Teacher Appreciation: Thanks a LATTE For All You Do!

I have done this one before, but when I did one 3 years ago I used a printable I found on Pinterest but this time I wanted to make my own printable. I printed this on a 5x7 photography paper from HP. I bought a kit that includes a 10 pcs 5x7 paper, 5 pcs 4x6 paper and 10 thick envelopes. It's actually a very impressive set of paper and envelopes. I used these for all my printables that I did to show appreciation for our teachers this year.

FREE Family Summer Camp at Bass Pro Shops

Mark your calendars because starting June 5th, you can attend FREE Family Summer Camps at Bass Pro Shops. 

However, there are none in Minnesota, but there are plenty of other locations across the U.S.

These free camps will be on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. They include a variety of activities like Crafts, Campfire Smores, Casting Pond, Merit Badge Workshops, Shooting Range for Archery, Shooting Gallery for Firearms, Family Workshops and many more.

Teacher Appreciation: Donut You Know You are the Perfect Teacher

Go Ahead and Print this off and use it. I made this as one of the many teacher appreciation gifts we are giving this week for Teacher Appreciation week. My daughter has her main teacher, plus 5 other teachers for various subjects. My son is in preschool so, he only has the one teacher but next year he will have more teachers. It's going to get expensive, but these teachers work so hard every day planning and teaching and deserve to be recognized. So, every day this week, my kids will be bringing gifts and certificates to school to give to their teachers.

This printable is wonderful to give with a gift certificate to a bakery or donut shop or even a box of donut.

I made this printable to go with a gift certificate to a bakery called Perfect Day Cakes. We have been there a few times to buy donuts and cupcakes. They are delicious.

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Pottery Lace Print Candy Dish

This could really be any kind of dish, I just thought these truffles looked so nice on it. I have actually used this mold to make butter dishes before.

This time I thought I would try out 2 things:

• Making a print with a lace doily I bought from Michael's
• Only using clear glaze on a section of the piece

I thought it turned out pretty neat and will experiment with both items more in the future. 

Again, like most of my pieces this was created with slab clay and handbuilding,

15 .5Pt AR Books About Pottery and Clay

1.8
I'm Good at Making Art by Eileen Day

3.0
Clay by Mary Firestone

3.1
Blue Stone Plot by Susan Blackaby
Polka Dot Penguin Pottery by Lenore Look

4.1
Clay by Rita Storey

4.3
When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor

4.4
Clay by Terry Jennings
The Clay Ladies by Michale Bedard

4.6
Clay by Vicki Wilt
Dream Something Big: The Story of Watts Towers by Dianna Aston

4.7
The Pueblo: Southwestern Potters by Mary Englar

4.8
Clay by Annabelle Dixon
Voices of Clay by T. Borregaard

5.4
The Nature and Science of Mud by Jane Burton

6.5
Clay by Cheryl Jakab

Wordless Wednesday: Aitkin Depot Museum

My family and I had a good time exploring the Aitkin Depot Museum. There is quite a bit to look at and it is very inexpensive to go there, so I think we will make another trip there when we are looking for something to do when we are at the cabin.