jewelry time

man...it has been a long time since i've been on here. i started school last wednesday! i have some awesome and crazy students this year! they are great!

here is our class website... www.mrshamlin.weebly.com

this past saturday, i had the opportunity to go to a vendor fair and sell some of the jewelry i make.  it was a great experience and i did pretty well.

i also had a lady approach me about maybe putting some of my jewelry in her store. i am pretty excited to see how it will do.

here are a couple of the pieces that i have left over from the fair.  i am working on putting them all on etsy now...it just takes a while...ok not really. it takes FOREVER!

here is my etsy site... www.etsy.com/shop/shoppeglitter

i put some up last night and then got tired. hopefully i can get more up this evening after the monster goes to bed.

speaking of the monster...

check out this video i took of him earlier. i can't get him from climbing on things.  i am soooo surprised he hasn't had a broken bone yet.

but i guess that is a boy for ya!

have a great week!

ready for school...not yet!

so i've spent the majority of my morning going through the 275 pins i have on my teaching board! i went through every one of them and printed out all of the things that i want to use this year in my classroom.

if it was a poster then i copied it into Word so i can make it!

talk about a BIG job! it took me about two hours to go through them.  now on to making all of the stuff!

wish me luck!

aprons

i've been spending all of my spare time on little girl aprons for the past two weeks. :)

click here to see the link i found the apron at....i didn't follow all of the directions she gave, i changed a bit as i went along.

i made two of them and completely fell in love so i had to make some more for the vendor fair i am going to in a couple of weeks!

here are the aprons i have made.

can you guess what they are made out of?!?!?

did you guess?

each one is made out of a pot holder and a dish towel...

super easy and i will try to get a tutorial up soon on how to make them!

Cari

free music!!!

so, i was on pinterest today (surprise, surprise) and i found this pin!

i have been downloading songs all day and it is awesome! the songs are free.  all you have to do it go to youtube to get the song and convert it.  anyone can do it!!!!

i went to the blog at the bottom but the page was no longer there. :(

you should give this a try.  i even transfered them over to my itunes.

i can't wait to listen to them over and over again.

mason's room

here are some pics of the monster's room

new curtains...

his new bed skirt...

i still have one more project....pictures for the frames above his bed and on the other side of the window.

his new play area.... i bought an oil drip pan from walmart and spray painted it red to match his room. it is magnetic so i just added some magnetic toys and letters. :)

he LOVES it!!

i framed some book covers

he decided to follow me into his room to play

mad about something...

any happy again!

he loves his room and i am very excited how everything turned out!!!

skirts skirts and more skirts!!!

i've been making some skirts for some friends daughters the past two weeks.  they have turned out great! i found the tutorial to make the circle skirt HERE, and the tutorial to make the other one HERE!

i will post my own tutorials soon! but go ahead and look at the skirts....and the beautiful models! :)


the circle skirt

the other skirt (i haven't figured out a name yet)

she has so much energy. :)




here is another one with different material

mason's first haircut!!

my little monster got his first haircut today! he did such a great job sitting in the chair by himself.  the only time he cried when when i took the sucker away from him for a moment so we could clean his face! :) 

he is growing up so fast! it seems like only yesterday when we brought him home from the hospital and now i am starting to plan his first birthday! oh how time goes by! i wish he would slow down a little bit, i almost can't keep up.

here are some pictures from his haircut!

he would not drop that paci! :) 

 he wanted to know what she was doing back there. :)

he got a sucker when it was all over! :)

smiling with his certificate! :) :)

his certificate that goes in his baby book :)

i'm so proud of how well he did! i love this monster!

spring break baby

i love spring break!!! it is supposed to be a time to relax and enjoy yourself...but i love filling it with different things to do and make.

mason and i just got back from taking pam (my mother in law) to nashville to meet with my father in law.  she came and stayed with us for a week and watched mason while we worked. we drove up sunday morning and met at the opry land mall. :)

did i mention i HATE car rides? i forgot my camera on this trip but i had my phone! :)

heading to nashville

Mason pretending he doesn't care he is in a pink stroller.

i also HATE traffic

this is how fast we were going on i-65

we are back to KENTUCKY!

after we got back to nana and papaw's house, the next day we left for cincinnati! 



we went to the hotel first and then went out to eat. after that we went back to the hotel to swim in the pool!

my papaw loves maps...i prefer gps!

the air conditioner became a babysitter...

he loved the air blowing on him.

Nana and Papaw!

he hated being in the pool...

but loved watching from the side. :)

chelsey with the macaw on her shoulder

mommy and the monster in front of the elephants

i love this picture of mackenzie

enjoying a train ride at the zoo

ending the day with a giant hamburger!

we had a great time at the zoo! i think next time we will take a shorter trip to the louisville zoo to see the animals.  cincinnati zoo was great but there was a lot of walking for the few animals we did see.  the girls and mason both had fun and to me that is what matters.