i am a WINNER!

Today has been one of those stressful, bang head against the wall kind of days.  Storm clouds followed me for a good portion of the day until I came home, checked my blog feed and found this

remember the Trash to Treasure linky party contest I entered here

trashtotreasure

Well I won one of the prizes. 

I so needed this sunshine today.

it couldn't have come at a more perfect time.

(insert happy dance here)

Someone else's trash became my Treasure:)

Fact number 1: I love altering and making/creating things.
Fact number 2: My husband is a garage sale/thrifting guru. When you are married to someone who has this gift of finding "treasures" among "trash", you have no choice but to participate in the journey.

So at the end of this school year I had to move classrooms (mind you I had already moved mid year). I guess you could say I'm like a traveling gypsy.  My new classroom has a perfect spot under the telephone for a small shelf.  It only took 2 Saturday's to come across the perfect fitting shelf for my room which happened to look like this:

Don't you just love the sponged on tan and blues? mmmm good looking

Scored this one for 2 whole dollars:)

So after casting forth vision, here's what I decided to do with it.

bright blue, black and white plus some hot pink...

now that's more like it

 I am quite obsessed with the top

 Oh hey cool frame from Hobby Lobby

 the black strips are....chalkboard!!! quotes, words, phrases, doodles

I love these blocks. great for list making

or if I feel generous, letting the students draw on my teacher shelf 

Now head on over to 

and check out some more trash to treasure creations.