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I just finished doing something I haven't done in years. I made some stuff. :)
I had found some yummy scrapbook papers to inspire me back into designing (and it worked), and I found this one paper that I really LOVE. I decided to decoupage the paper onto some wooden letters that spell out my name. :)
Then I thought, why not make a matching desk set? So I decoupaged a pencil (with plans for more) with the scraps from the page that I partially used. I've got plenty of plain or ugly pencils lying around - they might as well match the other stuff I'm planning on creating. You'd be surprised just how far one 12x12 sheet of paper can go.
Anyway, the pencil looks really nice. It's just too bad that I don't have any young neices around to appreciate a set of them. Maybe my nephews would like some camouflage pencils.
(Before anybody starts thinking they can "steal" the idea and claim it as their own, it was presented at the HIA conference many, many years ago, and Beacon has records because I used their product for it. Not that it would make them a ton of money, because it uses copywrighted scrapbook papers anyway. LOL But it does make a cute little project.)
I was thinking that it would be nice to make a desk set for work, if I can come up with some useful ideas. If there was a way to cover my desk with a hard, clear surface like Plexiglass, I wouldn't mind laying sheets of this paper down under it so that I'd have a purrrrrty desk.
The pencils really are nice looking - I'm still using the one I have covered with handprint paper. Granted, I'd covered it as a test because it was one of those cheesy, plastic, nontoxic pencils with a crummy eraser, but it sure is an easy way to see if someone has MY pencil in my classroom. I can literally say that it is a one-of-a-kind pencil. Sharpens fine too. Sometimes I think that the paper cover I put on it might have added some firmness for sharpening it, so that the "wood" doesn't crumble away in the sharpener and render it useless.
Maybe I could make the other teachers on my team some sets of matching pencils as gifts. :) I could always cover a matching box with the paper, too.
Want a good laugh? I've already had about 8 hours of sleep tonight. I fell asleep on the couch about 6:30, and woke up at about 2:30. So I crafted for a little over an hour and now I'm headed to bed, as soon as I finish this post.
Yesterday was fine at work... Today's the day the kids started back with their "too big for their britches" BS. I gave one permission to go to a teacher whose classroom is right behind mine, to check on his detention, and another teacher found him outside the building, banging on the door wanting to be let back inside. Another kid in that same class just left without asking.
8 1/2 more weeks. 45 more days.
I mentioned to one teacher that I thought it would be a good thing if those of us in our grade got together and shared our Advisory Class ideas, for stuff that actually worked in class. She thought it was a great idea. :) We believe that each teacher HAS to have 2 or 3 ideas that were just wonderful, and if we shared them, we could have a binder of ideas that's practically guaranteed to work.
I brought up the idea at lunch, and of course, the snotty ones down the hall pooh-poohed the idea because they absolutely refuse to even try to teach, and they act like their crap doesn't stink.
Well, that's fine. I know who I can work with, and I'm pretty sure that they won't mind chatting for an hour or two to combine ideas sometime. The rest can just float away on their own little boats for all I care.
The girls in my class bitched all year that I actually made them have lessons in class (as required) and whined that they wanted to just sit there and gossip amongst themselves. So today, I told them to just sit there and talk to each other, and you know what?
They bitched about not having a lesson to do. They didn't want to just sit and talk.
Naturally. They just want to do the opposite of what I ask. They also whined that they wanted to go outside. Fat chance I'll take them outside when I can't get them to behave INSIDE.
Last year I gave each of the girls in my class a scrapbook as an end-of-year gift from me. Not a chance in Hell that I'll do that for this group. But I think that I will maintain a small gift box for that purpose for future years. This year I wouldn't have enough of those scrapbooks (from the Dollar Tree - but very nice) to go around anyway, so I'd either have to buy something more expensive for them, or make something. I think if I went to that trouble with this group, they'd be disrespectful enough to tear up the books and trail them in the floor on their way out of the room.
I had found some yummy scrapbook papers to inspire me back into designing (and it worked), and I found this one paper that I really LOVE. I decided to decoupage the paper onto some wooden letters that spell out my name. :)
Then I thought, why not make a matching desk set? So I decoupaged a pencil (with plans for more) with the scraps from the page that I partially used. I've got plenty of plain or ugly pencils lying around - they might as well match the other stuff I'm planning on creating. You'd be surprised just how far one 12x12 sheet of paper can go.
Anyway, the pencil looks really nice. It's just too bad that I don't have any young neices around to appreciate a set of them. Maybe my nephews would like some camouflage pencils.
(Before anybody starts thinking they can "steal" the idea and claim it as their own, it was presented at the HIA conference many, many years ago, and Beacon has records because I used their product for it. Not that it would make them a ton of money, because it uses copywrighted scrapbook papers anyway. LOL But it does make a cute little project.)
I was thinking that it would be nice to make a desk set for work, if I can come up with some useful ideas. If there was a way to cover my desk with a hard, clear surface like Plexiglass, I wouldn't mind laying sheets of this paper down under it so that I'd have a purrrrrty desk.
The pencils really are nice looking - I'm still using the one I have covered with handprint paper. Granted, I'd covered it as a test because it was one of those cheesy, plastic, nontoxic pencils with a crummy eraser, but it sure is an easy way to see if someone has MY pencil in my classroom. I can literally say that it is a one-of-a-kind pencil. Sharpens fine too. Sometimes I think that the paper cover I put on it might have added some firmness for sharpening it, so that the "wood" doesn't crumble away in the sharpener and render it useless.
Maybe I could make the other teachers on my team some sets of matching pencils as gifts. :) I could always cover a matching box with the paper, too.
Want a good laugh? I've already had about 8 hours of sleep tonight. I fell asleep on the couch about 6:30, and woke up at about 2:30. So I crafted for a little over an hour and now I'm headed to bed, as soon as I finish this post.
Yesterday was fine at work... Today's the day the kids started back with their "too big for their britches" BS. I gave one permission to go to a teacher whose classroom is right behind mine, to check on his detention, and another teacher found him outside the building, banging on the door wanting to be let back inside. Another kid in that same class just left without asking.
8 1/2 more weeks. 45 more days.
I mentioned to one teacher that I thought it would be a good thing if those of us in our grade got together and shared our Advisory Class ideas, for stuff that actually worked in class. She thought it was a great idea. :) We believe that each teacher HAS to have 2 or 3 ideas that were just wonderful, and if we shared them, we could have a binder of ideas that's practically guaranteed to work.
I brought up the idea at lunch, and of course, the snotty ones down the hall pooh-poohed the idea because they absolutely refuse to even try to teach, and they act like their crap doesn't stink.
Well, that's fine. I know who I can work with, and I'm pretty sure that they won't mind chatting for an hour or two to combine ideas sometime. The rest can just float away on their own little boats for all I care.
The girls in my class bitched all year that I actually made them have lessons in class (as required) and whined that they wanted to just sit there and gossip amongst themselves. So today, I told them to just sit there and talk to each other, and you know what?
They bitched about not having a lesson to do. They didn't want to just sit and talk.
Naturally. They just want to do the opposite of what I ask. They also whined that they wanted to go outside. Fat chance I'll take them outside when I can't get them to behave INSIDE.
Last year I gave each of the girls in my class a scrapbook as an end-of-year gift from me. Not a chance in Hell that I'll do that for this group. But I think that I will maintain a small gift box for that purpose for future years. This year I wouldn't have enough of those scrapbooks (from the Dollar Tree - but very nice) to go around anyway, so I'd either have to buy something more expensive for them, or make something. I think if I went to that trouble with this group, they'd be disrespectful enough to tear up the books and trail them in the floor on their way out of the room.
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