!

Monday Made It! FREEBIE ALERT!

I have fallen in love with Monday Made It over at 4th Grade Frolics! It is keeping me on almost on track with my projects this summer. I am trying very hard to spread my projects out over the summer instead of trying to tackle it all the week before school starts!

 

Did  you read my post from Five for Friday and wonder what was in that mystery package?? Well here it is!!

 

First up, you know those (ugly) sentence strips that are hung on walls. I have a love hate relationships with those suckers. They are at the just perfect level for every kid that comes by to rub their shoulders across, crumple paper on the strip and many times rip the work off the wall. I hate stapling work on it for that very reason. The staples just help the hole get even bigger on the student's work and you just have staples on over your border on the strip. I would really love to take that down and have a HUGE bulletin board in its place. But, since that is not possible I have been working on jazzing up some clothespins to add to my sentence strip to hang up student work. My hope is even if it falls off the strip it won't get ripped with the staples and it will add a little jazz to the strip!

 

So I ordered some silver, sparkly washi tape and mini clothespins. I chose the silver washi tape so no matter what color border I have up, it will pop and it will work for every season. I modged podged the wash tape on the clothespin and then hot glued a push pin to the back to make it easy to put on the sentence strip. It was fairly easy..took about an hour...I think I'm liking it...

 

 

 

My Terms of Use page needed some jazzing up so while I was procrastinating on some cleaning I gave it a facelift! The graphics are thanks to A Bird in Hand Designs and the frame is from The 3AM Teacher. Love their work!

 

 

And last, I finally got around to finishing my Kindergarten Journal to monitor growth as a writer for a year. I am so excited about using this resource next year. I still need to print it out and bind it into a book. Each student will have their own book to complete a writing piece each month. This will allow me to monitor progress with their writing and illustrations, be a great tool for RTI and make a great End of Year gift. Wowzers, getting a long of bang for one project!

 

I have always had writing folders and journals that go home at the end of the year but I am excited about having this one book that you can quickly see how the students have grown over each month!

 

To celebrate completing this product, I have made my First Day of Kindergarten Page a FREEBIE! Wahoo! Click here to get The First Day of Kindergarten Page! Would LOVE some feedback! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are some fun projects that you have made this summer? Share below!

Lunch Trips, Amazon, Storms Oh My! Five for Friday!

 

Today I am linking up with Doodle Bugs to share 5 random things from this week!

 

 

 I love summer because Andrew and I can meet up with my hubby for lunch. With his crazy schedule (gotta love the firefighter life) it is so nice to squeeze in some extra time. Today we met up with his crew for Mexican. YUM! Then Andrew got to (pretend) drive the firefighter truck. Love making memories!

 

 

 

 

I placed an order on Amazon a few days ago and it FINALLY arrived!!!

 

 

What's in the box you ask?? You will never know! JUST KIDDING!! :) But, you will have to wait for another day. Inside holds some supplies that I think I need to make a craft idea that has been on mine. Check back in a few days and hopefully it was be completed! So excited!!

 

 

 

A few days ago, a terrible thunderstorm   wind storm micro burst slammed our house. It was terrifying! I was home by myself with Andrew except he was sleeping and I was on the other side of the house. To get to him I had to go through our kitchen and family room which the whole back wall is WINDOWS!! Looking outside, all I could see was leaves swirling and it even just looked grey and you could hear and see the hail slamming the house! This was by far one of the worst storms I have seen in a long time. In fact, it didn't even feel safe to sitting in the house in front of windows so we took shelter in the bathroom. No worries, Andrew was content playing with toilet paper....boys! Thankfully we are okay, lots of hail and trees down everywhere. In fact several of our neighbors have shattered windows from the hail and  a few miles down the road a house caught on fire. Apparently, the worst part of the storm hit right on top of our neighborhood looking at radar.

 

 

 

I brought home all of my classroom books for my student library in a buckets and I am certain that it is just going to organize itself, right?! Need to find some cute baskets and make some fun labels and then I can start this job! It was in desperate need of some organization after I bought so many new books this year!

 

And last, I am enjoying daily naps, indulging in Real Housewives of Orange County and staying up way later than I would eve think to do during the school year!

 

 

So what have you been up to? Comment below or link up with Doodle Bugs!

 

 

 

 

Workin' on it Wednesday!

Today, I am linking up with KinderGals for Workin' on it Wednesday!

 

 

I love summertime! Not because I am not working but because I have time to actually work! In a few weeks, one of my best friends is getting married and I need to get serious about getting healthy dropping some pounds and getting a tan! Thank goodness for my neighborhood, a stroller and an easy going baby. I am drinking my large glass of water, making yummy green smoothies and walking every day. Maybe I will step it up to running with the stroller, NAH!

 

 

I am also working on not neglecting my social networking sites! Do you know that I set up my instagram account ONE YEAR AGO and then let it go to waste?!? What was I thinking! Now, I cannot imagine not posting something to instagram. I have become addicted! If you have an instagram account click on the picture to follow me or click here!  You can find the rest of my social networking sites at the top right of this page. I love connecting with friends, bloggers and internet friends this way!!

 

 

And it wouldn't be summer with out daily trips to Target, Hobby Lobby, Michaels and all other craft supply stores. I have made many trips and have some fun projects on my to do list. First up, I am making a new 1st Day of 5K Frame! The one I have been using needs some sprucing up and I honestly I just feel like update it. :) I bought a wood cut out frame at Michaels and some spray paint. This is a work in progress. Still needs a lot of some dazzle to bling it up. I still have time to make it work!



 

There are a few other projects I am working on creating in my head and hope to get them started next week!

So what are you workin on this Wednesday? Leave a comment below and/or Link up with Kim and Megan at KinderGals Linky Party!