This slow-paced background story takes place over a span of fifteen years!
Scroll down to the bottom to see the list of all my current auctions on eBay.
2006
2018 (twelve years later)
March
do-it-yourself lazure kit from Charles & Karen Andrade is at my door
ok! now I can check something off of my Waldorf bucket list!
March - November
I procrastinate because I'm scared I will mess it up
in fact, for months I don't even open the box
this turns out to be a big problem because packed in the little box the brushes are not being stored correctly and so the bristles get warped
(they should be stored standing up on the bristles, not lying down)
November
I buy Dick Bruin and Attie Lichthart's new book, Painting at School: A Handbook for Elementary and Secondary Education in Waldorf Schools and discover that it has information about lazure in it, which gets me excited again. "Rudolf Steiner's color recommendations for school buildings," pp.67-71, explains how to do the technique and gives the color schemes recommended by Steiner for the Goethe School in Hamburg (1925), the Stuttgart barracks (1922-1923), and the London school (1925).

Painting at School
by Dick Bruin & Attie Lichthart
I finally decide to move Zac out of his bedroom and lazure it
(this is a safe project because it's the smallest room in the house; also
it's my Winter Break so I have two weeks off from teaching and I'm confident I can get it done)
Thursday, December 27
patch hole in wall
Saturday, December 28
sand patch, wash walls, tape around windows, doors, and trim
2019
for the month of January
prime Zac's walls and the black marker scribbles... over and over
lazure must be done on a background of ABSOLUTELY PURE white
I'm frustrated because I'm not getting it done very swiftly and, meanwhile, Zac has no bedroom
Thursday, January 31
ultimately I take off painter's tape and just move Zac back into his pure white bedroom
February - August
Zac, who is three years old, writes on the walls of his primed pure white bedroom, so we paint it Orchid House (from Valspar) and turn it into the Science Room
for our homeschool co-op, Little Bluestem. I move Zac into my bedroom so that I can monitor him. When he stops writing on the walls of rooms, he can have his own bedroom again!
One day while I'm teaching, Zac (still three years old) gets into the lazure supplies, because I left them out in the hallway, and opens the little bottles. Much of the paint ends up on the floor and is wasted.
Sunday, September 1
I decide that a bedroom, even a tiny one, is too ambitious of a project since I'm apparently terrified of lazure. I go looking for something smaller. I choose the one odd partial wall in our downstairs stairwell. This will be easy to get to and needs painting anyway, since it is currently covered with muddy fingerprints.
2021
Monday, January 4
I decide that I am probably never going to lazure anything, so I add the paint (which is almost exactly like Stockmar concentrated watercolor paint) to the art room shelves and I put the brushes away in the attic. Just on the off chance that I will want them someday...
So, much of my life goes like this. I collect things eagerly -- like any other teacher and homeschooling mom -- and then there is a large discrepancy between what I own and what I actually use. Yet, many of the things I have would be useful to someone else! Lazure brushes are expensive and beautiful. They are not ever going in the trash. I feel the same way about the rest of my curriculum things, but there's a lot I don't use that I either bought, or someone donated to me, or I got several copies of it from back when the Lending Library was going strong (I have lots of duplicate books).
And therefore my New Year's Resolution is to spend January and February deep cleaning and organizing ALL of my teaching things and selling on eBay what I do not need. This includes my Library, all of my file cabinets, and my Art Room, Handwork Room, and Science Room.
It's a big job but COVID is the perfect time to do it. And, since I fall in the category of people who buy everything online that they possibly can, only pick up their groceries at the curb, and have not seen their family or had a haircut since last February, I will be shipping everything USPS Priority Mail in Flat Rate Shipping boxes that do not need to be weighed.
I can pack it all up neatly and carefully, pay for the shipping and schedule a pickup online, and set it out on my doorstep. Easy!
So my plan is to NOT write any blog posts until this job is done and to use this post as a place to update what I have listed on eBay in case anyone is interested in any of the auctions. I will put things together into lots, bundles, and kits, so even if you get a book you'll get a few bonus things with it that may be useful for a lesson. I will keep this list
strictly up to date and if I know where something came from -- and it's still available -- I'll include the link to it. That way if you miss out on an auction you still know where to find it. And if I change my mind later and want to buy it again, I can! Enjoy!
My goal is to tidy & organize for 3 hours a day and list 3 auctions a day.
I used to be able to sell things on my Yahoo group but time marches on...
UPDATE:
As of March 1st, our homeschool co-op is resuming in-person school in our Outdoor Classroom. I have spent more time than I expected preparing for that transition and less time sorting through my rooms of teaching things... however, I will commit to posting new listings on eBay each Saturday. Please check back and see if there's something new that interests you! I'll keep this blog post always up to date.
Early Childhood
Auction #294031977707
SOLD

Making Peg Dolls
by Margaret Bloom
plus The Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy, needle felted turnip, large felting sponge (8" x 10" x 2"), 2 felting needles, 3 packs of Ashford wool purchased from A Child's Dream: Corriedale Sliver Rainbow Brights, Corriedale Sliver Pastels, English Leicester Rainbow Brights
First Grade
First Grade and Higher
Auction #294035486402
Auction #293977071429
Auction #293997545685
SOLD

Spelling Power Activity Task Cards
by Beverly Adams-Gordon
plus The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter, Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France by Mara Rockliff, Word Roots task cards by ETC Montessori, Greek & Latin Roots Bingo by Virtually Montessori, "Go Root" game, Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words by John Ayto, and 9 laminated sheets by Virtually Montessori: Roots, Prefixes, Example Words, Derivatives
Auction #294034374139
Second Grade
SOLD

Hildegard of Bingen: Scientist, Composer, Healer, and Saint
by Demi
plus Saint Bernadette and the Miracles
of Lourdes by Demi, The Wonderful Life of Russia's Saint Sergius of Radonezh
by Alvin Alexsi Currier, African Saints, African Stories: 40
Holy Men and Women by Camille Lewis Brown, Abba Moses: Notorious Robber, Desert
Father by Andrew Votipka, and Saints and Heroes by Donna Simmons
SOLD

Pattern Bugs
by Trudy Harris
plus TWO brand-new Maple Multiplication Rings from Etsy shop FromJennifer, x fact bookmarks, x board (5x5) with 27 marbles
Auction #294003018511
Third Grade
Auction #294035444871
Auction #294032955782
Auction #294033025012
Auction #294031823685
Auction #294031822089
Auction #294031778419

A New Coat for Anna
by Harrier Ziefert
plus wool batting dyed with blueberries, four colors of wool roving, a drop spindle, alpaca/silk fiber, and a bag of raw wool for washing
Fourth Grade
SOLD

By Pond and River
by Arabella Buckley
plus The Private Eye loupe & lanyard, Insects Punch-Out Stencils by John Emil Cymerman, Coloring Butterflies by Diana Vowles, The Book of Beetles: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems by Patrice Bouchard, and 12 Montessori Animal Story cards (differential grasshopper, bumblebee, green darner, ladybug beetle, cockroach, horse fly, red ant, monarch butterfly, sandhills hornet, pyralis firefly, mosquito, praying mantis)
Fifth Grade
Auction #294035022073
Sixth Grade
Auction #294033734583
Auction #294026414081
Seventh Grade
SOLD

Older Than the Stars
by Karen C. Fox
plus "Parts of the Atom" nomenclature, "First 20 Elements" three part cards, molecule kit, and assorted element cards for board games and classroom activities
Eighth Grade
Auction #294026136309
High School
UPDATE:
As of March 1st, our homeschool co-op is resuming in-person school in our Outdoor Classroom. I have spent more time than I expected preparing for that transition and less time sorting through my rooms of teaching things... however, I will commit to posting new listings on eBay each Saturday. Please check back and see if there's something new that interests you! I'll keep this blog post always up to date.
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