Saturday, August 17, 2013

Before, After, and Pin-it-to-win-it

I’m exhausted. Seriously exhausted.

I haven’t read a single blog since Monday. I haven’t even looked at Bloglovin’ to see how many unread posts I have now.

Monday was a rough day back. I was overwhelmed by my classroom. The computers are here, but the tables I picked won’t come in until the end of September. The work order to update the electric sockets and data ports was put in back in June, but they haven’t done it yet. Without electricity, I have iMacs waiting in boxes. We were still sorting out the SMART board, so it obviously wasn’t ordered yet.

Monday night I baked cookies and decided that Tuesday was going to be a better day.

I couldn’t change furniture/technology that was not going to be there on time, so I decided to focus on what I could do. Up first was the purple cabinets. I could not live with the purple cabinets.

New Room5

The picture does not tell the tale of just how bad they were before. The blue makes me happy. The polka dots help hide the imperfections in these very old doors.

New Room1

On the other side of the room is the kiln in a metal cage. I won’t even tell you how many people asked which kids I’d planned to keep in there.

New Room2

I used a bungee cord and curtains I already owned to take care of the cage-like doors. The cart holds crayons. I found it on clearance for $31 at Michaels. I used my color cards to label the drawers. I also have the world’s largest tub of old crayons in my room. I had some students help start to sort the crayons by color. It did not even start to make a dent in the world’s largest tub of old crayons.

New Room6

I brought my kids with me two nights last week. The first night I was coating the cabinets in Mod Podge. I sent my pint-sized helpers outside to paint the stools with water. My oldest also helped sort crayons. The second night they made wood bead necklaces. I kept the wood beads around just for that purpose!

Here are a few more ‘Before and After’ shots.

New Room3

On either side of the board will a big table with 12 iMacs each. You will have to use your imagination for now.

New Room

The GIANT blue cabinet was too big to fit out the door. It must have been assembled in the room. I SO was happy to see it go! I have my owl rug in place and am just waiting for the SMART board to arrive.

Looking back at all the “Before and After” pictures I can tell just why I am so exhausted!
I’d planned to take final pictures of my room on Friday when I left, but they’d just moved in a giant laser color printer. It is a monster, but a monster I’m thrilled to have in my room! It won’t be set up until Monday. For now, I have a giant box.

For now it is family fun for the weekend. Miraculously everyone is napping, so I have time to look at TpT and to plan for the big sale tomorrow. I’m giving feedback and looking back at my wish list.
I recently updated my “Who am I?” pack. I’m happy with how it turned out!

WhoAmIDisguise

As a reward for making it through the longest post ever, let’s play pin-it-to-win-it. Here’s how we’ll play. Pin any of my products to Pinterest and leave the link to the pin below. Monday night after my kids go to bed I will use a random number generator to pick a number and that person will win the prize they pinned. You may pin as many as you want and each will count as a different entry.

Enjoy your weekend!

18 comments:

  1. I LOVE your pictures! I especially love the cabinets you painted - genius!

    Here is my first Pin it to Win it entry: http://pinterest.com/pin/252272016600361002/

    Rae
    Mindful Rambles

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    1. Another: http://pinterest.com/pin/252272016600361008/

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    2. Last one: http://pinterest.com/pin/252272016600361011/

      :) Thanks!!!

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  2. Here is my link http://pinterest.com/pin/437341813785188780/

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  3. Here is another
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  4. Here is another one.
    http://pinterest.com/pin/437341813785188798/

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  5. Love this Who Am I activity! We did a guessing activity last year, and a couple of parents were stumped!

    http://pinterest.com/pin/442126888389223556/

    tokyoshoes at hotmail dot com

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  6. My students love QR codes, so this would be great for my stronger students!

    http://pinterest.com/pin/442126888389223653/

    tokyoshoes at hotmail dot com

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  7. And this addition version would be perfect for us, too!

    http://pinterest.com/pin/442126888389223659/

    tokyoshoes at hotmail dot com

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  8. http://pinterest.com/pin/199565827211166339/

    Would be fantastic activity. Can't wait to win it!

    Toni Nicholson
    chief9937@Yahoo.com

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    Toni Nicholson
    chief9937@Yahoo.com

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  10. http://pinterest.com/pin/199565827211166353/

    Toni Nicholson
    chief9937@Yahoo.com

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  11. love the color combo's you used http://pinterest.com/pin/66217056994685252/

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  12. very cute and refreshed look http://pinterest.com/pin/66217056994685268/

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  13. love the creativity http://pinterest.com/pin/66217056994685279/

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  14. fresh new look http://pinterest.com/pin/66217056994685285/

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  15. makes the room look so much bigger love it http://pinterest.com/pin/66217056994685293/

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  16. great activity http://pinterest.com/pin/66217056994685305/

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