The Bailey Daily

I made a cute chalk board for Gabi's teacher.  Her name is Bailey, so I called it The Bailey Daily.  I loved how it turned out. 

I found the chalk board at Target on clearance from St. Patrick's Day a few years back.  I spray painted it first, since it was bright green.  Than modge podged it with paper.  Topped off with a few flowers, and the title. 

I used that cute font Too Much Paper that I made the name frames with, darling font!  I think I used that font a ton this holiday season for stuff.  I think I like that it's a nice solid shape, and it uses paper!  Gotta love using paper up when you hoard it as much as I do. 

I used a pack of 12x24 inch paper that I found at Joann's ages ago by Die Cuts With A Few.  The out lining part of the chalk board was larger than 12 inches wide.  Made it easier to fill in the top part of the frame.  The paper bubbled a little, it's kinda glossy. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Altered St. Patty's Chalk Board

So, this is my final teacher's gift. I hope I'm not boring you all with this stuff! But it's that time of the year! This was a fabulous find at Target back in April. I stalked a few local Target to get three of these suckers. They were made for St. Patty's day, but when they went on Clearance, I waited and waited until they hit 75% off. Random tidbit, I used to work for Target and was over their clearance, so I know how low it'll go! I stalk the racks, and love finding good deals. I had to paint over the bright green, which I did with spray paint. Than I covered it with K and Co cardstock. It was a touch bigger than 12 inches, so I had to kinda layer up the ends, hoping to hide it with the pattern. Than I added some flowers, and ribbon. I hope her teacher will love it. I have another one to make for me!

Mrs. Day's Teacher Gift Book

Here is the other teacher gift I was working on this week. We made a questionnaire for Gabi's teacher, sent it home with the kids for them to fill out. Than they sent it back in with a photo. I went in on Friday to get hand prints from them, and turned those hand prints into an animal of some kind.

I didn't come up with idea on my own. A parent in Trey's class saw it at our local amusement park, and copied the idea. I saw the book, and thought it was darling, and had to make it for Gabi's teacher. The first graders had such funny answers for their teacher. The third graders were super smart and really knew their teacher well!

I was planning on using my bind it all to bind it, but couldn't get it to work well. I think my binding was too thin. But on top of that, I had an awful time matching up a letter size page. I had to bind 24 pages laminated pages. I heard the new pink one was easier for lining up like I needed to do today. Anyone have the pink one? I was planning to have ribbons all over the left side, and instead I had to tie it all together. Wasn't happy about part, but as I told Paul, the prize is inside. I just think it would have looked cuter with the wire binding, and ribbons. I may try to alter that part after we give her the book on Friday. I'd have to get some bigger rings to put on there.

The scissors are covering the children's photos, so not part of the final product! These are just a few of the animals we made. We also had a butterfly, a fish, and a turtle. I added the faces and stuff. Don't I do great artwork?! Looks just like something a third grader would make!

The cover was made with PTI's stamp set. The sentiment reads, To Teach is to touch the future. I went with greens because sage green was her teacher's favorite color. Greens are Wild Wasabi, garden green, and sage shadow. Naturally, had to top off the apples with some stickles.

I felt the heart print on the cover followed the theme in the book well, and the sentiment about touching the future was perfect with the hand prints as well. On top of that, the other moms are making a big tote bag, with her name engraved on it, and covered with the kids hand prints! Everything tied in so nicely!

Totally Adorable Teacher Gift

I spoke about Gabi's dance instructor in my last post. One major thing these two share together is a love of socks. I guess her teacher looks at all the socks before they change into shoes, so the girls love to show off new socks. Once her car broke down, and was stranded. She was wandering around a store, and saw some socks, and brought them because she was like, Gabi will like these. Gave them to her and her friend the next time they had dance. (She gave the other girls in the class flowers.) I knew I wanted to give her a bunch of socks as a gift, but kinda boring to just shove them in a bag. Than I remembered passing along a link I had seen on Lauren Meader's blog for her Bun in the Oven, and she had a how to on making a cupcake out of socks! Genius idea! Totally went with it and ran. I grabbed a ton of socks at Walmart and Target, and got to making cupcakes. While I was at Target, I discovered a cute cupcake pan, with lid with it. Now, a mom of six must make cupcakes often! So, I grabbed it. The end result of this project is darling! I showed it to Gabi, and she thought it was too cute! I can't wait to give this to her teacher. It has 18 pairs of socks in it! Isn't this a perfect way to share socks with her? Look at the two in the center, they look like they got cherries on top! I sprinkled some Martha Christmas glitter on top.

I have a few teacher projects to do, and show case in the next few days. Those with young children in school will want to see this book I discovered that another mother made. We made it for Gabi's third grade teacher because we thought it was so cute. I'm working on finishing it up in the next day or two, so be on the look out for that! I know I'm always looking for fun ideas for teachers for the end of the year, or even Christmas, so I hope you all enjoy seeing the projects.