Show and Tell Friday

Stop by Kelli's blog and visit show and tell Friday. Her link is on my sidebar. It a lot of fun. Bloggersall over link to her blog and share something that is special to them. Kelli also has an awesome on line magazine called Seasonal Delights. She featured a banner in her premiere issue that motivated me to make one for the fall season. Thanks Kelli, now I'll have to make one for every season, gosh...LOL It came out okand I'm enjoying the bit of color it adds to the opening in my kitchen. Here's a set of Autumn Leaves stamps. I used on the white circles. I really like these stamps. They are clear and stamp a sharp image.

Here's a close up of one of the circles.

Here's a close up of the rest of the opening. We put the "window" in the wall when we moved into our home to help open up the kitchen. It's a fun little spot to decorate for the seasons. Thank you for stopping by. (I got the cute little pumpkins for $1.00. Gotta love a bargain.)

Show and Tell Friday

Good golly it's been a long time. I seem to be getting back in the swing of things. Yikes, it's been a busy start to school. Finally a post for Show and Tell Friday, I've missed all of you!
Dear hubby and I went to a neighborhood garage sale this spring. We were less than excited about out trip until we went to this one home. There we found the buy of the year for us. Since I teach, I'm always drawn to pictures of school rooms. We were fortunate to find three pictures that would go great in Junior's room. (He moved to supported living last October and his room was in need of some redecorating.) I had painted and put up a Coke border one year ago, however he took most of his things with him to his new apartment, so his room was in need of decorations. My husband and I have always loved the artists Hargrove and Carson. They have similar styles and were reported to have studied together. I can't find much about them on the Internet, but have found their prints on EBay. I already had a school yard print by Hargrove... We were so pleasantly surprised when we spotted in a driveway three paintings. However, there were no price tags. I was sure they would be too much. One was of a school room, one of a soda shop, and one of a toy store. All of them had the perfect colors for the room and they were prints Junior could relate too. They would make a nice addition to his room, plus allow me to make it into a guestroom too. The smaller one we had of the school yard.

The larger one is the picture we found:

Here's the soda shop:
And finally here's the toy shop:

This is the best part, several of them are number and signed by the artist. Their retail value in the early 90's would have been over $300.00 for the three of them in frames. Drum roll please..., can you tell I'm still excited about this??? They were only $5.00 each. Yes a total of $15.00. Yikes that's a good buy. I couldn't have gone anywhere and gotten pictures like this for $5.00 a piece. Are you familiar with these artist? Please let me know. Have a good weekend. Thanks Kelli, for hosting Show and Tell Fridays. Such fun for all.

Show and Tell Friday

Kelli, please allow me this show and tell. I know it's not the "typical show" and tell but I want to share my teaching blog with all the wonderful home schooling moms you have visit your site. Yikes, that almost a run-on sentence. LOL. It's called Cafe Class, (Cafe Cl*ss) and I'm really quite proud of it. I'll have a lot of information that could be applied to students K-3. With some activities adaptable to higher grades. Plus I plan to share resources, and websites of value. Please stop by and visit my classroom on the web. It will become more and more meaningful to home schooling moms. I love center based learning, hands on learning, and seasonal projects. Thank you for your time, Trudi M
Cafe Cl*ss

Gosh It's Been A Long Time!

I am so out of the blogging scene it makes me sad. I had so many issues with my computer and then started back to school. Yikes, I'm out of it. I wrote this post last night so I could join the fun again. I miss you guys! School has been really busy. I have 12 students. That doesn't seem like much but their needs are times three at least. Love them, but boy am I worn out. I could be a stay at home "pup mom" on some days. (I don't have children)

Seriously, I think I would miss teaching very much but it is so nice to have the time during the summer. I keep a much cleaner home, more rest, more fun, more creativity, more everything...

Sigh, enough of that. What to share??? Well, here's my front door. I painted it in the last month. It was red, but it had more of a blue base to it before I repainted it. I'm pleased with the results. I must say, red is not an easy color to paint for good coverage. Yikes, I was even painting on top of a red.

I made the wall pocket. It was originally a shabby white, and I sprayed it black. Then, I added the greenery. Over all I'm please with the total effect. Let me know what you think, please... I begging for comments. LOL. Have a good weekend. Thanks Kelli for hosting Show and Tell.

Show And Tell Friday

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a good week. As you all know my mom visited from NC and it was a surprise. We had a good time, busy, but not too busy. We met with friends, family, had a cookout, shopped, boated and hung out. Now I'm preparing to go back to school on Aug. 13.

I was feeling a little down on Tues. and Wed. so dear hubby sent me flowers. It was a real pick-me-up, thanks Honey. Here they are:

He's also been really supportive of my blogging. He sees how happy it makes me. So here's a picture of some veggies from our garden. (He took the picture so I'd have it for my blog.) All the best everyone, and if you are new to my blog, be sure and check out Show and Tell Friday at Kelli's blog. There are usually more that 40 participants.

Show and Tell Friday

Thank you Kelli for hosting Show and Tell Fridays, what great fun. Please check out the link on my sidebar. Mom's here from NC and I'm really glad to have this time with her. I've been working on the house a lot this summer. I really pushed myself when I found out she was coming. (Two more weeks and I'm back to school. Can you believe it?) I'm sharing the arrangement I just completed on the top of my hutch in the kitchen. I'm really please with it and wanted show my treasures.

This is the entire top. The milk glass pieces were my grandmother's. The little kitty is sitting on a box I decorated to add elevation to the layout. The Bliss can is a vintage coffee can. I love the name and the color. The little bird plate, is a thrift store find for $2.00 and it is Limoge. The biscuit jar is from my grandmother and she use to keep sugar in it. We don't use it, because I don't want it broken. *smile* I like the way the colors fell together. It looks really fresh and summery. I'll change it for fall. Oops, since taking this picture, I added posies to the vase.

Thank you for visiting, please come back. PS, don't forget to leave a message, please.

Show and Tell Friday

Kelli host Show and Tell Friday, see sidebar for link. She has a blog called There's No Place Like Home. Please visit her. There are many participants each week for show and tell. It is a lot of fun to see what people treasure and why...

I'm showing my tomato plants this week. I am not a trained gardener, but have been very diligent in taking care of my small garden this year. Obviously the tomato plants are very happy where they are. They are almost as tall has dear hubby. We planted grape tomatoes and celebrity tomatoes. The grape tomatoes are starting to ripen in our area, Mid West. When we bought these plant they were three inches tall! We've had a blast watching them grow. Here are pictures.

Aren't these darling, you don't have to wonder where they got their name. PS, they are really good. I love gardening it's so rewarding when things go right. Do you enjoy gardening and why? Have a great weekend all.

Another note: I woke up this AM and looked out my window and all my Morning Glory vines are wilted and broke off; we had a lot of rain in the last day. Does anyone know why this happened? I'm broken hearted, this was the first year for them for me. *sigh*

Show And Tell Friday

Today I would like to share my vintage charm collection. I have no idea what it is worth, but it brings back priceless memories. My Grandmother had them in this very same box for me. I remember sorting through it and talking with her for hours when I was a little girl. We'd find matches, sort, look and talk. *sigh*

I may use a few for collage work to be posted in my home, but otherwise, the collection will stay the same as always. Thanks for looking and if you would like to join Kelli's Show and Tell Friday, click on the link at the side. It great fun to see what everyone is sharing and they are a very kind group of ladies.

Show A Tell Friday, My classroom Graduation

I teach special education. I opened a classroom for students with moderate needs in a middle school five years ago. I have had a large number of students for the last three years. We, myself and my two paras, are with them five out of six class hours per day so you become very attached. We are one big "happy" family. LOL. Seriously, I love them dearly. When you work with students with high needs for 3 years, you get to know not only them really well, but their families also. Five students exiting all at once is a large number for this type of classroom. Needless to say it was an emotional farewell. I always have a graduation party for the students. We have an open house, with cake, past teachers, awards, and parents. It's a nice closure for the students and the staff. Not to mention it is a form of "right of passage" for the students who are staying. We really play that up too. We remind them that they are growing up and will be leaders next year.

Here are some photos of the the party. We bought them autograph dogs this year for their gift and they loved them! It's something we will do every year from now on. Everyone that came to the party signed the dogs for them, classmates, teachers, parents, principals and school staff. I stitched their initials and the initials of the school on the ears. I think it was a nice touch. Please check out show and tell Friday at Kelli's blog. Link on the sidebar. It's great fun.

I'd love to share pics. of all the kiddos, but I don't think some parents would like it. So that's all folks. Hope you enjoyed. Trudi M.

Our New Puppy Buggy

Well I'm not sure I should share this, but my husband and I are going out of town for three nights. We're going to Southern IN, to Little Nashville, in Brown County. It's a very popular destination in the fall because there are so many trees that turn beautiful colors. There's tons to do, little shops, flea markets, antique malls, winery, and a state park. We had planned to take our two Maltese dogs, Bailey and Roscoe. They are very social and most importantly portable. Less than ten pounds per pet "kid". We were going to leave our 15 lbs. Schnauzer with my step-son. Alison would have missed us and we her, but three dogs on vacation come on... where's the sanity and relaxation in that?
Stop, halt! The plans have changed, dear hubby wants to take Alison too. Three flippin dogs in one car for four hours and in a tiny hotel room. Yikes. Not to mention he does not want to leave them in the room nor the car, me neither, but what are we going to do? Purchase a doggy buggy... We did, we're going and here it is. Pictures to follow after our trip on Wed of the freaky family. Have a great weekend. Trudi M.


P.S. If your interested in one, we got it on Ebay. Great price, great service. (LOL)

Show and Tell Friday

I am having really big problems with my computer. It won't allow me to upload pictures, and so now I can't show what I wanted to tell or tell what I wanted to show?? Understand?? Well the computer tells me there is a run time error. I have no idea what that is, sad, sad, sad...

I'm going to attept to use something I have on the computer. Shoot right now I can't even do that... So sorry. I'll just point out that I rearranged my bookshelves on Wed.

Not sure when I'll be back. Trudi M.

Show and Tell Friday

Have I mentioned how much I love this activity? I think it is so fun. If you're interested in joining this great fun and sharing something on a weekly basis, please click on the link on the Show and Tell link. You'll meet a lot of lovey ladies and see a lot of neet things.My hubby and I went yardsaling a week ago and found some neat treasures. I collect cats, the heart frame is new and our bedroom has a beach cottage theme. I love old cameras and collect snowmen too. The little toothpick holder is from an old dime store from our childhood. We got it for 25 cents, and would have paid $5.00 for the memories it brings back for us. Should we go pack and pay the difference? (LOL) Our big bargain of the day was the gumball machine. It's glass and metal and I picked it up for $2.00. I want in for my classroom. I teach middle school special needs students and I think they will really think it's cool to get gum from it. I'm saving it for next year, because today is my last day of School...Yeh!!!! Ten weeks of summer bliss.

Show and Tell Friday

Hi, all! I think this is such great fun. My first show and tell is my new Mast Head or Banner. I just got it last night from Amy at One Blue Egg. She looked through my site and captured me so well. The wording: collecting, dreaming and teaching were all her ideas. I think it is just the best and I'm so happy to see it when I log on. Most importantly, that beautiful women in the middle is my late grandmother who raised me. She was the best! Thanks for stopping by and please leave a comment.

For all of you visiting, you are welcom to join Show and Tell Friday. You see some really great things. Here's the info and the link is on my side bar. Tootles, Trudi M

Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!" Do you have a something special to share with us? It could be a trinket from grade school, a piece of jewelry, an antique find. Your show and tell can be old or new. Use your imagination and dig through those old boxes in your closet if you have to! Feel free to share pictures and if there's a story behind your special something, that's even better!