Happy Monday friends! I hope that you had a wonderful weekend! It was a busy, fun and FULL weekend with some amazing adventures (including traveling to New Jersey for a TPT Live event!). I can't wait to share more soon but y'all... it was AMAZING. I hope that each of you had an amazing weekend as well!
Today I am excited to share the top 5 items that y'all have loved the most from the Caravan Sonnet Shoppe for the month of March! March was a bit slower in the shop and that has been typical for my shop for the last couple of years.
Thank you for ALL the sweet reviews, the love, and the support of this space and shop!! I am SO excited to share SO many new things coming in the weeks ahead!!!
I hope that if you are interested in shop statistics, how it looks to really grow a TPT shop, or just any entrepreneurial business that this information is incredibly helpful and encouraging for you! Over the last 12 years of building Caravan Sonnet blog and brand, December Caravan Etsy Shop, and this TPT store the one thing I can definitely say is that things take time. Keep pushing ahead and keep planting the seeds... it is worth it!
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A fun thing that happened this month was a change in the shop logo! I loved the change!
Total Number of Sales in March 2025: 34
Number of Countries: 2 -United States and Canada
Number of States: 18 States (with the most sales from Texas)
New Community/Followers on TPT: 17 (!!) (Currently: 67) Thank you!!
New Reviews: 0
New Community/Followers on the Caravan Sonnet Shoppe IG Page: 80 (!!)(Currently 167)-Thank you!!
*March hit a milestone month of having more than 100 followers and we celebrated here*
Most Watched Reel for March 2025: HERE (isn't the song fun??)
If you want to follow along it is incredibly easy- simply click HERE and click the FOLLOW star! That is it! I look forward to connecting more with you there!
I love looking at this type of data and information and planning on how to best serve YOU! It is truly an honor to prove creative, colorful, and most of all educational resources that are ready to use! Thank you again for all of your support! Here are the top 5 best sellers of March 2025!
*****5 STAR RATED*****
Price: $2.00
This resource contains 19 Powerpoint Slides with colorful, animated, engaging, and educational sections all about Taxes!
This Powerpoint specifically explains Basic Definition and Understanding of Taxes, discusses taxes and Filing, explains the difference between Taxable and Non-Taxable Income noted throughout different slides, discusses how wages and tip income taxes are handled, introduces the different requirements and tests for dependents, the five different filing status' and finally has three dedicated slides to state income taxes. This is truly a ALL in one tax resource!
This Powerpoint Presentation contains practical and helpful information to help students understand the basic principals of federal and state taxes which is a national requirement for a financial literacy/personal finance class and also required by most state standards. It will also help you in your discussion of this topic!
Powerpoint contains the following information:
* Basic Definition and Understanding of Taxes
* Taxes and Filing
* Taxable and Non-Taxable Income
* Wages and Tip Income Taxes
* Interest Income
* Dependents
* Filing Status
* State Income Tax
and MORE!
*****5 STAR RATED*****
Price: $2.00
CONSISTENT WEEKLY BEST SELLER in 2023 and 2024
One of the most WELL loved resources in the shop!!
*TOP 5 BEST SELLER IN THE SHOP**
Blog Posts about this resource: 5 Star Review
This resource Contains 16 Powerpoint Slides with colorful, animated, engaging, and educational sections all about renting/leasing an apartment and includes guided/scaffolded notes! This Powerpoint Presentation contains practical and helpful information to help students make steps to help them choose an apartment that is right for them and what things to consider when looking for an apartment, leasing an apartment, walk throughs, and MORE! It also gives students tips ways to save money in this process. It will also help you in your discussion of this topic!
This resource will be particularly helpful for all different students who may be coming from a variety of income backgrounds!
This powerpoint is specifically helpful if you are wanting to dive deeper into this financial aspect of this topic, need a substitute filler around this time period or a way to sensitively introduce the concept of living alone/apartment living for a later unit. However you are using this- this will be a way to help students (and their families!) think about this subject in new ways and help this come alive for your students. This resource will help bring creative engagement to your lectures!
This resource contains the following information:
* Finding and Researching Apartments
* Budgeting for an Apartment
* Financial Aspects of Apartment Living
* 22 Hidden Apartment Costs
* Location Considerations
* Apartment Amenities
* Walk Throughs
*Specific Walk Through Considerations
*Negotiating Rent
*Final Lease Signing
Blog Posts about this resource: Blog Post
Powerpoint Contains 11 Powerpoint Slides with colorful, animated, engaging, and educational sections on Identity Theft.
This powerpoint is specifically helpful if you are wanting dive deeper into the unit of Identity Theft/Scams which has always been extremely popular with my students in my classes! This can also be helpful if you need a substitute filler around this unit! However you are using this- this will be a way to help students (and their families!) think about this subject in new ways and help this come alive for your students.This resource will help bring creative engagement to your lectures!
*Powerpoint can be easily converted into Google Slides for your convenience
**Powerpoint can be edited to fit the needs of your classroom!
Powerpoint contains the following information:
* Definition of Identity Theft
* Major Identity Theft Rings
* Major Identity Theft Information
* Identity Theft Tactics
* How to Protect Against Identity Theft
* How to Respond to Identity Theft
Price: $1.00
Blog Posts about this resource: Road Trip Budget Blog Post
This zip file Contains 2 PDF pages (Road Trip Budget Worksheet for student copy/1 page for teacher suggestions on how to creatively use this worksheet in a variety of ways) to help students learn how to create a travel budget for road trips. This will work perfectly with the Semester Finance Bundle or any of the Personal Finance Resource sections!
This activity/assignment is specifically helpful if you are wanting dive deeper into this financial aspect of travel budgets with relation to road trips(with travel budgets often a state requirement for many states in the US), need a substitute filler around this subject or a way to sensitively introduce the concept of common Spring Break trips for road trips/ travel on a variety of different income levels. However you are using this- this will be a way to help students (and their families!) think about this subject in new ways and help this come alive for your students. This resource will help bring creative engagement to your lectures!
Just looking for a basic travel budget worksheet? Check out the Travel Budget Worksheet Resource in my store HERE!
This resources includes:
- PDF- Road Trip Budget Vacation Worksheet
- PDF Assignment Suggestion Sheet listing 5 unique and creative ways to use this Road Trip budget vacation worksheet in your classroom
-There is NO key to this as you can edit the parameters to fit the needs of your specific classroom assignment
*over 198+ Pages Included*
Price: $18.00
CONSISTENT WEEKLY BEST SELLER in 2023 and 2024
One of the most WELL loved resources in the shop!!
(I actually wrote an entire blog post on this bundle which you can find HERE!)
This bundle includes ALL of the powerpoint presentations and resources with colorful, animated, engaging, and educational sections from the College Life Unit in Personal Finance! With over 195 powerpoint presentation pages/slides/PDFs/Word Document Assignment/Classroom Activities and Keys! (198 to be exact!!) you will be ready to have a foundation to teach this unit in your personal finance class!
This bundle is the only one of its kind on teachers pay teachers and is a FANASTIC way to combine state standard requirements in your financial literacy class with engaging, practical and helpful information for students. This is a resource for personal finance teachers at the high school or college level. I personally have found that it works fantastic with juniors and seniors in high school!
When I first started teaching personal finance I wasn't even sure where to begin and lots of the materials that were available that could be found (which was extremely limited) seemed out of date and very boring. Creating these resources for my students helped bring this material alive in new ways and these powerpoints will help be a foundation for your unit also!
This bundle includes the following 19 resources including:
- Finding/Renting an Apartment Powerpoint (#2 Best Seller in the Shoppe!)
- Financial Freedom for College Students Powerpoint
- The Value of a College Degree Powerpoint
- The Cost of a College Education Powerpoint
- Personal Finance College Budget Assignment/Activity
- Coffee and Your Budget Powerpoint (National Coffee Day)
- 8 Scams Targeting College Students Powerpoint
- 18 Ways to Make College Cheaper Powerpoint
- 13 Ways to Save Money on College Textbooks Powerpoint
- Student Loan Debt Activity
- All about the FASFA Powerpoint (Consistent Best Seller in the Shoppe!)
- Four Types of Insurance Everyone Needs Powerpoint
- 10 Christmas Presents under $20 for College Students Powerpoint
- Creating a Travel Budget Powerpoint
- Cruise Budget Assignment
- Travel Budget Assignment and Suggestions
- Road Trip Budget Assignment
- Ski/Snowboard Trip Budget Assignment
- Spring Break Trip Budget Assignment
- This bundle includes 19 products including:
- PowerPoint Presentations
- Word Document Classroom Activity/Assignment (includes Political Cartoons)
- Travel Budget Worksheets (including Cruising Budget!)
- PDF Document Assignments
- Answer Keys to Assignments
Honorable Mentions of Top Sales in March...
Price: $2.00
(I actually wrote an entire blog post on this one product which you can find HERE!)
This resource Contains 10 Powerpoint Slides with colorful, animated, engaging, and educational sections on the Comparison of Salary and Hourly Pay! This Powerpoint Presentation contains practical and helpful information to help students make steps to help them choose career paths that are right for them. It also helps students see the key differences between both types of pay and how to evaluate which is right for them. It will also help you in your discussion of this topic!
This resource will be particularly helpful for all different students who may be coming from a variety of income backgrounds!
This powerpoint is specifically helpful if you are wanting to dive deeper into this financial aspect of this topic, need a substitute filler around this time period or a way to sensitively introduce the concept of comparing salaried vs hourly rates for a later unit. However you are using this- this will be a way to help students (and their families!) think about this subject in new ways and help this come alive for your students.This resource will help bring creative engagement to your lectures!
This resources includes the following topics:
- Definitions of Hourly Pay and Salaried Pay
- Differences between Hourly Pay and Salaried Pay
- Salary Pros and Cons
- Hourly Pay Pros and Cons
- 5 tips for Determining if a Salaried Position is Right for You
This resources includes:
PowerPoint and Guided Notes
Guided Notes come with three options:
(1) Fill in the Blank Notes (with answer key)
(2) One Slide a Page with Note Space Below
(3) Multiple Slides a Page with Mini Note Sections to the Right
Purchase this resource HERE!
So there are the 5 top sellers from March 2025! I am so excited to see in April what the top sellers will be as I am getting ready to release so many different fun end of year Resources to the shop!
I also want to take a moment to say thank you for every single purchase that has been made in the shop. I work incredibly hard with so much heart behind the scenes to make these products and I want to share the products that others are finding helpful in case you or a teacher/homeschool mama friend could find them useful also. So thank you again for your support of my shoppe! If you have purchased something from the shop- would you take a moment to leave a review? Reviews for shops are SO important and I SO appreciate your help and time!
Thank you again for all of your support, for following along in the shop, for your kind reviews, and for purchasing these products!
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Happy Friday friends!! I hope that you have had a lovely and wonderful week! I am so grateful to spend time with each of you in this sweet space every single day. This week has flown by with so many different things. Is it just me or do Spring weeks seem to just fly?
One important thing I wanted to note was that I am so excited to start sharing all of the firsts that I am doing this year (read the story HERE) now on IG with reels also (click HERE)! If we aren't already connected over on please stop over and say hello! I would love to connect with you in that space! Click HERE!
I am heading out on an exciting adventure this weekend so this Friday Favorites is just going to be simple and short! You can follow along on Instagram! Happy Friday friends!
Here are the posts from this past week:
The Firsts Reels....
Introduction and the Story Behind the Year of Firsts (Instagram Reel: Click HERE)
Day 1: Memorize Scripture Verse for the 2025 Year (Instagram Reel: Click HERE)
Day 2: Read a Local Newspaper in its Entirety (Instagram Reel: Click HERE)
Day 3: Learn a Skill for Something to Fix in the House on My Own (Instagram Reel: Click HERE)
Upcoming Travel Collaboration- French River Cruise...
From the Etsy Store...
Thursday Health Thoughts...
From the Caravan Sonnet Shoppe...
I hope that you have a wonderful Friday friends! Thank you for making this such an incredible space to come to and connect with every single day. I am so blessed!!
Happy Thursday friends! I am so excited to share with y'all more about the disney junk journal collection that is available in the travel section in the shop!
Whether it is your first trip or your 100th this will be a legacy heirloom!
This beautiful Disney junk journal is the perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself to write down precious moments and save the priceless scraps of time from each day of an visit to the happiest place on earth!
This beautiful Disney junk journal is the perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself to write down precious moments and save the priceless scraps of time from each day of an visit to the happiest place on earth!
Inspired by the precious memories of new beginnings, little joys, happiness and time with loved ones these precious these magical junk journals / fashion bag charms are the perfect gift for anyone or yourself!
Wouldn't this just be so adorable to attach to your bag you are carrying around Disney?
Y'all know I love me some Minnie Mouse!
These journals and junk journals are the perfect way to keep track and treasure the magic ordinary of each day!
No matter which journal or junk journal you select you can easily add in pictures and quick notes so that you can remember the special days of magic forever.
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Above are just a few pictures from the MANY Disney Junk Journal Collection precious journals that are available, and I hope y'all love it!
THANK YOU so much for your support of our mother-daughter run shop! You are awesome!
You can find this entire collection of junk journals HERE and so many other journals in the shop HERE!
Happy Thursday friends!
To be truthful I had heard of Apple Cider Vinegar before but had never really known anything about it or the health benefits of it until about a 13 years ago when I started to fight for my health. One of my first doctors in the journey recommended it to me and I was amazed to discover a wide range of possible uses and health benefits that Apple Cider Vinegar provides. Starting in 2012 I introduced this simple yet powerful health aide into my life and have never looked back. I hope today inspires you to use this as well!
Looking for tips on how to incorporate Apple Cider Vinegar into your life? Check out the post that I wrote, 17 Quick and Easy Ways to Include Apple Cider Vinegar into Your Life (click HERE) for ideas!
I personally would recommend Braggs Organic Apple Cider Vinegar (find HERE) and all of the things that are listed here today are based on their specific brand. As a side note you can locate this in this in the condiment and the health aisles of your grocery store because it is used in a variety of different ways.
So what are the health benefits of organic Apple Cider Vinegar? Check these out:.
1. Helps with digestion.
2. Helps wash toxins away from the body.
3. Help to kill or slow the growth of cancer cells in the body.
4. Some studies have suggested that vinegar can help with obesity because it helps people feel fuller quicker.
5. Known to help with diabetes. For diabetics there has been a lot of research done that shows that apple cider vinegar can help lower glucose levels
6. There have been cases that have stated that Apple Cider Vinegar can help kill lice.
7. Helps to strengthen the immune system and some articles have claimed that it will help heal a cold.
8. Helps to alleviate bad breath.
9. Helps to balance the PH levels.
10. This might sound humorous but instead of being scared to death or trying to hold your breath Readers Digest suggested using apple cider vinegar to cure hiccups.
11. Some reports have claimed that it can help with exercise exhaustion.
12. Helps with nighttime leg cramps.
13. Helps to whiten your teeth.
14. Helps to reduce acne.
15. Helps to erase cellulite. You can find the mixture recipe here.
Do you use Apple Cider Vinegar daily? In what ways have you found it helpful?
THIS is the apple cider vinegar that I recommend and personally use! You can find it on Amazon by clicking HERE! If you have been around the blog for a while you may remember me recommending the same apple cider vinegar before as this is the same product I use in my daily detox baths!
Looking for ways to include Apple Cider Vinegar into your life? Check out this post below:
17 Quick and Easy Ways to Include Apple Cider Vinegar into Your Life
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