Spooky Clip Art and Free Candy!

Just in time, the Halloween Pilly Pack is complete and available for download!  As usual, this new pack will be 50% off for a limited time.  The sale goes through Halloween, so click here to get the discount before it's gone!

To celebrate my favorite holiday, I've also decided to give out candy!  Download your deliciously free Pilly Present here, but don't eat it all at once!


The Halloween Pilly Pack contains 26 spooky images:

• Frankenstein's monster
• a cheerful ghost
• a musing mummy
• a wistful witch
• a batty bat (I've had the song from Sesame Street stuck in my head ever since I drew that one!)
• a clever kitty (2 versions, one with a glittery hat!)
• a jolly Jack-O-Lantern
• colorful candies (10 Halloween-y colors!)
• and transparent line art for each image (8 total!)

The Candy FREEBIE contains 7 tasty pieces:

• 6 colorful candies (cream, blueberry, chocolate, lemon, cherry, and bubblegum!)
• 1 transparent line art image

Enjoy your clip art and have a happy Halloween!

Yay Fonts!

Coming soon eventually: Fonts!

I am beyond excited to learn how to create fonts.  I finally earned enough from my clip art to justify purchasing font creation software, which is something I've wanted to do for several months.  Today I created the first rough draft of a font from my handwriting.  So far it only has the alphabet and a few punctuation marks, but it turned out much better than I thought it would!  I was sure it would clearly look like a first attempt.  I think I've discovered a new hobby!  Now I just need to study up on how to tweak a few things, and I'll be able to start working on fonts to put in my shop.  The most exciting part: now I can actually type on my product thumbnails, rather than placing images of each handwritten letter by hand!  (Yes, using an installed font would have been much less tedious, but it was so fun to see my handwriting on the screen!)

In the meantime, I'm still drawing away for my Halloween clip art pack.  Here's a happy Jack-o-Lantern to brighten your day!

This is Halloween!

I absolutely love Halloween!  I have been swamped with homework and studying for exams, but I just couldn't let this month go by without creating an appropriately themed clipart pack!  As someone with a late October birthday, I always felt like the nearby holiday was an extension of my own celebration.  Nearly every single birthday party I had as a kid was costumed and full of witches, spiders, and creepy things.  Though I'm too old to go trick-or-treating, and don't yet have kids of my own to take around (in exchange for a modest candy-fee), I do enjoy answering the door and greeting all the cute little monsters begging for sweets.  

I still remember my 3rd or 4th Halloween, being carried around asking for candy, dressed as a parrot with green dye in my hair.  I have never been the typical trick-or-treat-then-binge-till-I'm-sick kind of a person.  Even as a kid I would eat a few candies at a time, and frequently have to empty a few pieces out of my bag every year from the previous haul.  I love candy, and I like it to last!

Not only do I love Halloween candy, but I just can't get enough of the cute decorations!  (I hate the creepy stuff.)  If I could, I would decorate with adorable pumpkins and grinning monsters all year long.  And, speaking of pumpkins, have you ever made a pie from a fresh one?!  There are no words...

There is so much to enjoy about this fun holiday, and so many great ideas and opportunities for creativity!  I can't wait until I finish school and someday have kids of my own to dress up as little mummies and Frankenstein's monsters.  I hope I'm able to help them love the holiday as much as I do!

Shoot for the Stars Pilly Pack!

I've gotten quite busy with school, so my clip art creating has slowed down a bit.  I snatched up every spare moment I could and the star-themed set is finally finished and uploaded!  Check it out and Shoot for the Stars!  Now available in my TpT shop.

Celebrate your students with this 33 piece star-themed clip art pack! Show them they're special by framing their cute faces among the stars!


This out-of-this-world pack includes:

• star-shaped picture frame, with and without a transparent glow
• 5 star-themed phrases to pair with the frames:
• "Super Star!"
• "Math Star!"
• "Spelling Star!"
• "Science Star!"
• "Reading Star!"
• 5 large images designed for banners or poster/bulletin board titles:
• "Super Stars!"
• "Math Stars!"
• "Spelling Stars!"
• "Science Stars!"
• "Reading Stars!"
• shooting star
• smiling star
• smiling rocket ship
• "Shoot for the Stars!" image
• transparent line art for each image (15 total!)
• Bonus! Star field digital paper in 2 sizes (8.5x11 and 12x12)

Shoot for the stars!

The next pack is going to be stellar!  Full of stars, a rocket, and fun star-related phrases to inspire and praise the super stars in your class.  My favorite images in the pack, so far, are the cute star picture frames.  Kids will love seeing their faces shining in the stars with titles like "Math Star!" "Reading Star!" and "Super Star!" congratulating them on a job well done.

I've always been fascinated by stars and space.  As an adult I can't get enough of science and nature documentaries, and the majority of the ones I truly love are about space and animals.  As a kid I enjoyed looking up at the stars and identifying the handful of constellations I knew.  My favorite has always been Orion.  Every time I left home, seeing that same group of stars helped keep the homesickness at bay.  The sky was the same, no matter where I went.  On long drives I was fascinated by how the stars seemed to follow us.  I would lean as far as I could against the window and stare at them as we zipped down the highway.  I wished on them, too.  I had such a happy childhood, and I wanted every kid to be as happy as I was!

Bookworms are in the Shop!

Computer sluggishness and my inner perfectionist couldn't stop me from getting the bookworms finished and in the shop today.  This new image pack is 50% off through Saturday, August 23!  With the big sitewide sale today you can get it for even less!  Click here to check it out!

These cute little bookworms come in 7 different colors. Add some color and smiles to your presentations with this 36 piece set. I've been an avid "bookworm" for as long as I can remember. I hope these images help ignite the inner bookworms in your students, too!

Contents:
-reading bookworm boy in 7 colors
-reading bookworm girl in 7 colors
-smiling bookworm boy in 7 colors
-smiling bookworm girl in 7 colors
-2 bonus reading students! (1 male and 1 female)
-transparent line art for each image (6 total!)

I'm a Bookworm, and I'm Proud!

Bookworms are coming, just in time for the big Back to School Boost sale tomorrow!  The price will be extra low, so tomorrow will be the time to buy!

This set will have several colors of these cute worms, stacks of books, and students excitedly reading.  Make lessons about reading colorful and fun!

I have always been an avid reader.  As a child I kept a huge stack of my favorites on a shelf over my bed, and I would stay up hours longer than I should have cycling through each one.  My favorite series growing up was J. K. Applegate's Animorphs.  Every month I used my allowance to get the latest book.  I wished with every beat of my little heart that I could gain the ability to morph into animals and join Jake, Cassie, Rachel, Marco, and Tobias in their fight against the evil Yerks.  The most memorable books always involved animals.  I absolutely loved disappearing into those worlds where anything was possible and talking animals could be my dear friends.

To this day science fiction and fantasy have a special place in my heart.  Nothing beats transporting myself into a fantastic world full of strange creatures and courageous heroes.  I no longer dream of the ability to morph into a guinea pig, but I do think it would be quite enjoyable to live as a hobbit in the Shire.  (Post Return of the King, of course!)

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