Organization, One Year Anniversary Giveaway and Sale!

I am linking up with Blog Hoppin's Teacher Week...Why I like my organization tip.

Two Things That I Love:
1. Don't you love cute, decorative file folders? I don't like the thought of putting them in a file drawer so they are not in view to be admired. 

2. Also, I love translucent file boxes with different colored latch tops. 

The Mashup:
Why not put them together for a snazzy look? Then I can organize my files by topic or "genre," if you will, and not get them lost in the massive amounts of papers that I have accumulated as a teacher and now as a Teachers Pay Teachers buyer/seller.

Honestly, I am not naturally an organized person, so I have to really try. I am a stacker and can stack with the best of them. I just don't think in an organized way. When I organize files, I cannot remember my thought process of where I was filing things and why. So... my solution is to have multiple file boxes that have cute tops that look adorable with added decoration and are also portable to and from school or to and from one area of my home office. 

Here are some more examples of my file boxes.

{Follow the link at the end of this post to read about other teacher bloggers and their organizational methods.} 

In other news...

Great news!

I have officially been a seller on TeachersPay Teachers for one year now! 

It has been a very fun adventure! 

To celebrate, I am having a

 sale in my store on Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything will be 20% off! 

Stop by to see if there are any new products that you could use in your classroom.

Thank you for celebrating with me!
Carrie
                       BTW,       

Click HERE to go to the Blog Hoppin' post 

for lots of great organizing ideas.

One-Year Anniversary!

Hello! In honor of my one-year anniversary of this blog, I thought I would post a second entry! Pretty impressive, I know!

This time last year, I loved searching Pinterest and Teachers Pay Teachers for helpful ideas and products to empower me as a teacher. (That sounds a little dramatic, but they have both added so much to all of our lives as teachers and as "real people." Can I get an amen to that?) The things that inspired me the most were the cute educational crafts, anchor charts, and Common Core practice pages with clean lines and cute, readable fonts. I have been so inspired and energized in my lesson planning and teaching because of all of those teachers. Thank you to everyone out there for your hard work!

This summer, I still enjoy doing those things, but my main hobby is reading teacher blogs. I like reading about how they use their creations in class, how they got started as bloggers, and how they are connected to others in the blogging community. That is pretty neat! Also, I would like to thank Jessica Stanford for her tutorials that she recorded and posted to help people like me get going in the blogging world. For real, thank you!!

If you would also like to learn from Jessica’s tutorials, please click here. After I watch more of them, my blog will look even better! (I needed to "Just Do It.")

Jessica, you rock!!