This week I was at school for a total of two days. Monday, being Martin Luther King Jr. Day, was a day off, of course. They called school off yesterday due to the snow that was coming. The snow didn’t arrive until about 9:30 or so, but they did the right thing calling it off. It is a disaster to have to leave school early if it’s snowing a lot. This makes travel dangerous for the buses. Well, we got a few inches of snow so school was cancelled today also. Yay! Yesterday I spent pretty much all day working on my painting for the Magical Mythical Makings course on Willowing. Here’s what I’ve gotten finished so far:

I haven’t worked on a larger canvas in a long time. Also, I haven’t drawn in forever, so I am way out of practice. For a first attempt at a Goddess I think she’ll turn out okay. Maybe not exactly how I want, but okay enough.

Things have picked up over at The Quilting Bee here lately. If you haven’t already joined…well, if you haven’t, why haven’t you?!

My last post was June 29th? Seriously? :blush:

I have no excuse other than school started back thus I have been obsessing over lesson plans and such. School is better this year now that I don’t have to do my internship. I have a great group of kids this year (overall). I also have a smaller class – 18 this year – which is totally awesome. I sometimes miss all the time I used to spend on Twitter, my website, and the internet in general but I really do enjoy teaching and spend a lot of time planning lessons and such.

Right now we’re in the middle of the Gingerbread Girl craze. She ran away on Friday. The kids were even more excited about it this year than last year’s group was. It’s really fun. We’ll be making gingerbread ornaments, and cookies, and cakes this week. Fun times! My mom made another gingerbread house around my classroom door and it is even cuter than the one last year! Way more color this time around. I’ll have to take a picture of it this week.

Christmas is right around the corner. I have a lot of shopping left to do. I also have many crafty things I am working on. I am working on adding items to my Etsy shop which has been ignored for a couple of years now. I am going to be adding some major cuteness to it, and I can’t wait!

For now I leave you with this yummy treat I baked up at Thanksgiving. More on my Flickr.

And the layout… it was coming along well, but then I got busy. And now I think I may have a new idea.