♫ Give it away, give it away, give it away now!

As I was writing this post, I kept singing the chorus to "Give it Away" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. I am a dork. 

Here are some giveaways you may want to enter:

There is an awesome 100 follower giveaway happening now in Foxwell Forest! Congrats, Becca! :)

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Jessica from Second Grade Nest is having a 500 followers giveaway! Congrats, Jessica!

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Jaime from Bright Concepts 4 Teachers is hosting a 200 followers giveaway! Congrats on 200, Jamie!

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Stephanie Ann from Sparkling in Third Grade is having a 100 followers giveaway! Congrats, Stephanie! 

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There is a fabulous gift card giveaway happening now over at The Peanut Gallery! :D Woohoo!

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Lisa from Live, Laugh and Love to Learn is giving away 13 items from her store! 13 happens to be my favorite/lucky number! :)

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Lori from The Reinspired Teacher is celebrating 100 followers! 

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Just Wild about Teaching is giving a way a $20 gift card to Amazon along with a New Year's craftivity AND a Dental Health craftivity!

Just click the pic to go to her blog!

What are you waiting for? Go enter! :)

I am also linking up with Jen from The Teacher's Cauldon to share 2 of my New Year's resolutions. Yup, only two.

The first is a personal one.

It's the one I make every year and never do:
2013 is my year!

Click the pic to check out my fitness board

Blog resolution:

Get organized and blog more. I have lots of ideas for activities, blog posts and FREEBIES all jumbled up in my brain. I just need to sit down and organize it all. I have a TPT store but it needs some serious work. A HUGE thank you to the 6 darlings that have followed. (I know there are 7 now, but I kinda followed myself.) *blushes* I promise it will be filled with goodies soon!

I saw this on Lisa's blog, Learning is Something to Treasure:

It's a blogging calendar she found on Pinterest! Awesome idea!
This will help me organize for sure!

I'm pretty good at leaving blog comments but totally fail on leaving comments on TPT for freebies.
Y'all are so wonderful for sharing your hardwork for free, I need to be better at saying thanks and leaving feedback. 
I also hope to host my first linky in 2013. I'm still pretty new at this but I am getting better! Yay!

I also started a Facebook page for my blog. Would you be so kind and stop by and give it a quick like?

Click the pic for FB!

Well, that's all folks! I'm off to get ready for church. We're having a New Year's Eve eve dinner. Doesn't quite help with my get fit resolution. Ha!

Thanks for following my blog, TpT store and FB page! Your support is greatly appreciated! :)

Things I love...

This post will be jammed packed with goodies! 

Over Thanksgiving break I made a few stops at several stores and here's what I found.

Dollar Tree 
Y'all, I ♥ the Dollar Tree.  Everything is a dollar. One dollar! How awesome is that?! 

That store is filled with tons of goodies that can be used with kiddos.  I ♥ it! I only took a picture of one of each item. I always buy at least two. I bought lots of jumbo coins and bills. The horseshoes are magnets! The mini dollar bills are magnets, too. They had dry erase message boards cut like strips. I also scored some red foil die cut letters, perfect for my Wizard of Oz theme idea.

Forever 21.
 I got a blouse and some skinny jeans but I wore them before I took a picture so I can't really show you. I also got these SUPER cute earrings. I had seen similar ones at Kohl's that I wanted but these were cheaper and way cuter.

Apple Cinnamon 
And because it is almost December, (November flew by, didn't it?) I had to get my favorite scent to fill up my house.  

Teachers Pay Teachers

 I went a little clip art crazy. Here are a few that I bought during the cyber sale.

 From The Enlightened Elephant

All from Ashley Hughes
I've got some projects in the works! :)

Michael Bublé
I saw him in concert 2 years ago and it was absolutely wonderful. I love his voice and he's hilarious! You must check out his album, Christmas. 

Cold December Night is my favorite song off the album.

Giveaways

Wild About First Grade is giving away a $50 giftcard to Kohl's! Head to her blog to enter.

Journey of a Substitute Teacher is having 12 days of giveaways over at her blog!

Happy Thursday! 

My first freebie!

I just want to say that I am finally 100% happy with my blog design and will not be changing it anymore. I know it probably looks different every time you visit but I'm happy with it now. :D

You may have seen this floating around on Pinterest. Hehe. I remember during my student teaching I experienced my first classroom Halloween. It wasn't too crazy because they were a pretty chill group of 3rd graders. But 20-25 kindergarteners or firsties is ANOTHER STORY!  I really hope every single one of you has an awesome day tomorrow, and Thursday and Friday lol

Because 13 is my favorite number and I now have 13 followers, I am posting my first freebie! (And it's also finally ready, lol) Thank you so much for taking an interest in my blog.  You don't know how happy that makes me! I created these super cute Absent Friend folder covers and I want to share them with you.  I plan on using these with clasp envelopes. I'll go into more detail in a later post.

This also marks the official grand opening of my TpT store!  There aren't many products yet, as I am just getting started, but be sure to click follow so you can receive updates as soon as new products are added. :)

Click here for your freebie!

 

Y'all have a safe and happy Halloween!