Friday Fun

  Fridays are the best day of the week when you teach school.  Fridays are filled with a sense of anticipation of the weekend.  This year our speech schedule was super busy on Friday.  Lady A and I have vowed never to do that again.  Fridays are for fun.  On Fridays, you never know what may happen.
  Today I am going to share the Princess's latest thrift store find,  (Cue Macklemore singing "I'm gonna pop some tags.")  As I have said before we are big thrift store, dollar store, make it yourself people.  Whenever we are near a thrift store, we always stop in to check it out.  This past Tuesday we were in Goodwill when we found this gem.

You know this young lady, don't you?

   Olivia is the main character in a series of books written and drawn by Ian Falconer.  Princess loves Olivia because she is a pig after her own heart.  She loves to perform and her life is a vintage lover's dream.  Princess loves the vintagey colors and illustrations in Olivia books.

This is an Olivia theatre (Olivia would never spell it the American way too provincial.)  When you open it up it looks like this.

 

See this insert.

It had even more set backgrounds and characters.

     Indoor recess in third grade may never be the same.   Princess is in a quandary....should she laminate these pieces to keep them safe from grubby fingers?  Everything is a pretty hefty cardstock weight.  She is afraid laminating will take away from the muted tones. What do you think?

Oh and by the way, she paid a whopping $3 for this.  There is nothing like a thrift store find to make your heart soar.