A lot of these tips are very helpful! If you are starting your own Etsy Shop you need to check out this post!
Quote of the Week Wednesday
Turbo Princess by Ted Noten
Jewellery must be sentimental and never look for compromise.
Jewellery must be owned by the public if it wants to touch the public.
Jewellery must steal and seek to be stolen.
Jewellery must cherish its enemies in order to make friends.
Jewellery must forget the psychoanalysis of the studio.
Jewellery must go out into the street to eat and be eaten.
Jewellery must be shamelessly curious.
Jewellery must look where to attack and neglect its defences.
Jewellery must use traditional codes in order to break them.
Jewellery must neither forgive nor forget.
Jewellery must ignore all prescription.
- Ted Noten - Jewellery Manifesto
Substitute Update
Since starting substituting I have been in the classroom everyday. It have been great to meet new people and see the students faces light up when they learn something new.
I have known that I wanted to teach for a long time. However, it was always more hypothetical. Now that it has been a reality I feel like I have made the right choice. Every day has brought me so much joy.
I love my job.
I love that it is different everyday.
I love meeting new students.
I love the funny things that they say.
And most of all I love learning how to be a teacher. Watching experienced teachers work has been amazing. I have learned something every single time.
Today I sat in on a second grade class and the teacher was reading a variation of Cinderella. At the end of the book she reminds the students that the story is a Fairy Tale. She tells the girls that Prince Charming is not real and that he does not fall in love with you because you put on a pretty dress. Teaching students that Fairy Tales are fun to read but have no connection to real life is a valuable lesson that takes many people a very long time to learn. It was incredible to see that she is sculpting the minds of the future leaders in such a strong and truthful way. Because of her the students know that they can make their own way in the world. If you ever read this, Thank you for being amazing.
For the Love of Snow
Living in the South for four years was wonderful but there were somethings that I missed. Snow being one of them. So happy to be home in New York for the Blizzard Jonas!
Quote of the Week Wednesday
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, of all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
- William Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
