D.Z. Mars Creative

My students are starting to have a lot of missing assignments.  What can I say... it's that time of year.  So, over my Thanksgiving break, I made this cute little mouse missing homework record sheet . I figured others might be having the same problem, so I posted it in my store on Teachers Pay Teachers.

So, this year, I'm trying really hard not to spend a ton of money on my classroom.  I think last year, I spent well over a thousand dollars, which is kind of silly.  This year, I want to totally change my color scheme (from every color known to man in a dizzying melange guaranteed to induce hyperactivity) to teal/lime/black.  I'm hoping to accomplish this with spray paint made for plastic (Rustoleum in light blue and lime green) and black background paper.  I reallllly want to buy black fabric, but I don't want to spend even more than I'm already spending. This is part one of how I am uniting my color scheme for (somewhat) cheap this year.  I will do more posts when I can actually get into my classroom, which is currently being used for a summer academy, I've been asking around for those cruddy wire shelving storage cubes that get put together with the corner connectors.  Everybody seems to have some to give away because they fall apart.  The tr...

Click here:  Sock Monkey Classroom Theme in my Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Tired of creepy-looking sock monkeys? They always kind of look ready to leap out of your closet late at night, don't they? This file hopes to remedy this by giving you 45 pages of cute, non-scary sock monkeys waiting to decorate your classroom instead of giving you nightmares. (OK, so there's a possibility they might still be a little creepy, but probably a little less than some others.) This theme revolves around boy and girl sock monkeys with different hats, and is based on red and black polka-dot and hearts backgrounds. All children's materials are suitable for both boys and girls. Heart and polka-dot background is used under the terms of use of and provided by www.MyCuteGraphics.com. All other artwork is mine except letters and numbers are from D'nealian.  This file includes the following: Table of Contents ….................... p1 Name tags......................................

Sooooo..... here's my latest hoodie, a pink, kawaii-style upcycled Old Navy hoodie, with cupcakes and hearts and everything.  It's in my etsy DaisyDreams shop.  It took me several hours to make, but it was worth it.  It's extra-super soft and awesome.  I keep thinking I should keep these for myself, but again, my hoodie collection is far too large as it is. Tomorrow is my 34th birthday!  My students are all up to something.  I think they just want an excuse to bring food and not do class.  I told them we could eat cake and do class at the same time. :0P More to come...  two days till the weekend!

hi there!  I'm back!  I let this blog lapse for some reason, like for more than 9 months, I think.  How terrible is that?  I'm not sure anyone was too disappointed. I got back onto this blog because  I felt the urge to start carving blocks again and printing thousands of pounds of underwear again.  So I have a whole new crop of those in my etsy store . I carved a kawaii sort of cupcake block two days ago.  Here's a picture of some underpanties I printed using them: They made me smile anyhow.  I'm planning on putting the block on hoodies some time soon.  You can get these panties here .  You can also convo me if size 5 is not your size, and I'll custom make you a pair.          I also carved a really cute little fox block, but it's not printing clearly on fabric because of the detail and the thickness of the fabric I was using.  I'll have to deepen all my cuts before I print with it a...