Change Your Attitude to Gratitude

When Alanis Morressit changed from Jagged Little Pill to Thank You, she lost fans and some credibility. Funny, how much the words Thank You upset people. Well, prepare to be upset! I want to thank people who continue to vote for me in the International Education Blog Awards 2011.

Thank You got me thinking, (no it didn't hurt). How many people say thanks? How often do you do favours or help people out and they don't say thanks? Or worse still, how many times have you heard Irish people slating other Irish people who are doing well?

You see, in my opinion, gratitude is important, healthy, necessary and polite. And, we are members of a polite society, are we not?

TY. So, I would like to say a huge Thank You to all of the fabulous people who nominated me for an International Blog Award.



TY. I would like to thank everyone who voted, the Tipp Star for writing about me, Tipp FM for interviewing me and you guys, my blog readers.



TY. Thank you for stopping by, thank you for reading, thank you for sharing, thank you for voting, I appreciate you.



TY. Voting closes on this Tuesday December 13th, you can vote every day (if ya want)

 

I will keep you updated, for me; it is not about the winning. It never was! I have been nominated for an International Education Blog Award 2011....thanks to you guys.

 I checked my blog statistics and I want to say thanks to all the different countries that have seen my blog. There are a lot so:

Go raibh maith agaibh
Thank you
Grazie
Merci
Gracias
Saagha xalda hwa
谢谢
Danke
 ありがとう
Ha'evete
Dziakuju
Vandane
Xual mu wa
Grazzi hafna
Al ning bara
Natejchiri
Auw'e

There are many more people from countries that have stopped off here, but I will end it with the best
 language of all, Sanskrit (why do I love Sanskrit? Well that is another post for another
 day)  Anugurihiitosumi

Thousands Nominated for an International Education Blog Award

I am officially nominated for an International Education Blog Award 2011, thousands were nominated but only a few went to the public voting round. I was nominated in the of category of Most influential blog post.

 You can vote once a day. You can vote here.

You simply select the Category of  Most influential blog post.
Then in the box beneath the category you select my name Michelle Moloney King.

A huge thanks to these amazing Writers and Bloggers who nominated me:

Caren Kennedy
MissionV
Shirley Benton
Carnsoreboxer
Derekf03  (in 2 categories)
Alibali Walker
Trich Dee
Spit Toons Saloon
Alison Wells



I grabbed the below for more info on the Edublog Blog Award.

'Each year there are more and more nominations, and of increasing excellent quality, reflecting the the ever growing edublogosphere .

Unfortunately we can’t list every single nomination in each category — that’s too overwhelming for everyone.

Instead, our intrepid team of judges combed through thousands of nominated sites to whittle them down to a manageable number of shortlisted nominations for each category.

There are many factors that determine whether a nomination is shortlisted, and some categories were  considerably more competitive than others due to the incredible number of nominations.

 Factors used for shortlisting included for  influential posts – indicators of reader engagement (such as # of comments,  bookmarking, pingbacks)

Please do vote for me!

Christmas Presents - DIY 1

Bookish Christmas Presents

I remember celebrating Mothers Day, every year I would ask my mom what she wanted and she would always say, something 'homemade' my imagination could only ever stretch to a homemade card. The time and effort that went into these cards was something else. I was the one who wrote the poem and my twin was the one who drew the picture.

Here we are all these years later, me  teaching and writing and my sister is using art as part of her career.

I wonder if my mom's request for 'homemade' had an impact?  I would like to say hi to Sheevaun (for her home cooking skills) and Karen (for her sewing skills) ye are an inspiration ladies. Anyway, for those of you who like to be creative then check out the below.

Make Magnet Poems


Resources
Cardboard
Coloured paper
A paper print out of the XX*
Magnet Stripes
Scissors / blade (I bought mine for a few euro in Tessco)
Super Glue
Laminatetor / sellotape / resin
Freezer bag (to store the piece in)

*XX
You can go a wild as you want:
You can print out random words (to create your own fridge poems)
Print out cool quotes
Print out book names and authors (but make the authors as separate magnets so you have a fridge quiz)
Print out saying family members sayings
Print out holiday destination you went to and the dates (make as separate magnets so a fridge quiz to test your partner!)



Method

• Decide on the XX* you want to use and print/write.
• You could print/write different words on different coloured sheets or in different fonts.



Here is a picture of the formatting I used

If you are printing then:

• I would advise to use size 24, that you select line spacing of 2.
• Also if you are printing, a tip would be to select a word then press the 'CTRL' key and go on to select more words and then click change colour. (All of you selected words will change colour...saves time)
• If you want to download the poem I formatted click here to download.

Laminate the XX* or cover in sellotape or cover in resin. (this will protect them and ensure durability)

Cut a piece of the magnet strip to match the paper.

Stick them on to the magnet strip.



oh look at my handy TO DO re-usable sheet



You are done! If you look at my first picture, you will see that with the extra laminated paper I also made a re-usable to do sheet. If you use a marker you can wipe and re-use! It is the gift that keeps on giving!



NEXT TIME
I love buying books but hate giving them away. Even when I lend them to friends, I always note their name, the book and date so I know when to go after them for my book!

We have a very old (and unwanted) Encyclopaedia and I am going to turn one of the books into some cool things, in my next few Christmas posts I will show you how to make:

1. A Books Bead Bracelet
2. A Clock Book
3. Paper Daisies
4. A word covered bangle.

Goodbye old Encyclopaedia book cool stuff!


Not so crafty? See the below:

 I love this idea for a t-shirt. You would be surprised by the amount of times people have said to me, 'don't include that into your blog or book.' 'Honestly,' I tell them, 'you are not that interesting!' This t-shirt is about £20 on-line but you could go to a t-shirt place and get them to do one up for you.

Help Twitter Help you - Part 3

Hi there,

I have another post on Twitter help. Thank you for all the comments, facebook likes, tweets, re-tweets and even emails. I am so glad that your Twitter is getting the help it needs. Part one and part two are here.

Twistory This is out of this world amazing! You add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful!