9/11 Freebie and Reminder

Just wanted to share a post with a freebie that is timely : Set this Circus Down: 9/11 Freebie:

Also reminder the below giveaway is ending soon:

Set this Circus Down: Survey Says : Survey and Giveaway

Reminder Survey Says

 Don't forget .......For a minute of your time you have a chance to win $25 to either Amazon or TPT....

Set this Circus Down: Survey Says : Survey and Giveaway:

Survey Says : Survey and Giveaway

One of the gals at the school likes to say I think with a computer. If they wanted something on the computer they came to me to make it, find it.......

So in my best Richard Dawson imitation ...Survey Says:  I am asking you my readers (and their friends) to answer my survey below ...... If it doesn't show on your screen below click HERE for the survey !!



These results are ONLY going to be seen by me for research purposes. After doing so please come back and enter the Rafflecopter below where when it ends one winner will win a $25 Gift  Card  to Amazon and another winner will win a $25 Gift certificate to TPT ......(give it a minute to load) Thanks for stopping by ! Good Luck!

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Spring Blogger Meet-up Blog Hop & Giveaway

I am linking up with 

Join the fun from the start HERE

So back in January, Holly from Mrs. Ehle's Kindergarten posted this on her Facebook

I was home recovering from surgery, and hurried to google the directions. Hmmm.....only a 4 hour drive.....easy peasy :) Then I forced recruited my friends/coworkers to go with. (Thanks Sue and Andrea)

Going to be honest, Google maps said 4 but it was 5+ (forgot the time zone difference there Google) but we made it.......First of all, if any of you have a chance to go to French Lick...........The place and staff is WONDERFUL!!!

Now, I can't say enough about Holly. She went above and beyond to make sure all of us enjoyed ourselves.

Here is a peek at some of the goodies she lined up for us

Wonderful name tags from Schoolgirl Style
Bags for each of us from Vera Bradley
Hot off the press (not in stores yet) Markers and pens from Scentos
(that was JUST the tip of the iceberg, let me tell you) 

Here is my table mates :

L to R: Em, Amanda, me, Sue, Andrea, Hilary

Just at our table clipart, uno were topics of discussion :)

Now, we were asked to bring an item to exchange with each other .  Here is what we got :

me: Easy Button (ideas found HERE) Sue: Base Ten Pool Noodles 

(Greg did a post HERE) and Andrea :Ink Joy Pens

This was so much fun! I met a fellow container hoarder (we won't say what she called herself, but we were in stitches) I am known to have my own container store in my basement :) 

Then Holly not only line up the goodie bags she also had door prizes.

Andrea and I won great prizes from Crayola (See Holly's post HERE)

My friend Sue won a gift certificate from Crystal Springs (she snuck by Greg w/o getting her picture taken)

So, if you follow you know I am anxiously awaiting returning to VEGAS....my poor friends and coworkers

have been hearing about it since last year.  Holly had mentioned she was giving away a certificate to one of the SDE National Conferences....... Woohoo!

Now I am not a classroom teacher, so I kept telling everyone that would listen at school, that I hoped one of the gals going with me would win. As I was already going for the annual blogger meetup and they would LOVE the conference. Well that was a separate drawing. When Greg was about to pull the name......I said (of course everyone was quiet so it was heard) "Hey Greg do you take bribes" (jokingly I swear) ......Guess what 

My friend Andrea is going to Vegas with me! She is a 

first grade teacher, so she is going to I teach 1st! 

There is not a more deserving person to win this! Thanks to SDE and Holly! Andrea and I have braved new territory lately (we BOTH got our gallbladders out weeks apart) and so many road trips we call ourselves Thelma and Louise ..... LOL.....

When you go to a blogger meetup, you meet so many talented and wonderful people. We talked about clipart, ways to use uno cards for sight words. The other two learned about blogging and powerpoint, clipart.....We are STILL decomposing what we have learned! 

Now the GIVEAWAY ...... one winner (pictures below) will win all of these prizes and MORE(follow the hop and enter at the rafflecopter at the end of the hop)

Head over to my table mate Hilary's Blog for the next stop  (Thanks again Holly! Thanks Greg for sharing your pictures....as for that bribe.....LOL)

Giveaway Winners

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Sending emails now, gals so check them ! Thanks everyone for joining in! Be back Monday!

Giveaway Time..........

It's Friday the 13th, (so superstitious) but I am going to make this a good day. I started this blog in June 2011, and I have over 200+ followers so let's catch up and have a giveaway!

I have found so many resources, friends via the blogs, I just wanted to say thank you. So let's roll with it. Enter via Rafflecopter below (give it a minute and the widget will load) I will draw on winner on the 21st at 12:02 amish.....Good Luck and follow the directions on Rafflecopter to get all your chances to win!

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Linky Party & Giveaway still going on(How to enter)

 My thoughts and prayers go out to those who were in the tornadoes this week, here in IL and throughout the US....


Just wanted to remind you that my Linky Party to share new blogs and giveaway is still going on

Make sure you

1st  Link up a new blog (yours or one you have found  if its one you found use your email,)

2nd Enter the giveaway using your email or facebook using the Rafflecopter widget 

 3rd You have 4 ways (or more ;-) ) of entering ...

Hadar ~Thanks to  Reagan I finally got word verification to stay off.....so you best enter :) 

So come on over and enter Here Here Here....

Don't Forget

My giveaway (I love love Rafflecopter) come over and enter and share Here!
Make sure once you link a new blog (either yours or one that you found) you use the Rafflecopter widget to enter to win!!!!

Newbie Linky Party(and a Giveaway ended)

Do you remember when you started your blogs, you so wanted to know that there was someone out there listening? I found 2 new blogs to share with you first up is a fellow Illinoisan First with Franklin and the other is one I found during the TPT Leap Year Sale.....2nd Grade Pad  ......Go over and leave them some love, . Here's what I suggest to get your blog out there:

1. Charity's Blog Traffic School (while I myself haven't done it, everyone who has that I follow raves about it)

2. Follow other blogs, comment on other blogs....


Let's Link up some new blogs......btw did I mention there is a $25 Amazon Card drawing on March 9th at 11:00 pm(cst) for everyone who submits links, so how do you enter you ask .....

1. Here's the Linky party(Use Newbie Blog for URL and name but your email unless of course you are linky to your own new blog)


2. Here's how you enter