Spreading Holiday Cheer

The holidays are just around the corner, and as always I feel in the spirit of giving thanks.  One of the things I am extremely grateful for this year is the blogging community of teachers that I have joined.  I have learned so much and have been inspired by so many!  Every teacher in the blogging community is so kind, and ready to share their ideas and helpful hints.  Because of all of this, I decided that it would be wonderful to create a linky party to celebrate all of those amazing bloggers and give them thanks.  So, this linky party is for anyone who would like to spread some holiday cheer and thank those that have inspired or helped them through their teacher/blogger journey.  

All you need to do is the following:

1. Think of a teacher/blogger that inspires you.
2. Copy the picture below and paste it into a PowerPoint document.  
3. Add text over top of the picture that you copied & pasted into your PowerPoint answering the questions that it asks you.
4. Save that as a picture to your computer.
5. Share that picture on your own blog, instagram, Facebook, or wherever you would like to spread that holiday cheer to teachers far and near.
6. Write a blog post about the teacher/blogger you chose and link up your blog post below! 

Ok then!  Let's start off the holiday season in good spirits and enjoy spreading the cheer as far as we can!  Enjoy!! i cannot wait to read about all of the amazing teacher/bloggers out there!

Happy Holidays!!

An InLinkz Link-up

Made it Monday: TPT Seller Organizer

Hello everyone!!! I am so very excited for this Monday Made It with the lovely Tara over at 4th Grade Frolics! This is one of my favorite Linky Parties because she gives everyone an opportunity to showcase some of the amazing creativity that all of my fellow bloggers work on each and every week. I had been so disappointed that I could not attend the TPT conference in Vegas this year, but was so happy and thankful for all of the follow bloggers who came back and blogged about their trip and what they learned.  I'm pretty sure I read each and every post about Vegas and i learned so much.  I took everything I learned very seriously and have been working rigorously to follow the advice of all those amazing people!  Therefore, i began working on a project to get myself organized and help promote my products and TPT store.  I have been working on this product for quite some time now creating, deleting, starting over, fixing, and tweaking and it was worth every second!!  Sooooo... I would love to take you through a picture walk of my new product with some detailed explanations!  I hope you enjoy!

(click on the graphic above to be taken to my tpt store)

This is the front cover of MY organizer.  I created 3 different covers that are editable so that you can put the name of your store on the front!  I am obsessed with all of the Melonheadz graphics which I am sure many of you are, so each cover includes those graphics!  They make every tpt product so much cuter!!

This section is for you to be able to keep track of the items you sold every day, every month, every year. It will help you see which items are selling the most, which ones may need to be updated, and how much money you are making.  There is space for date, product name, and amount of $ made from each purchase.

This section is where you can get your creative juices flowing!  Here you will be able to keep track of all those amazing ideas going on in your brain!  If you are like me I have 50 million little scraps of paper laying everywhere where I jot down ideas that pop into my head.  Some ideas are in notebooks, some are in my planner, some are on napkins.  WIth this, I can keep all my ideas in one neat and organized place.  There is room for product details, clip art you could use for that product, backgrounds that would look nice, and fonts.  

The section is where you can keep track of any giveaways you may want to have on any of the products in your store.  Giveaways are a great way to build up your followers and create great relationships among other bloggers!  You can ask others to join in on your giveaway which will bring more followers to them as well!  There is room for giveaway details, promoting ideas, and who is included in the giveaway.  For the promoting section you can jot down ideas on where you want to promote your giveaway (IG, facebook ect) and you can jot down ideas on how follower will have to enter to win.

Throwing a sale for your TPT store is always fun, and it's a great way to get your products out there to the public!  Everyone loves a good sale, and many people have your products on their wish list in hopes that those items may go on sale one day for them to be able to afford it (or justify buying it lol).  Here you can jot down your sale theme (Ex: swimming into summer with a great sale).  You can also write down your sale percentage amount, sale dates, and products that will be included.

I dont know about you guys, but I have about 16 pages of wish listed items that i have found on tpt and eventually want to buy.  Since I have such a big list I tend to forget that they are on there.  With this section, you can keep track of the items you have on your wish list that you absolutly must have at some point.  There is room for the item name, the cost of the item, the date you purchased it, and there is a section for how you can use the product.  I like this section because some times we all need a little pep talk in order to justify buying something.  If you have this space to truly think about how you can incorporate the item successfully into your classroom then it will be worth while to buy!

I am a HUGE supporter and avid user of to do lists.  I have them all over my house and on my smart phone in order to keep track and check things off as i go.  I just love the feeling of writing in that check mark when i finish something on my list!  This section has a to do list for each month and there is also an "extra page" included at the end that you can add to each months check list if you run out of room.

Finally, the last section of this pack is a monthly calendar section where you can keep track off all of your life's events so that you can plan time to sit back, relax, and do what you do best which is create!  The calendars are updated for the 2014-2015 year from august through July.  

Well, I hope you like what you see and if you decide that this may be something that would work for you I hope you enjoy it and it brings you great organizational frame of mind!  I will be keeping in touch with how it works for me in the coming months!  

Also, you can click on the front cover of this pack at the top of this page to be taken to my TPT store!

Summer Vacation & a SALE!

WooHoo!!!! I can't believe I am finally getting a chance to go on vacation with my family again!  It has been so very long (7 years).  I'm going with my parents and my 15 year old brother and sister (they r twins).  We are heading to Washington D.C. for the weekend then making our way to Virginia beach which I have never been to.  Washington DC is one of my favorite places to visit.  I would live there if the cost of living wasn't so high.  

Anyway while I am there I fully plan on taking lots and lots of pictures to document all of the amazing monuments and museums we see!  I plan on making a unit out of it about United States history and the monuments so keep an eye open for that in the future!  

The BIG news is that while I'm gone I will be having a 20% off sale of my entire TPT store!  It will be from now through Sunday!  If you have anything on your wishlist or you are getting ready for the beginning of the school year go check out my store, The Magic of Teaching and see if anything catches your eye!  Just click on the picture below to be taken directly to my store!  Then shop away!  Oh and if you don't mind please take a second to hit that little follow button at the top of my store page to become a follower!!  Thanks so much!

I hope you all have a lovely week in the sun!  

Friendly Reminder!! - Christmas in July SALE!!

Hello all!  I just wanted to write a short post to give everyone a friendly reminder to head on over to my facebook page, Kacie Filippino (The magic of teaching) to find out what product is going to be on sale today in my TPT store!  Today's product is one of my biggest sellers and it's on sale for 30% off!!  If you click on the picture below you can be taken directly to my facebook page!

If you go and check it out please don't forget to like my facebook page!

Have a Tremendous Thursday!!

Christmas in July

Hello everyone!  I am truly very excited to be participating in the Christmas in July linky hosted by Blog Hoppin!  This is my first time participating in this so hopefully I get everything right the first time!  Christmas is still to this day my favorite holiday of the entire year!  I so enjoy getting together with family and friends to celebrate!  Baking cookies, cutting down Christmas trees, decorating the house, lighting evergreen Yankee candles, participating in an ornament exchange, going caroling, playing in the snow... There are so many fun things to do during that time of year!  This linky makes me wanna do it all right now!  Anyway... since I am in the festive mood I am also going to be playing along and putting things from my TPT store on sale for the next few weeks!  I will be putting more than one product on sale and some will be on sale for two days in a row.  Sale percents will change.  I may put some on sale for 20% or I may be feeling generous and put some on sale for 30%-35%!!! Keep an eye out on my facebook page to see which items are up for sale!!

Each day I will be posting the products that will be on sale in my TPT store on my facebook page.  All you need to do is go to my page, hit the like button and get updates everyday on which products are going on sale.  Just click on the facebook button right above to be taken to my page!  

Remember my TPT store is THE MAGIC OF TEACHING!!!!  Also click on the Christmas in July blog hoppin button at the top of this post to be taken to their blog to see what other amazing bloggers have also linked up! 

I hope you enjoy the sale!  I definitely plan on getting a lot of goodies!!

Wish List Wednseday

As you can see I am linking up with the ladies of Owl-Ways Be Inspired for their lovely Wish List Wednesday linky party!  

I am so excited to participate in this for the first time!  I am currently trying to do everything in my power to get my mind off of Vegas where I am not at right now :(  I am so very sad that I am not there.  All of the instagram photos look amazing and I just wish I was there to meet all of the amazing bloggers that ispire me each and every day.   I truly hope they are having an AMAZING time!!!  Anyway things have been moving at such a fast past for me recently and I have received such amazing feedback from so many of you about some of my products.  It's so amazing to hear feedback from some of my idols in the blogging world!!

There are two items from my store that have been wish listed the same amount.  These items are my Harry Potter unit and my Whole Brain Teaching Classroom rules.  

This product is one of my favorite and the one I am most proud of.  I am a true Harry Potter fanatic myself so I very much enjoyed making this!  It is posted in my TPT store for $20.00 normally, but for wish list Wednesday I will be putting it on sale for 40% off making it on sale for $12.00!!!  It such a great deal for a 117 page packet full of magic!  

This product goes with a few others in my store that go along with Whole Brain Teaching.  The Super Improver Wall is a great asset in any classroom!  It gives students so much incentive to do their best all day everyday!  This product usually sells for $6.00 in my TPT store, but I am making it half off for Wish List Wednesday which makes it $3.00!!! 

Make sure to click the pictures above to go to my store and check out what both of these packs are all about!  If you like what you see grab them while they are on sale!!  I will keep the sale going from now until tomorrow (Thursday) night at 11:00!  Also to see some more amazing products on sale from all of the other wonderful bloggers make sure to click on the Owl-ways Be Inspired button at the top on this post!  You will be happy that you did!  There are some amazing things posted for you to grab while time permits!!  Happy browsing and happy shopping!!! 

Monday Meet Up

Happy Monday everyone!! I can't believe June is almost over!!  It's flying by so fast.  I just had a wonderful weekend with great friends so I am pretty pooped on this Monday morning.   However I am not too tired to post a Monday meet up with the Teaching Tribune!! I love these links because i get to meet so many wonderful bloggers with such great talent!  So today the idea was to discuss 3 things we are thankful for which I think is a great idea so I went to town with this one!  I hope you enjoy!

Remember to take a minute today and be thankful for all those wonderful things you have in your life!  I know I will be thinking about them a lot today thanks to this linky!   I cant wait to go read everyone else Monday meet up posts!  Have a Magnificent Monday!

Five for Friday!

YEAH!!! I am so excited to finally be participating in this awesome linky from Doodle Bugs Teaching!  I literally think i read as many of them as possible on bloglovin but have never had the time to do my own.  I swear bloglovin is like my daily newspaper!  hahah.  Anyway... I'm still very new to all of this so hopefully i link everything up right!  here goes nothin!

Is anyone else OBSESSED with this show??!!! I had heard so much about it but i never have time to watch tv.  Well, my cousin has an account with HBO Go so he gave me his log in information... Lets just say that i have probably gained at least 3 pound this week, lost a ton of sleep, and have dreamed about good looking kings and barbarians allll week!  hahaha.  I have  literally watched an entire season and a half within one week.  i may have a problem lol.

I mean COME ON!!!! is he not one hunk of a man???!!!! I want me a barbarian!!!! :)

I dont know about everyone else, but I nanny in the summertime for 4 kids.  May sound like a lot but I get to go to the pool everyday!! This week i have gone to the pool 3 out of the 5 days and they have been wonderful!!  i mean seriously how could i ever complain about working in the summer when i get to lay out in the sun all day and read books!!! it's fabulous

So im sure all of you know who's blog button that is above!  She is absolutely wonderful!  i am currently planning my wedding and I have been in the market for hand made signs for my wedding day.  Signs for instagram and photo booths.  I follow her on every social network site and i have seen some of her wonderful work that she posts in her ETSY shop!  I contacted her and asked her about the things I wanted.  OH MY GOSH!  She was WONDERFUL!  She made several examples for me and they all looked amazing.  I am using her for all of my signs i need for my wedding and I couldnt be happier... So if your in the market for signs for a special event go look her up!

Here is an example of what she has made for me!

Isnt it so stinkin cute?! I cant wait to use it!

While on the subjects of wedding, I have been trying to get wedding dress ready with healthy eating and exercise.  one of my new favorite things is naturally flavor infused water!  it is AMAZING!  Its also known as detox water.  I drink at least 3-4 glasses of it everyday and it tastes amazing and makes me feel great!  You can get recipes and ideas for it on instagram under the account "Detoxguide" or you can browse on pinterest.  Take my word for it and TRY IT!! you will be so happy that you did!

I mean doesn't it just look so good!    

YEP...I did it... i got a spray tan for the first time in my life.  I have a wedding to go to this weekend and I was pasty white.  I was so nervous to go because they tell you that for best results you should go topless and get an expert to spray it on you instead of going into a machine...sooo i did both those things.  The girl was absolutely wonderful and made me feel so comfortable.  I went last night and the rules are that you are not allowed to shower for 24 hours after.  I have been freaking out because tiny little spots show and some streaks before you shower, but after you shower...WOW!! i look amazing!  i look like i just got back from the beach!  no orange color or anything!  I would definitely recommend it to anyone especially those of you who love to be tan and go in tanning beds.  Save you skin and your life and start going spray tanning.  You have to make sure you are going to a good place and I recommend a spa.  I go to a place called "body bar" in Pittsburgh and they are wonderful.  It was well worth the risk and the money!  Next five for Friday I will have to post a picture of me in my dress for the wedding with the beautiful spray tan!

Anyway... that has what my busy life has consisted of this week!  I hope everyone else has been thoroughly enjoying their summer!  Cant wait to read everyone else Five for Friday!

Workin on It Wednseday

Hello everyone!! My name is Kacie and this is my first time linking up with kindergals for their workin on it Wednesdays!  I am overjoyed to be doing this today!  I'm fairly new to the bloggin community and this is actually my second link up ever!! I did my first one yesterday with the teachers tribune.  

I have been kicking my butt to get my grad school work done so that I have time to sit back, relax and BLOG!!! I like it, I love it, and I want some more of it heheh! I have like 6 different projects in the making right now but one in particular that I would love some advice or ideas on from some fellow bloggers!

Anyway... right now I am working on creating center signs.  I want to create as many as possible.  That is where you guys come in!  if anyone has any suggestions on specific centers i will add it to my project!  

Here are some examples of what I have made so far...

There are a few more than that already made but all together i only have 7 thus far.  So if you have any thoughts or suggestions for some centers please leave a comment!  Everyone in this blogging community is so sweet and generous and everyone has such amazing talent I would be honored to receive some feedback!  Even feedback about the signs themselves is great!  

Well until i hear from some of you I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday! Keep dry!!

HELLO EVERYONE!!!!!! I am so excited for this blog post because I AM HAVING A GIVEAWAY!!!! I just finished creating my behavior coupons!  it took me quite sometime to finish this project but I am very happy with the finished product.  I posted them to my TPT store for $8.00.  However since I am so excited about this product and the summer sun is making me so happy I decided that I am going to give  2 of these away to 2 lucky winners!  I'll explain how to enter and win the giveaway at the bottom of this post, but first I want to show you what is included!

So here is the beautiful front cover!! hehe :)  Everyone loves a cute cover right?!

Now... Here comes the good stuff!!! COUPONS COUPONS COUPONS

These are all the coupons included in the pack.  Lots of color and lots of glits and glam!  I myself am a HUGE fan of reward coupons.  if you have seen any of my previous posts you already know this!  I had such great feedback when i posted these to my instagram account so i wanted to give some of my fabulous followers a chance to win a set of their own!  

Soooo... Here is how to win....

I am trying my best to continue to build up my blogging followers.  I absolutely love this new journey I have embarked on and I just want to keep chugging along.  So this giveaway is totally a way for me to try and gain more followers.  

Step 1:  Follow me on Facebook under The magic of teaching (Kacie Filippino)

Step 2:  take a picture of some part of this blog post.

Step 3:  repost the picture on facebook with a comment about me and my blog.

Step 4:  Tag me in your facebook post so that i can see it and know that you did it.

I know it seems like a lot, but I am really trying to build up my facebook base.  I can use all the help I can get.  I will  write each persons name down on a piece of paper and pull 5 names out of a hat (i will show proof of this on my facebook page) Those 4 winners will each receive a free copy of these coupons via email!!!!!  I will close the giveaway at 8:00 pm tonight!  Good luck!!! I cant wait to see where this goes!  I am so excited!