A Nerdy Teacher's Closet: Week 6 (10/8 - 10/12)

I went full on Harry Potter this week. I had a few Harry Potter shirts and they're witches and wizards and it's October, so I figured it'd be okay to maybe channel that. I mean, especially since this past weekend where my family went all Harry Potter crazy and we all determined our Official Pottermore Houses and wands and pratonuses. It was quite a surprising weekend for all of us. Yet, therein lies inspiration and that is where my weekend of t-shirt inspiration comes from.

Week 6: 10/8 - 10/12

Monday, October 8, 2018
Our I didn't know what to wear at the beginning of the week. I found it incredibly difficult to not want to defer to another comfortable shirt and start duplicating. Since I had spent the weekend sorting my October shirts, I started sorting through them and found this shirt as my comfiest option that I could also theme out for the week. This shirt is so absolutely comfy and loose, so it made me feel happy on a Monday that I knew was going to be right. Since I had just had a Harry Potter weekend, I figured this would be great. It came from a Loot Crate box.

Tuesday, October 9, 2018
I purchased this shirt when I went to Universal Orlando a few years ago. They largest size they had was a 2XL and, at the time, there was no way I was fitting into that. It was so tight, it squeezed my arms. I, though, bought it anyways, knowing what was ahead of me. Last year I finally wore it and I didn't look like a sausage. So I was very excited to put it on today. I also love Sirius Black. You can get your very own version without even going to Orlando! They do sell it in 3XL on the website.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The Forbidden Forest.... sooooo spooookyyyy. I mean look at this thing? Soooo spooky! I totally realized on this day that all of these Harry Potter shirts are full body shirts and it makes it really difficult to take a picture. Awesome! I purchased this through TeePublic.

Thursday, October 11, 2018
I'm not gonna lie... I've never worn this shirt. Not ever. I have no idea why. I just never have. It was one of the shirts that was folded and never really came up in my mind to wear. It's an Art-Nouveau style shirt of Luna Lovegood. If I remember correctly, it was part of empowered women series from several years ago via TeeFury. Now it is available through TeePublic.

Friday, October 12, 2018
I Same story as above. I bought the shirt. I never wore it. Art-Nouveau Hermoine Granger. Was at TeeFury, now at TeePublic. MeganLara, who has these shirts available through her shop on TeePublic, has several of these style shirts for all your geeky loves and even more for Harry Potter.

That was an interesting week of shirts. I had one that I didn't get to wear, but it's more Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings. I'm disappointed that I can't wear a selection of my shirts to school, because they depict guns. It's my Supernatural shirts. There's always a gun somewhere on the shirt. I'm thinking, though, next week might be zombie shirts and then our short week will be N.E.W. Game shirts and then the week of Halloween I have a few choice shirts, I think. November, though, I am breaking out the Science and Sci-Fi shirts, because November is Sci-Fi month!

A Nerdy Teacher's Closet: Week 5 (10/1 - 10/5)

It is all about Homecoming Week! Even though I'm in middle school, our Student Council wants to celebrate our feeder high school. Just like in high school, it is a week of themed dress-up. What made this week even more interesting was that my daughter's elementary school (we're not in the same district) also was doing a Homecoming Week! We have a small community, so the Homecoming game is one of the biggest events! There's a parade and everything. My district is quite a bit bigger and there's two large high schools. So this is what our first week of October was like. I'm hoping the rest can really channel from Halloween flavor.

Week 5: 10/1 - 10/5

Monday, October 1, 2018
Our first day was 'Merica Day. Um... so... I am already opposed to 'Merica... It's A-merica. America. Next time please just call it Red/White/Blue day. Anyways. I didn't feel like going traditional, so I pulled out my shirt from the 2016 election. If only. From TeePublic.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018
I really pushed myself with this particular theme day. I have very few sports shirts. It was sports apparel/jersey day. I dug out my X-Men jersey (a nod to 1963 and the originals) from LootCrate and tossed on my Timber Rattlers hat to represent some sort of sport. Plus it's kind of a Brewers throwback jersey and you know they're rockin' things at the moment. The reason this was a stretch for me wasn't that it was sports, but that it was yellow and I didn't have a shirt over the shirt. I had to double-up the shirt with a long sleeved navy shirt and I felt bulky. I mean... everyone knows I'm not a skinny flower, but my anxiety was high wearing this. I did it though. Go me! Come to think of it... maybe I felt a little bit like a mutant that day. Ha! This is from the Marvel Geat + Goods: Danger Room (April 2018) crate. You can find the shirt on ebay and other places if you google for it.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018
This particular day was Disney day. I failed to remember to wear my Star Wars Disney ears, because they're in my daughter's closet. Poor planning on my part, even though I did wear my WALL-E and Groot shirt. It's all good. I got to be unique. I don't remember where I got it, but it's currently available through TeePublic and Naolito. 

Thursday, October 4, 2018
I had a sick day today. My school had tie dye and my daughter's school had Red, White, and Blue day. She came downstairs saying she was going to wear her tie dye shirt, because it had red, white, and blue on it, even though it also had green. Since I wasn't dressing up, I took a picture of her to represent both of our theme days. Too adorable for words. This particular shirt was homemade at Girl Scout Camp.

Friday, October 5, 2018
I can't say I was feeling 100% better for this last day of the week, but I know I needed to tough it out and go in. Luck for me I was feeling great by the end of the day. Probably because my students are so adorably amazing! Our day was West Colors. West has this blue as their color (and white). Since we've been working hard on making sure our students are using proper writing conventions, which include capitalization and punctuation (we aren't in the business of writing texts up in here), I wore this shirt to remind them. Fridays are always Vocab Quiz day and they have to write a sentence that demonstrates their understanding of the word, so we started out with some fun to remember the expectations. This shirt is much loved by many. I, shockingly, bought it years ago when I first started teaching. Since I've been able to organize all my shirts, I finally had the opportunity to wear it and it fit me. That particular piece was thrilling. I bought it at Woot! Shirt. 

This weekend I'm going to try to get the rest of my October organized so that I don't miss out on cool stuff. I promise no Pumpkin Spice.

Why I'm Doing A Nerdy Teacher's Closet

Why in the world would someone with anxiety subject themselves to taking a picture everyday, especially when they also have body image issues?

I've asked myself that frequently. This was especially a question I asked when I embarked on a 30-Days-Until-Star-Wars clothing challenge. I wore a different piece of Star Wars clothing everyday until Star Wars Episode VIII came out. Shockingly, I was able to watch my body change during that month, but I also started feeling good about certain aspects of the way that I looked. I took control of how I looked, but, sadly, it still doesn't handle the bigger issue of other people who have cameras and I find myself in those pictures.

My decision to do this, though, started over the summer when I was finally able to sort through and organize my entire t-shirt collection. I have a crazy amount of t-shirts that I've collected during my lifetime and now I could finally see them all! I had an idea to challenge myself to wear as many different shirts as possible throughout the school year. I wasn't going to photograph or blog anything, but I thought it would just be a fun challenge for myself.

Right before school started, though, I learned that one of my coworkers was diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. With as much as Cancer has permeated my life and those I am close to, it hit me hard. She's the same age as me, super healthy, with two young girls... It's one of those ones that just knocks the wind out of you. She's on my sixth grade teacher team. We've "lived" across the hall from each other for seven years. It was just too real.

And that's where this blog series began. I'd sit in team meetings day after day, week after week, month after month listening to this idea about doing a teacher fashion blog. I remember at one point the group had joked about different teachers in our 6th grade team taking something focus on. Someone would focus on Target... I could do t-shirts (because HELLO!). I remember her talking about how to promote the blog and how to get it out there and all the work that goes into making it a success.

Now, I've been writing in the blogosphere for quite some time. It's a highly competitive world out there. I'm not an incredibly successful blogger, because I struggle with consistency due to my really fickle lifestyle. I figured, though, that this could be my opportunity to at least, in my own way, be some sort of personal tribute to something she'd always talked about. Yeah... I'm not a fashionista. Have you seen the pictures? I do have my own brand of fashion, sort of, and that's where I started this blog. She's on my mind everyday and everyday I take my picture, even on those days that I just don't want to make the effort to look anything other than the blah I feel inside, because I want to complete this challenge for her. It's like running a marathon... I can do this! I will do this!

Will there be other benefits to this endeavor? Sure! I'll chronicle my shirts and, hopefully, see more body changes, but it's my own weird way of doing whatever people do when they hear that level of news.

A team of us are walking for the cause and my coworker has shirts ready. Did I mention she loves designing shirts for our 6th grade team? Sponsor us if you can and thanks.

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