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New Additions To my Art room This year

1/14/2018

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Over the summer, I read a couple of books on Fung Shui (here and here) and a couple of articles about fung shui in the classroom.

As a result, I decided that first, I needed to get rid of some of the red decor elements I had every where in the room. Our school colors are red and columbia blue, so I've always been drawn to red as a decor color but it does cause excitability. Red is an intense color, but I had about 6 pieces of furniture painted red and a bright red rug on the floor. I didn't want to totally repaint everything so I took a little inspiration from Cassie Stephens and turned this stool into a paint pallette and transformed the rungs into brushes.

​I did repaint one red metal cabinet with a very light blue. I'm thinking I will zentangle a design on here or something fun someday, it just hasn't happened yet. 
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The smaller table in the photo below used to be hot pink and decoupaged with loud craft paper. I toned it down with the a layer of baby blue paint and put it near my desk. I need lots of little tables at the front of the room for each project as I always have tons of visuals and supplies. I put my desk at the front of the room, turned at an angle facing the door. It is not exactly in the center of the front, but it is off to one side and if I compare it to the bagua map, this is the perfect spot for knowledge and self cultivation. 

According to the bagua map (since my classroom door is in the southwest corner of the room, it isn't the ideal layout to work with the map, I am using the place on the chart below where the door icons are, is true North, with the left side being east and the right side being west). This puts my sinks in the perfect spot for career and life path, flowing water, etc. 

I also added a second white board to my room this year so that my students could face east instead of west. My clock is on the west wall, and now I can watch it but they can't really see it if they are facing front. And their backs are to the door, which is nice too, way less distractions. 

I feel like the 'flow' of my room and the energy has been better this year than ever before. Maybe it is just wishful thinking, maybe it is having nicer classes, or maybe there is something to this whole energy thing. 

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I saw this paintbrush wreath on the facebook group Art Teachers: Beg Borrow and Steal by Vallerie Ivy  and I immediately had to order the paint brushes and make one myself. I worked on this in July, before I went back to school. It hangs in the all outside my room now. My husband helped me drill holes in the paint brushes and, one near the metal and one on the end. I strung some aluminum wire in the holes and it when together quite quickly. I even had some paint brushes left over that I painted to use as hall passes. 

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This table got a makeover. It was solid red, and I painted the legs to look like pencils and added a little texture to the top. I used an old can of textured spray paint that was already in my room. 
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This is a full on Cassie Stephens copycat. I needed a new door wreath that would last all year and this was so cheap and easy to throw together, I could not resist. I got an extra piece of wood and painted a sign for the hall with my name on it (below). 
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