DIY tiny frames for tiny labels

Let's take a moment on Remembrance Day to honour soldiers, past and present. 

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I am very excited about today’s post! 

Excited indeed! 

This weekend, instead of doing my schoolwork, I decided to do some crafting. I’m responsible like that, you see. But this craft marks the beginning of my biggest project to date! So I am excited! The rest of the project will happen after midterms.  Actually, my biggest project to date is my DIY upholstered headboard. I'm not sure if this one is bigger or not. We'll see.

This weekend I used silicone moulds and moulding sticks to create tiny little frames for tiny little labels! 

Ok, so I just gave away the rest of the project. If you read my blog regularly, you may remember when I mentioned my big project in my post about bedroom updates. The plan is to revamp my dresser, giving it a healthy coat of black, along with some other much needed updates. 

Mind-Blowing Banana Cream Cake

I found something so delicious, it will knock your socks off! 

Banana Cream CAKE! 

So much goodness…. You can’t understand the goodness! 

First Practicum Review

Welcome back! 

(I’m talking to myself here) 

Ok, so I took a bit of a blog hiatus while I was on my first practicum. There are three major reasons for this: 

1) Practicum was intense guys. I worked my tush off for the past 3 weeks and was exhausted all the time. 

2) Contrary to the implication made by this post’s time stamp, I like to blog in the morning. I’m far more productive in pretty much every aspect of life in the morning. During practicum I arrived at my school at 8:30 each morning, so there was no blogging to be done in the AM. 

3) My number one blog supporter (my brother) was without internet until last week, so I felt that my awesome posts could wait until my promoter was back behind his desk. 

Hi Mat

Mat, say hello to everyone. 

I was assigned my first practicum this week. I got a grade 6 class in a small suburban town about 10km outside of The City. Very upper-middle class, very Anglo. I think it’s going to be a nice place to learn the basics of how to teach, before being introduced to all the different aspects of super diverse classrooms (I’m sure that will come with my future practicums. At least I hope so; I do want to experience teaching in a culturally and socioeconomically diverse classroom.). 

My associate teacher seems like a very nice woman, though very precise with high expectations, which is perfect. Though my practicum doesn’t start until Monday, I went in for a half-day today to check out the classroom and meet the kids and teacher. The kids were pretty underwhelmed about my presence, but they’re in grade 6, how excited are they going to get. 

I don’t know how I’m going to like grade 6. It definitely is not my first choice of grades; those kids are way too old for my liking. But when I was doing my placements for ECE I said the same thing going in to my school-age placement (I thought for sure I was meant to be a toddler teacher), and I ended up loving school-age. We’ll see. 

Anyways, about my mat. Mat, where are you? 

There he is.