About a year ago I was reading through the blogs that I follow and I saw this post about a Paint by Number wall: This is from the blog: http://www.designspongeonline.com: this fantastic wall makeover comes from scott and cheryl white in michigan. inspired by paint by number artwork, they decided to turn an ebay painting into their own custom wall mural. after their paint-by-number painting arrived from ebay, scott made a color transparency of it and borrowed a friend’s projector to trace it on the wall with pencil. scott and cheryl created a chart of all the colors, recreating their own numbering system. then after a trip to michael’s to pick up paints, scott and cheryl painted in their large-scale paint-by-numbers mural by hand over a period of eight months. the final results are stunning and i’m so glad scott and cheryl had the inspiration to create something so fun on their walls. well done, guys! Read more at Design*Sponge  http://www.designspongeonline.com/201

I was reading my favorite blogs and I came across one of my favorite recipes.  It is from the blog: http://www.theidearoom.net Today I would like to share with you my son’s recipe for Orange Julius.  He loves to bake and be in the kitchen.  He has even expressed a desire to start his own recipe blog, which I think would be a lot of fun for him.       He is also taking a required Home and Family Class at school and is right in the middle of the cooking portion of the curriculum.  He came home from school really excited about the Orange Julius he had made earlier that day, and asked if he could make it for us as an after school snack.  Ummm…yes please! It was delicious!  And since he is a reader of my blog, I thought it would be fun to post his yummy recipe here to share with all of you.  This recipe tastes just like the real Orange Julius they used to have in the mall when I was his age. Orange Julius 6 oz. frozen orange juice concentrate 1 cup milk 1 cup water 1/4 cup

Who am I? So I was listening to a random shuffle of songs on my ipod when I thought about putting a personal profile on my online classroom for my students.  I've been told that I need to do it so my students get a sense of who I am and who I was as a student.  I've always avoided it because really how do you describe yourself?  We all like to believe that we are these adults with everything figured out and really how interesting is that?  Then one of my favorite songs (I'll mention it later) came on and I thought about a new spin to it…how would my friends from elementary school describe the type of student I was?  and how would my friends now describe me?  would they be similar?  would they be different?  We all like to believe that we are so advanced as adults and that we are much more dignified and sophisticated than we were at 6yrs old…after all I don't think a 6yr old eats goat cheese or loves a great glass of Merlot. So, I guess I would describe 6yr old me a

Thanks to one of my new favorite blogs (iambaker) I was able to bake this heart cake for my Great Aunt Josephine's 91st birthday. I got a bunch of cool tips from this site from how to get cake layers that are flat. I use these cake pans: The trick is to wrap soaking wet towel strips around the pans and put them on a cookie sheet when the go into the oven. Now that I think about it, it makes total sense...usually the cake around the edges heats too fast so it doesn't rise but the middle bakes more slowly..and it rises. This results in a big-ol ugly bump in the middle of the pan which makes your cake look a little crazy. Now you know how to make professional looking cakes. I also used one of the best $2 purchases ever....That fancy little cake cutter. It ensures that you get even layers for frosting. I am Baker also gave instructions for frosting cakes. I loved this one and with the correct tip, it was so easy! To how to frost the cake with these fancy little