Wednesday!

The end of the school year is always very exciting and never sad. This year was a little different. Last week was my last week as a middle school teacher. I got a new job teaching at an elementary and I could not be more excited. I will have a PPCD classroom (Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities). The last week of school was a roller coaster, I was sad to leave the friends I had made at Lincoln Middle School and some of the students that I had formed relationships with but am SO excited to move on to my new classroom that I had been waiting 4 years for!

Now when I get stressed or excited I try to change things, anything. That is usually when I get my best projects done, it's therapy. On Wednesday of this emotional week my husband called me to tell me that he was leaving for a fire and didn't know when he was coming home. So I made a trip to Hobby Lobby and Lowes and went home and got to work. 

My sweet friend Aubrey's 30th birthday party was coming up and I was making the cake. I hadn't done the kind of cake before so I decided to do a practice. I also needed something to contribute to a luncheon at work so that was going to be perfect.

This cake was amazing. I just used a white cake mix from a box and divided the batter up into 4 bowls and added food coloring to each one. I forgot to take a picture of this step but I do have a picture of some cute boys being helpful.

Two colors went into one round pan and the other two colors went into the other pan.

Bake like the box tells you to and then I just put white icing on it and it was gorgeous! For Aubrey's party her cake will be red and turquoise with buttercream icing!

That night I also tackled 4 other projects in my house. I have a cute little door at the end of the hallway between the boys bedroom and their playroom. It needed to be turned into a chalkboard...

The weekend before I had painted my entertainment center a gorgeous turqouise/green color and then panicked because it didn't match the rest of the living room. So I found an old board from something we tore apart in house remodeling and painted a chevron stripe on it to put above the entertainment center but it needed something else. I had found a damaged out frame for $16 at Hobby Lobby with the intentions of painting it a fun color and then putting around the black and white board and I got this... ( I still haven't decided on which fun color to paint it or if I should leave it alone.)

Then I had a corner to the right of the entertainment center that is naked. We have a couple large floor cushions that stay there along with a couple of Max's larger toys that he plays with in the living room so putting something in the floor isn't an option. It is also too awkward of a place to put a picture, maybe. Anyways, I decided to make some tissue paper pom-poms that I see everyone putting in their baby girl nurseries. Well, I don't have a baby girl so I decided that I am going to put some in my living room.

Oh yeah, and one more thing... I had an empty little spot in my kitchen that needed to be filled, so I found an old picture that I wasn't using any more and painted over it with chalkboard paint, and it was the perfect size for the spot!

I'd say that was a successful therapeutic day!