Back to School

Newly for sale in my Etsy shop.

Edited to add:
Haha....on one very sleepy evening I actually did 
update you on the school stuff.  
Oh.my.goodness......please forgive me for the repeats!
Remind me never to post when exhausted.
However, there is more information in this post
and it took me a while to write so it stays.

On this lovely day in Lancaster County

Chelsea and I have some plans this morning.

Nothing fancy....

just some cafe time together.

Then, a bit later this afternoon, 

 I'll be off to that Lancaster City Middle School

to make hot chocolate mugs with 

the kiddos there.

Some of you said they were waiting to hear 

how it went after the first time.

Oops. 

Sorry.

Well, I may be late in letting you know

but here it is.

I had a blast.

Teaching is one of my favorite things

to do.....ever.

These kids were fun.

They may have been a bit skeptical when they 

came in but one girl expressed it well when 

upon leaving she turned and thanked me

then said, 

"This was actually fun!".

Ha.

That's my payday.

Love it!

The second time I went 

the kids were so 

exhausted.

They had been on a field trip that day

so I took it easy on them and after getting

our candle making demos done

 the second group and I 

played 20 questions.

I have an hour with each group.

We also put the wicks into their mugs

in preparation for today's adventure.

There really isn't three hours worth of candle making

to teach middle schoolers.

Making candles is a LOT of hurry up and wait.

And since I'm carrying in and out everything

we had to do things that could be done and

set up within an hour.

Last time I demo'd 

spearmint tea candles.

They are now listed in my shop.

For the first class I made tea lights 

that were headed to 

Australia.

The students were properly impressed at 

my world wide fame!

LOL

So....that leads me to trying to figure out how to fill

the waiting time today.

Maybe some fragrance identification game.

Yep!  

I'm thinking they'll be sniffing the oils today

and running a bit of a relay.

In between putting marshmallows on their 

hot chocolate mugs.

It is going to smell soooo good in the classroom today!