Monday Made It - August 1st

Hey everyone! I was kind of hoping that baby boy would make his appearance already so that he could be Made It #1, but he's still hanging out. I'm exactly 39 weeks today. One week til my due date!! Big sister Zoe is getting pretty excited to meet him and so are we!!

Well while I am waiting for little mister to get out of me, I'm linking up with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics for her weekly Monday Made It!

Even though I am currently on mat leave, I never stop thinking about school or buying cute things for school. Well the last few times I was at Michael's I saw this adorable tip-out drawer unit in pink and teal. I thought it would make a perfect little teacher tool box. The first few times I resisted buying it. By the third trip though, I had to have it. I bought it with a 50% off coupon and made these cute chalkboard labels to go on them. I had some interest on Facebook and Instagram, so I thought I would share the labels with you. You can find editable labels for free {here}. Make sure when you print them, you un-click "Scale to Fit Paper" so they are exactly the right size for the toolbox! :) 

I always loved having my polka-dotted "Where Are We?" posters hanging outside our classroom door so that parents, specialists, or anyone else could find us in the school! The only thing that bugged me was it didn't match my classroom decor anymore, so I made a new version in my Chalkboard & Brights theme! I can't wait to hang these up!!! (Next year.... when I'm done mat leave.... lol)

My next two made-its are not school related. I've been busy getting the nursery already for baby boy. The first project was recovering the cushions on my glider. I was never a big fan of the light pink, but it worked fine in Zoe's room. When I brought it into the baby's grey nursery, I just couldn't leave it pink!! I had some grey fabric that I bought for a DIY headboard that never got made, so I used it to recover the glider cushions. I love how it turned out!!

I had ordered fabric to make some curtains for our new house way back in November, but I finally just got around to sewing some of them. I found this awesome tutorial from Two Twenty One on how to make tabbed black out curtains. I made some pink polka-dotted curtains for Zoe's room to match her Minnie Mouse bedding.

Then I made some navy chevron curtains for baby boy's room. I am loving how his nursery turned out. My husband is a big Winnipeg Jets fan, so we did a hockey/Jets themed nursery. It's pretty cute if I do say so myself!

Well that's it for me! I've got a few TpT products on the go that I am hoping to get up by the end of the summer, but we will see how that goes! I'm sure life once baby gets here will be a little on the crazy side! ;)

Oh, but don't forget that there is a big TpT sale going on right now! Today and tomorrow everything in my store is 20% off and you get an extra 10% off when you use the promo code: BestYear. Happy Shopping!

Makeover Madness

Have you heard about the TpT Seller Challenge? It is being hosted by the ladies over at Sparkling in Second, Teach Create Motivate, Third in Hollywood, and Peppy Zesty Teacherista. Each week they will have a challenge for TpT sellers! SOunds like fun--I'm always up for a challenge!

Here are my stats from Sunday. Don't look at my Twitter. I never use it. I'm not sure if I want to use it yet, either. Although my school now has a Twitter account, so maybe?

So the first challenge is makeover madness. We have to give one of our products a makeover. I decided to do my "Where Are We? Hanging Mini-Posters". I love this pack and I found the cards so helpful to let parents, specialists, and other staff know where the class is at all times. I decided to give the product a little makeover, because I have some new Melonheadz clipart that works better for some of the locations! Here's a peek at some of the little changes:

 I am slowly changing up my products covers to include my new name and blog domain!

If you already bought this pack, go back to your purchases on TpT and redownload the updated pack for free. If you have not checked this one out, head to TpT by clicking the picture below. It will be on sale until Friday!!

Hall Pass Freebies and Where Are We? Mini-Posters {Plus a Giveaway!}

If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen this picture of my awesome Oriental Trading loot that came in the mail last week. I got some awesome Dr. Seuss cut outs, some fun fish counters, an inflatable campfire (have been dying for this forever!!), a cute treasure box, a fun word work centre, tooth keeper necklaces (144 for $7.25!!), and some bright colourful lanyards.

The lanyards I bought because I wanted to make some hallway passes. I like the idea of a lanyard when students go to the bathroom because they don't have to hold on to it while they go! Yuck! :) The pack I bought has 6 fun, bright colours. I made two bathroom passes, a telephone pass, and a water fountain pass.

The other two I used for a fire drill class last. I saw this idea on Pinterest, to keep the lanyard by my door and have my class list on the back, so it's easy to grab when I'm heading out the door.

The final lanyard I made for myself is a classroom management trick I'm going to try next year. My new school is a K-9 school, so we have the juniour high sports teams and our school mascot is a Bengal. Well I just happened to have a cute stuffed tiger (an adopted pet from WWF) that I decided was going to be Benji the Bengal. I'm going to pass out Benji Bucks to students for good behaviour. Those tickets will go into a bucket and each day I'll pull out a ticket and that student gets to be Benji's Caretaker. They get to keep the stuffy for the day and wear the badge. I think this will be a fun motivator for students!

Now, I know not many of you are going to have a "Benji Caretake" in your class, so I have added a "Nurse Pass" to the collection of hallway passes because I know a lot of schools down south have nurses. I have made these passes a freebie, so click {here} to download.

Now keeping with my fun, colourful theme, I wanted to create a set of "Where Are We?" posters to hang outside my new classroom. I just adore Melonheadz clipart and I had the perfect sets to create these fun posters. I always have my special helper change it whenever we head somewhere in the school. These posters are two-to-a-page. I print them out on cardstock, laminate them, and hang them on a ring outside my classroom door. Click the picture to check out the poster at TpT.

As I logged into blogger to put this post together, I glanced at my stats and noticed I had 700 followers! Wow! I can't believe my little blog reaches that many people! So as a thank you, I am having a little giveaway! For 700 followers, you can win 7 items! Your choice of any seven items from my TpT store. Just enter on the Rafflecopter before Sunday at midnight and you can win! Good luck!

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