New Year Organization

I hope everyone is having a great week so far and has some fun plans for the weekend! Today we have two New Year organization projects to share with you.

The first one is our January calendar, where we keep all of our project/blog ideas. It's great having all of our notes in one spot, so we can just cross them off when we're done with them

The second project is our answer to the question of cartridge storage. We've tried so many different combinations of storing the cartridges and inserts, and books. So here's what we did. (Some might say that we could just get rid of them, but that would be ridiculous!)

We went to Craft Room and made these little holders for each of our cartridges, and then put them into plastic storage bins.

They are separated into our different "categories" by color, so they're easier to fund. They correspond to the ringed collections of booklets we made. The books and the layovers are in a third bin, all in their color-coded categories. It's definitely much easier to find everything we need now.

We've added the projects to the Fantabulous Cricut "Get Oorganized" challenge here. And don't forget our Kards for Kiddos project for the children of Sandy Hook!

Thanks for stopping by!

Back to School Calendar

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a good week. We are enjoying the start of fall (I know, so early here), after our week of summer! To get us in the mood, today's project is a back-to-school/fall-themed calendar we designed.What teacher doesn't love fun calendars to keep all of their important dates in one place?!

We alternated between apples and leaves- two things that we think of this time of year. Oh, and our two little birdies, ready to go to school! The picture below is an up-close view of some of the pieces. We even have a special piece for the first day of fall. I do have to make the Labor Day and Back to School one still... All of the pieces are on magnets, so we can redecorate the white board accordingly.

I don't know if you can tell, but there is a pattern. That's the kindergarten teacher's idea. Much simpler than the original plan. The last picture is of the little header:

 This is probably my favorite part of the calendar. I love the little owl in the corner, just chilling on his tree branch! And the leaves on the tree are starting to change! September hasn't even started yet and I'm already looking forward to our October/Halloween calendar!
Thanks for stopping by! Come back tomorrow for a fun little card for the mathematician in all of us!