Teaching Updates, Snow, and Tears!

HELLO!

First of all, some very exciting news! I just received my student teaching placement!!!! I will be teaching 3rd and 5th grades at Edith Bowen Lab School....right up on campus!!! I was really worried because I didn't want to have to travel and spend even more time away from home next semester, but this worked out so well! Colin and I will even be able to commute (for like 10 seconds!LOL!) together! I am super excited and very nervous all at the same time!

Secondly, my little boy HATES winter! I am so sad about this because I really thought he would like to do things like sledding and making snow angels and attacking daddy with snowballs... But, alas, not all dreams come true! We took Gideon sledding for the first time a few days ago and he bawled the whole time! We tried again today with the SAME results! Boo! Maybe in a few years... :(

I am getting really excited about Christmas though! I love this time of year. At church on Sunday I said that I really felt like the Grinch for eleven months of the year and then December rolls around and my heart grows so much! It is a wonderful feeling, no?

Crafts!

Ok, so I have two crafts because I didn't do one last week. Actually, I did DO one last week I just didn't post it... And, I still don't have pictures to show, but I have tutorials. The first one (the one I did for Thanksgiving), is a hand print from Cluck Cluck Sew here. I did a really simplified version where I took the backing of one of the frames that I used for other projects and mod podged material onto it. Here are the steps for my simplified version:
1. Mod Podge material to frame
2. While that dries, try and get your little one to cooperate and trace his hand on cardstock or paper. This is your pattern!
3. Cut your pattern out of a different color of fabric and mod podge that to your frame.
4. Write with craft pen or permanent marker:
FIRST NAME
MIDDLE
LAST NAME
DATE
5. Finish off with jute!

DONE!!! Ta-da!

My next one is a sock monkey. I absolutely love sock monkeys and I really wanted to make one for Gideon for Christmas. Would you believe it only cost me a $1 to make???? I already had some poly-fil so all I had to pay for were the socks! Anyway, the tutorial is here. Let me tell you, it was super easy! I am definitely not a sewer and I think it was easy! My friend Delia is a sewer and I know she could make 50 of these in the time it takes me to make one though! Anywho, it took me an hour to make the whole thing. You really should check them out!!!! So cute!