collecting collections

For the past couple of weeks, my mom and a few of friends, had been cruising all over Europe.  The were in London, France, Ireland, Iceland, and Canada.  My mom knows my souvenir style, I am a lover of tchotchke souvenirs :)  My most favorite tchotchke is the plastic souvenir snow globe.

They are actually becoming harder and harder to find, which is sad, because they are moving towards the more fancy resin and glass ones.

I try and make sure to pick one up from every place that I travel to.  I have been collecting them since high school...

So, here are my pressies from her trip:

I also have one from Iceland but the photo of it didn't turn out :(

My snow globe collection is quite large.

So large that I have had to move it from our house and into my classroom.

The students love to shake them so it works out good for everyone...

And here they are all together on the bookshelf...

Insane right?!

See...that is why I said this dress was totally me and perfect for my soon to be!!

Love it!!

So yeah, I collect collections :)

xo

janel

wanderlust

Here is the lovely map that I was telling you all about.  I found it while searching "Cute US Maps" in google.  I liked the color scheme and the doodles inside of the states :) 

This post is more for me than you all really because I wanted a place to document all of the places that I have traveled so far:

(You can click on the map to make it bigger)

This is also a great reference to look back on to see where I still need to travel!  One of my life goals is to visit each of the 50 states so, as you can see, I still have a few to go :)  Dear West Coast, I will be conquering you soon :) Love, Me.

So..who wants a visitor!!!

Besides all of the obvious reasons that I love my job as a teacher, another perk is the fact that I have 2 months to travel in during our summer.  

Do you live in one of the states I haven't visited?

Do you know of anything cool to see in any of the states that I haven't visited??

Let me know!!

xo

janel