Wedding, Retirement, Chalk Paint and TpT listing! {finally}

Greeting everyone! Gosh. I've had some big changes in the last six months! My baby got married,

 I retired from teaching, and I started lots of fun projects from home! My husband and I look for awesome junk stuff, and then decide how to make it better. Sometimes we actually leave it as is, sometimes we chalk paint it, and sometimes we turn it into something else! Here are a few pictures of some things we have done:

If you would like to see more please come visit me at

I will also be continuing to list some things in my TpT Store, which I will eventually start blogging about on The Robin's Nest Designs, instead of this blog so that I can have everything in one place.

Here is my current listing:

I hope you are having a wonderful summer!

Yes I Am Still HeRe! Classroom Decor/Storage.

Gosh it has been so long since I posted . . .I have suffering a bad case of the "tireds" and the "blahs".  Have you ever experienced this? Low energy, lack of sleep, blah, blah, blah . . .I'm sure you know the story. 

Anyway, I am trying to pull out of it and get back with my routine! I am starting this by actually posting something!

I have 26 students this year and they are a super cute class. How is your year going?

I took some photos of the classroom and I want to share them with you today!

Our Math Journal

Our Writing Journal

Our Desk Totes

Extra Crayons

Our Daily Work Binder

Our Writing Folders

Rules Display

Scoreboards for Whole Brain Teaching

Writers Workshop/Word Work Storage

Math Board

Schedule and Rules

Reading Nook for Daily Leader and Helper

Have a great week and I will try to get with the program! :)

New Classroom Blog Design and Daily Task Form

Happy Friday Gang! I hope you had a nice week. We have had snow and cold here with lots of indoor recess due to extremely cold temperatures. I wanted to share that I recently had a new blog design done for my classroom blog by Honey Bunch Blog Design. They are awesome gals to work with! They have also done my personal blogs for me. . .

I also wanted to share a little form I made that I use each day to help me keep on track with the most critical tasks of the day. . .

Click here to download

Have a great weekend!!

Classroom Pics Galore

Hey everyone! We are back from our awesome 10 day vacation to San Francisco! Super fun, but isn't home    always the best place to be?! I really should have made a list of the things that I still needed to do upon returning because now . . .I have no idea what I had planned before we left. Have you ever experienced this? Complete mental fog. :) I basically had most of my room ready ahead of time, but it is all of those 100 little things that we all have on those ongoing lists. Do you know what I mean? I think teachers always have one of those mental lists going. 

Anyway, while my brain is trying to catch up with the real world, I spent today working on some arranging in my classroom. I am including some pics in the post. Sorry they aren't the best . . .

I also have a picture of my finished binder and plan book

I have listed a new color scheme of my Teacher Notebook Dividers and Calendar in my TpT Store.

Here is a peek . . .

Here is the link

Have a wonderful evening! Have you been watching the Olympics?