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Monday Made It – Packing & Peaches
I love Mondays! It’s partly because it’s the day for one of my favorite linky parties, Monday Made It. But Monday is also a fresh start…a clean slate…the time to get your week off on a good note! One task this weekend was making copies of the outline for the Books You Can Count On workshop I’m presenting Friday in Tampa. The outline gives participants an organized spot to jot down notes during the workshop. The bigger task I had was to pack everything needed for my presentation. Oh, and let’s get it all in one suitcase since we’re flying! I’m travelling with quite a variety of props…plastic apples, clothespins, mini pocket charts, magic gold beans, and a frying…
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Monday Made It – Shirts & Aprons
I’ve always wished I could sew like my mother. However, I didn’t inherit her talent so I tend to use Stitch Witchery or hot glue on most of my sewing projects. Good thing my Monday Made It projects didn’t test my seamstress skills too much! If all my “to do” projects were as quick as this one was…I’d be done! I saw a cute Pete the Cat counting activity here and knew I had to make it for my kids, too! I had some of the felt pieces already and ran up to Hobby Lobby for a couple more. Then, all I had to do was print the shirt pattern. Pinned the paper…
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Monday Made It – Sharing Bag
I marked two school projects off my To Do List last week but added at least a dozen more! Thank goodness for Monday Made It! It provides us with ideas, inspiration, and incentive to get it all done! My first Made It was somewhat of a re-do on a previous project. Remember when I printed new my sight word cards? They looked like this… Well, I loved how they looked and I was just getting ready for the next step to mount and laminate them when I had a major thought. As I was trying to decide which color cardstock to use, I started thinking it would be nice if they…