Valentined Winter Wreath

I love my twiggy winter wreath.

I purchased it at a local store.

I am sure that I will get my money's worth out of it because

the length of our Canadian winter

allows me to have it up for about half the year.  

 But I thought that I would add a little Valentine love for the next couple of weeks.

So, off to the dollar store where I found these babies:

 These are glittered Styrofoam hearts stuck on wire sticks.

At first I weaved the sticks into the wreath. 

But the white wires were distracting.

So, I pulled the heart off the stick and popped it right onto the twigs.

Happy Valentines Day.

Remember to hug the ones that you love cause life is precious.

Goodbye Ads

Just a little FYI

&

an apology.

I just took down the Adsense ads. 

I am sorry if any of the ads posted on em-belle-ish offended you.

It was an experiement to try them

and in the end

I decided that if I am going to offer space to advertisers that  

I would like to have some say in the content of the ads :)

Handy Dandy Home Planner

Here is my "Handy Dandy Home Planner!"

(Anyone else ever watch Blue's Clues? :)

My sections are:

 week plans

to do

groceries

big city shopping trip list

bills

school

church
books/DVDs lent and borrowed

I made my own templates using Microsoft Word tables. 

 I

I was so inspired, that I even made a twin binder for substitute teaching.

I am feeling very happily organized. Thank you A Bowl Full of Lemons.

I am linking up here.

I Painted My Shoes

I love these shoes:

except for this:

I wore them once and the paint came off the toes... so I used a Sharpie to try and camouflage it.

Not so good :(

When I saw Sugar Bee's shoe project a while back

the wheels started turning.

I threw caution to the wind this week

and

PAINTED MY SHOES!

I used this liquid metallic paint by Modern Masters. 

I picked it up at a local paint store.  It is intended for walls.

This was after one coat.

After a few touch ups:

What do you think?

Wear them or toss them?

Linking up to: Under the Table and Dreaming
Sugar Bee's Take a Look Tuesday
Domestically Speaking's Power of Paint Party

Back to School: the substitute

picture courtesy of scienceblogs.com

I've been teaching for almost ten years

but
I haven't done a tonne of

substitute teaching.

For the last little bit, I've been almost full timing as a sub.
OK, sometimes my heart races a little bit  - but for the most part it has been great.

What I have discovered is that I really love the kids.
I thought that it would be hard getting to know the students
if I were only with them once in a while.
But it's working out that I am just getting to know
a whole lot more kids
than I would if I had a homeroom.

So I'm putting more of my creative energies into the classroom these days
but I'm still thinking about you my bloggy friends.

I've been hoping to get to a pair of shoes that I really love. 
Maybe I could give them a touch of  Sugar Bee. 

She modge podged shoes people!  And they are gorgeous!!!

I'll keep you posted when I get brave enough to jump in on the shoe project :)

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...

I have been up to:

1. A lot of subbing :)  A new adventure every day.

2. Trying to keep up with all my daily duties.

3. Completing the application for a Master of Education program.

4. The 21 Day Organizing Challenge.

#3 went in the mail today.  Holy moly, I am really doing this.

I think I can I think I can I think I can.

Day 17 Foiled... Maybe 18 too

 So I haven't forgotten the challenge. 

But the mail centre and the keepsake/memento organization are just going to have to wait because

I have been busy wracking my brain

 and banging on these

in order to fill one of these.

I'll keep you posted.

In the meantime you can check out what all the other lemon ladies are accomplishing

at  A Bowl Full of Lemons.