New Beginnings...Welcome Back to School Display

I am ending the summer and trying to keep my head above water! Seems like I go through little periods in life when nothing much goes on and then "BAM"! It all happens at once. School has started for the teachers and that fact coupled with health issues has really messed with my blog writing. I know that's not a good thing, but there are just so many hours in a day.

I made a Welcome Back display for the high school library using old books "folded" to make bird houses. I began the display with this precious chalkboard flower pot I found at HOBLOB for $4!

Words can be written in chalk and erased just like a real chalk board.

I used gerber daisies and dictionaries to add to the "theme".

My library partner's father made this giant #2 pencil...can you tell where the tin can is? It's almost 5 feet tall and has a sharpened point ( pictured below).

Bringing in bird houses, small pots of yellow pencils and tissue paper added interest.

At Christmas, I plan to make the birdhouses into angels and use a vintage book and sheet music theme for the tree.

We have a library table in back of the desk so the dictionary theme continued there.

Ceramic rain boots (also on sale at the Hob for $4 each...they once were $19.99..yikes) were filled with the daisies and yellow pencils.

You know, cute, but $19.99? Really...

I generally do something a little more "grown up" but this year I thought a little whimsy (I detest that word) was in order!
Monday begins another year...oh, the promise of a new year...new boxes of crayons, shiny notebooks, no doodles anywhere...I love the feeling of "new" that comes with a fresh beginning.

Join me at Beverly's Pink Saturday!

And come by for the Saturday Nite Special!

Beginnings are good....