time-out-from-teaching: 2010

Monday, October 4, 2010

Another clip for our 50's Wearable Art show!

Craft crew doing a bit of shopping!

A wonderful trip to WOW in the holidays followed by quite a bit of shopping. Thanks Uncle Visa and Lyn for the transport to Greytown. Fantastic!!

Monday, September 27, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Daylight saving is an art form!

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Helping troubled teens with creative workshops

An inspirational story about troubled teens in America whose lives were turned around by working with creative artists to make beautiful glassware.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

YouTube top double dutch team

I'm tired watching this but what a great team sport for fitness and fun

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The misty Maungatuas 04/08/10

We have an amazing view from our property. Today this view was spectacular!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Another great website called Cut Out + Keep

See Juggling Balls and 1000's of others - or share your own on Cut Out + Keep

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Back to teaching pick-me-up

The following website reminds us of the small things which make us smile on a bad day or any day for that matter...

Posting # 525 That Teacher is dedicated to the author's former teacher. Comments from bloggers that follow this posting remind me that inspirational teachers are valued, but not necessarily whilst their students are still at school!

http://1000awesomethings.com/the-top-1000/

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Another Op Shop find!

Whilst sorting through bargains at our local Shop on Taieri, I found this cute embroidery sampler that I mounted into an old oak frame. A $2 bargain without all the effort involved in stitching!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Family photo at Robin and Mark's wedding

Good times at family weddings - Another Facebook find!!

Colour co-ordination without trying!

It's amazing what can be found on Facebook when looking at a link for baby photos!!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

An excellent site to learn embroidery stitches

http://stitchschool.blogspot.com/

Teaching embroidery - I've tried the lot - text books, posters, flow charts, embroidery samplers. This site is helpful for teaching step-by-step stages of how to do selected embroidery stitches.