Life Lately

The summer is winding down (sad, sad, sad) only one more week off and then back to the hot, humid school!

Here's what has been happening lately!

We went to the Sox game the end of July.............and it rained.......HARD for over an hour.

Thankfully we were under some overhang that kept us dry!

We didn't stay the whole game - as it rained again and then they decided to finish the game the following day!

It's that time to start setting up classrooms.  My friend's room was moved - so it's like starting from scratch! It was almost 100 degrees and very HUMID so I can't imagine the temperature in the classroom as we took this big old mess and made it look like.....................

this!

I've been making classroom signs for teachers who have asked - new teachers and teachers switching grade levels.

I continue folding books - for Christmas presents!  Some for birthday gifts.  Here are my latest projects.

This book wasn't think enough to make a bird cage and instead of throwing it out I was able to frame it and hang it in my kitchen!

In my last post, I showed this project - however, I added dog tags with my friend's dog's name on them!

This vase is huge!  I wasn't sure what to do with it as it was so big - I created these big flowers from my We R Memory Keepers Flower Punch board and it turned out beautiful! 

Then made some smaller vases for birthday gifts

This one was to match the classroom from above!

Then this cute doggie! He is so cute!

and this mouse with glasses!

For my mom, who LOVES tea, I made this teapot and teacup!

This is going to be a birthday gift for a reading teacher - It's a vase with pastel flowers!

Here are some of the name sculptures I've created (for Christmas Gifts)

Ashley

Sadler

Fitzgerald

Fagiano

Dave and Erica

Brigman

Bowers

Furstenau

Howicz

Madzinski

Perotti

Salzbrunn #1

Salzbrunn #2

Sanders

And lastly, my posting wouldn't be complete without a picture of my latest skechers purchases!

Thanks for stopping by!

Summer's Flying By

It's hard to believe that 1/2 of the summer is already gone. This past week Ryan and I visited Cantigny. I wasn't sure what to expect, but after seeing some wedding photos a friend showed me that were taken there, I thought it might be something to go see. Ryan had been there on a field trip there in 5th grade - but it was primarily for the military tanks and museum. I was pleasantly surprised that even the area with the tanks was interesting and the grounds was absolutely breathtaking. After dinner, we decided to take Bill over to see the tanks and even though the museum was already closed he was fascinated to read and see all the tanks, including the tank his father operated during the Korean War.




Last week Ryan was in Football Camp. We had to get up a lot earlier than we've been use to and frankly we hated it! Friday the boys along with Ryan's friend went to see the Batman movie, The Dark Knight and then Saturday they went to the Sox game with Dave, Dan,Kim and Jacob. I, of course, enjoyed the time to work on the computer and enjoy the piece and quiet.

I can't remember if I mentioned in my previous postings that I was offered a new "role" at GOGO. After being a little overwhelmed at first, I'm finally able to organize myself between the two different office's accounting. The other office is located in Mahwah, New Jersey. I'm hoping to take on another office soon. Since Flight Center bought our company, they have been eliminating people in my position. It was such a shock to be one of the 2 people picked out of the entire country to be given the opportunity to assist the auditing department in auditing other offices finances. The entire company was put on the same monitary "retainer" and has to work on a commission incentive to produce business. They offered me a higher retainer in addition to working on my own personal incentive to reduce errors in both our office and the Mahwah office. So far, so good!

I still have not received word from the district on my "temporary" assignment for the next school year. The previous principal told me not to be worried about returning - I am the only part time employee at school. They have made "special arrangements" to keep me employeed at our building. This year we have a new principal who doesn't know me - so I'm hoping my special schedule is still exceptable!

I'm off to create a slide show of the Cantigny pictures......................