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Teacher’s Pet Projects

A legion of blog and Instagram followers keeps up with Kelly-Anne Rush’s DIY endeavors.

Photographs courtesy of Kelly-Anne Rush

Kelly-Anne Rush has grit. Talk to her long enough about any of her favorite subjects — frugality, Yankee ingenuity, DIY undertakings, house flipping, side hustles, teaching personal finance to teens — and she will likely use the word more than once. At Windham High School, where she teaches social studies, she’s Ms. Rush. On the internet, where she has more than 10,000 Instagram followers and a well-trafficked blog, she’s Crafty Teacher Lady, champion of self-reliance and living well on a teacher’s salary. How does she juggle the demands of the classroom and an emergent lifestyle brand? Grit, says Rush: “I work my butt off. That’s it.”

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