Kids Speak: Soooooo innocent!

Happy Valentine's Day! Did you know that as a teacher you can get valentine's presents? Well, today I got a few presents and among them were flowers, keychains and of course CHOCOLATE! Here is the conversation I had while I was opening a box of Godiva chocolates:

Me: Ooooh! It's chocolate! Thank you!
Student: You're welcome. It was supposed to be a present for me but I didn't like it.

Dragonfly Necklace with pearls

Originally uploaded by BumbleBeads Designs

My New Favourite Song...

From Boys Like Girls

"Two is Better Than One"

I remember what you wore on the first day
You came into my life
And I thought hey
You know this could be something
'Cause everything you do and words you say
You know that it all takes my breath away
And now I'm left with nothing

'Cause maybe it's true, that I can't live without you
Well maybe two is better than one
There's so much time, to figure out the rest of my life
And you've already got me coming undone
And I'm thinking two, is better than one

I remember every look upon your face,
The way you roll your eyes, the way you taste
You make it hard for breathing
'Cause when I close my eyes and drift away
I think of you and everythings okay
And finally now, we're leaving

And maybe it's true, that I can't live without you
Well maybe two is better than one
There's so much time, to figure out the rest of my life
And you've already got me coming undone
And I'm thinking two, is better than one

Yeah, yeah

I remember what you wore on the first day
You came into my life
And I thought hey

Maybe it's true, that I can't live without you
Maybe two is better than one
There's so much time, to figure out the rest of my life
And you've already got me coming undone
And I'm thinking

Oooh I can't live without you
'Cause baby two is better than one
There's so much time, to figure out the rest of my life
And I've figured out with all that's said and done
Two, is better than one

Two is better than one

The Power of Tags!!!

I've been quite busy with teaching lately so I haven't been tending my shop or making any inventory. So last week, I was checking my email and was surprised to see that I made a sale! I was so excited that I was literally jumping off the walls. This was the first sale that I made where I didn't know who the person was. Not only did I not know the person, but I didn't even do any promoting (ie. renewing/listing, etc). I realized that I got this sale because the customer was looking for wedding jewellery and must have done a search on Etsy. The sale made my day and I stayed up till 12am (normally, I'm in bed by 10pm) packaging it and couldn't sleep all night.

Moral of this story: tags work! and so do nice looking pictures!

Help Haiti!

You've probably heard about Haiti by now. So go help them out! Check out this fundraiser that features some fellow etsians. You can bid for the items and Jen who owns Indie Fixx will donate that amount to Red Cross plus you get to keep the item. So go and help!

Click here to go to the website.

back in business!

School is a lot of work and getting the time to just relax is not very easy. But thankfully I took some time out to make my friend's bridesmaid jewellery. It was fun and relaxing! Here they are:


I've also made a couple more earrings so hopefully I can post those up this weekend.

Three weeks of teaching and I'm already pooped. Teaching can be an exhausting job. It's not just teaching lessons, but it's also organizing forms, money, getting help from parents, responding to parents when they write notes in agendas. And before you know it, the school day's over and you haven't had time to plan for the next day or prep for it. So you stay after school an extra three hours or more to get marking done, setting up the class, and a bunch of other little things.

And teaching grade 1 and 2s isn't that easy too. Just cause they're young doesn't mean teaching them is going to be a breeze. It just means more work cause they're soooo dependent and need the extra guidance every step of the way.

So the next person that tells me that I have it easy because I have summers off and long holidays, I'm going to punch them!

We, teachers, deserve those holidays. We make up for it by all the extra prep work and long hours at the school.

Thanks for listening to my little rant. The End.