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Stick with love {hand lettering freebie}

Cheryl txcraftyginger@gmail.com

Tags coffee, creating, get creative, hand lettering, lettering, love, mindfulness, pandemic, passion, teachers, Texas, week

Stick with love {hand lettering freebie}
I am mindfully practicing resetting {my heart, my outlook, my patience, my perseverance - all things that cause a war of love vs. hate in my spirit}.

I still ❤️ a good sticker

Cheryl txcraftyginger@gmail.com

Tags crafty, create, creating, diy, Facebook, handmade, life, love, make art, makers, pandemic, passion, passion projects, side hustle, small business, Texas

I still ❤️ a good sticker
...it seems my love for a good sticker is still engrained in my soul.

Side Hustlin' is a Passion

Cheryl txcraftyginger@gmail.com

Tags art, artists, crafts, creating, makers, passion, passion projects, side hustle, teachers

Side Hustlin' is a Passion

As you may or may not know (depending on if we have ever met and had this conversation), I am a full-time, high school art teacher. I have been teaching for 20.5 years now (I started when I was 10! Ha!!) And, according to the state of Texas and TRS, I am eligible for retirement in 2026! There have been times throughout my career, when I was single, where I worked a second part-time job. It was never a necessity but I had been known to have "champagne taste on a beer budget"! So, in 2015, after an intense recovery...