Back to School Time

This year inspired by old time vintage teaching.
Learning through Exploration

Next week , I'll be headed back to school.It will be a week of filled meetings, trainings, and getting ready for the up and coming new school year.

The Five Things I love about teaching-

1. Every year I learn about a zillion new things along with the children. I learn from my mistakes and reflect on how to make the next year better and brighter.

2. Watching a child grow before your eyes both intellectually, physcially, and emotionally.

3. Trying new things.

4. The adventure of it all.

5. The kids of course

I hope to post an OOTD ( outfit of the day). Thats if I can find a photographer.

Bye for now-erin

Oh Man- sorry

I have no excuse on why I haven't blogged. I have the time, and energy but just get consumed with other things that doesn't involve the computer. I've been thrifting on limited funds, and intend to post about 5o or so items on etsy, when I get up the guts to spend a few hours on the computer uploading the photos. 

I did go to the beach and here's the picture- it was fun, I love looking for shells and making sand castles the best, you wouldn't be able to tell with the look on my face-

making bread- the old fashion way

Yesterday- after posting about my summer time blues I decided to make old fashion bread. Since I have time on my hands I could do it. Making bread the old fashion way means waiting 45 minutes kneading, waiting 45 minutes kneading, waiting 45 minutes kneading. It seems like a lot of work, however the pay off is the most yummy bread in the world. Even though I goofed the recipe, it came out awesome. Now here's a little secret about me..................I am the worlds MESSEST cook- the kitchen looked like a disaster but who cares, I certainly don't ( ha ha)  oh= I also watched a few DIY vid's on t shirt cutting and decided to try it. It was wonderful

Heres a pic of the bread loaves- to me it looks like lungs or something- love it

Homemade Bread looks like lungs or boobs , you decide

DIY t shirt cutting project

SUMMERTIME BLUES

me, the dork posing for my etsy store I hate it!!!

leather purse with beaded detail

Sorry about the long stretch without a post. I have come down with a serious case of the summertime blues. I think it might of started coming on when my bank account was empty, the idea of going back to work is creeping up, and I'm just plain bored.   To counter the summer boredom feeling , I am volunteering twice a week, teaching art and tutoring reading. I walk my dogs everyday, maybe twice. I've been attending ZUMBA every night. That is getting old too.  Taking pictures to eventually post my vintage crap on etsy. But I'm not really happy with the photos of the items, the camera doesn't give the items justice. Oh well.   

my teenager swimming at the neighbors pool

   

Now a brighter note about summer and life-
My son is attending summer school so he's busy, I like that.
My house is clean, a upside to the boredom. Me and my pups get lots of exercise. I will soon have room in my thrifted closet if I sell stuff on etsy. I've painted my nails a bunch of times. The garden is growing, and we will soon have lots of fresh organic veggies. I can spend time with my grumpy old man. And the birds have been singing really pretty songs outside my window. Last but not least, I made a funny video I may post.

a clean kitchen, this is rare and only documented once in a while

Silk worm update- a few have died, because they couldn't make a cocoon fast enough, I think they may have been over crowded, so I moved some. I hope it works.

Vintage ART decor



Colorful still life in the hallway

Pansy painting

 Here is a little glimpse of a few of the vintage paintings around my home. I enjoy them I hope you will too!

paint by numbers butterflies

test for pics

Silk worms, mankinds dark and dirty secret

Hi- This post is going to be about SILK and silkworms. I am currently raising silkworms to have in my classroom next year. Over the last month I've learned a lot about these little creatures, and about silk in general.

1. Silkworms have been adapted and changed over the thousands of years, so they cannot live outside captivity. They will die.

2. To make silk, they kill the pupua before the complete metamorphosis by puting the cocoon in boiling water.

3. It takes a silkworm 3-4 days to make a silk cocoon, and it is a continuous silk thread about a mile long.

4.The silk is their saliva that hardens when exposed to air.

5. silk worms cannot fly, they only live for about 4 days, reproduce then die. The cycle begins again.

Here is my thoughts about silk, and the process. How depressing that Humans have altered a wonderful creature, for profit and fabric. At first I was like:  " NO WAY i'm NEVER going to wear silk AGAIN" then my mom said " Wait if you don't wear silk, then what will happen to them, they will vanish" This sounds like a ( catch twenty-two, a rock in a hard place, a dilemma) What to do. I will teach about silk worms next year. I remember, learning about silk worms in 3rd grade but I don't remember my teacher telling us about mankind's dirty little secret. I think I will tell the whole story about silk, the worms, and the intervention of humans. I believe an 8 year old should know the vast capablities WE have to change animals and our environment.    TOODLES erin