Lessons With Coffee

I actually made this quite a while ago...>But never got around to blogging about it. I wanted to make hall passes because I HATE WRITING OUT PASSES.  We have a no pass policy at our school "unless it is an emergency."  I am a believer that if it is your time (ie, I am not teaching and you are not taking a test...) and you need to go to the bathroom, who am I to stop you? So I decided to make some uber cute passes. I got my supplies...You might recognize some of them from my birthday sign.  A plank, three (actually 4 but I knew I only wanted three) small planks for the passes, paint, brushes, wood cut outs, three pegs. I painted the main plank blue when I was painting my birthday sign.   I used the Martha Stewart Spray Paint Kit to make it blue in a jiffy. THen I painted my hooks. These were actually a pain in the ass to paint.  Then I glued them on.  I just used good old fashioned ELMERS GLUE ALL since I knew ...

Hey all. BTS hit me like a freight train.  Also with my trip. ENGLAND PICTURES TO COME LATER. I got super sick on the way home from England and have not recovered.   They have me on a super crazy drug that makes me super ridiculously tired and also EVERY SINGLE JOINT IN MY BODY is aching! One of my favorite IG gals( TwentySomethingTeacher! ) featured me in her little blog on Friday so I thought I should actually post something NOT related to SLANT. Teacher Fashion.  I like to think of myself as a pretty stylish gal.  I RARELY pay full price for things. You can find me shopping at these stores on a regular basis: One of my very best girlfriends that I never get to see anymore because her store has EXPLODED started this shop in a modest little location in St. Paul.  To my delight she has just announced that she and her business partner (another gal I like to call a good friend) their SIXTH location in the Twin Cities.  ...