Beginning of Summer Craftiness

Since my blog is called "Reflections of a Frazzled Teacher", it makes sense that I haven't posted something in a long while.  School this year was overwhelming.  I had a lot more students, was dealing with some new technology initiatives, and in general I was working a lot harder than I had in a long while.  This spring, I was in charge of our Academic Super Bowl Team (competition in April), and as Junior class adviser I had prom to organize (also in April).  AND to top it off I agreed to be one of the grandparents in our school's production of Willy Wonka (show was the first weekend in May).  Needless to say my April was very, very busy.  However, all of the extras I was involved with were well worth it, and more.

All that leads up to the picture I'm posting.  I'm not ordinarily a crafty person.  I enjoy scrapbooking, I know how to sew, and I have done a lot of other kinds of crafts.  

This year, for teacher appreciation week, the parent group gave us a lot of gifts.  Among these gifts were some of those reusable insulated tumblers.  One of them (not pictured) was from a company, with a company logo on it.  The other was a colored (mine was orange) tumbler.  I also had purchased, from Goodwill, a similar tumbler that I later noticed was cracked.  I bought this tumbler sometime in January or February.

Well, the Goodwill tumbler was perfectly usable, but unattractive because it was cracked.  I presume that's the reason it was donated to Goodwill.

So I decided to go to the craft store (or maybe it was the scrapbooking section at Walmart) and buy some stickers to cover up the crafts and perk up the clear tumbler.   Since all of the teachers at my school received tumblers, I decided to perk those up too.  A little nail polish remover took care of the corporate logo, although it roughed up the shiny plastic slightly.

Anyway, pictured here are the results of my endeavors.  If you try this yourself, make sure that you get stickers that are NOT paper-based.  You'll want plastic ones for it to be successful.