I found some pretty stuff today that made me smile and thought I’d share.

Print a Day is sharing some charming stationery.  She’s got such an eye for design.  It should be criminal to be so talented.

I love Boxy Papercraft Toys, partly because they are quick to assemble and require little in the way of materials and partly because they are so beautifully and energetically illustrated that I can’t help but smile when I see them.  I’m seriously considering building all of them and pinning them to the wall all art-installation style.

Paper Crave bestows on us these great love stamp inspired printables.  There are flat cards, address labels, patterned paper, and some cute gift tags.  The gift tags would make perfect stickers.

Speaking of stickers (smooth transition, eh?) here’s a great tutorial for making your own stickers using flavored gelatin.  Sounds pretty kid friendly to me. 

Thank you Go Make Something for all the awesome free printable collage sheets.  You ROCK!

I might have mentioned these before, but Creature Comforts, is providing a wonderful free download of uber cute mini note sheets, library cards, and library card pocket templates.  I’m sure you can find more than one way to use those little pockets.

Stationery Style is a commercial site, but they have some nice looking card downloads.

Lotta Bruhn, fab graphic designer and altruistic sticker maker, has some of the cutest little space and animal themed sticker downloads I’ve ever seen.  I’m sure these little guys can become other forms of busy papery goodness as well.

Here is the stationery set that features the art print I put up earlier.  This set includes the following designs:

2 Note Papers
2 Note Cards
2 Envelopes
9 Gift Tags
3 Note Pad Sheets (To-Do list style)

As for the look and style… It’s kind of a swirly, curly, lyrical tree doodle in a cranberry red.  When you download the zip file you’ll find that the tree was titled “Tree of Contemplation.”  Sounds all deep right? That was the result of me not being able to figure out what to title the files since I have other tree related files on my computer.  Get it?  HA!  I’m hilarious.

Anyways, if you enjoy it—tell me about it. 

I love it when people send me things to post (even if I take FOREVER to post them!)  Candace sent me her versions of Who Monkey and When Monkey (the two remaining Monkey books that I swear I’ll get around to making one day) for me to share here.  THANK YOU CANDACE!!!  You are AWESOME!  She even used my cute little Monkey.  I love that Monkey and it’s great to see him travel all over the internets having various fun and adventures. 

These are in .pptx format.  That’s PowerPoint for the new Microsoft Office Suite (2007.)  I don’t like to mess with other people’s creations so I won’t be changing the file format.

I’ll still be making my own versions of these books, with a different focus on language than Candace used so you’ll have even more resources use. 

Who Monkey By CANDACE

When Monkey By CANDACE

Can you believe the nerve of some people?  They go a whole MONTH without posting a blog entry and then expect every one to be all “ooohhh” and “ahhhh” the next time they post.  Well, if I was you dear reader, I wouldn’t stand for it! 

You’ve probably figured out that I’m talking about myself, right?  I’m sorry!  Life got the best of me again.  I have LOTS of stuff I need to post and I’m going to try to get it up this week.  Don’t give up on my yet folks!

But, I do have a present.  This art print is going to be the basis for some nice new stationery.  I hope you like it!

I’m not sure why, but the internet theme of the day seems to be Memorial Day (understandable) and Zombies.  Who am I to disagree.

Enjoy these printable Zombie Posters.

Memorial Day Activities, Lesson Plans, and Worksheets to help your child understand Memorial Day.

Have a great Memorial Day!

This is wicked cool.  A reader, Carol, has done something truly wonderful by creating Board Maker files to accompany Where is Monkey?. 

If you have BoardMaker version six (or compatible) you can download them here.  I don’t have BoardMaker myself, so I can’t offer support on the files.

I want to thank Carol for this.  It really makes my day when someone gets use out of one of my downloads.  Seeing a video of it is even better.

My email ate a message from Dwight.  Dwight if you are out there in the cyber ether, could you please send it again?

And if any one else is having issues with the size of the seed packet download don’t worry I’m going to see if I can shrink it down.

On another note, I’ve been getting messages from wonderful individuals who want to share printables they’ve made with readers of this site.  I can’t tell you how awesome I think that is!!!!!

If you EVER want to send something you made my way, just contact me.  I love to hear from people who visit FPF!

My dad always said that I grew great winter gardens.  “Winter gardens” of course, being ideas that are wonderfully conceived but are not, or can not be, acted upon. He was right of course-- I spend an inordinately large amount of my time dreaming and planning but quickly loose interest once its time to actually get the project under way.

I was *thinking* of growing a garden this year.  I’ve been *thinking* about doing it all winter long.  Of course, just as the weather starts to turn hospitable, I’ve lost all interest. 

That’s ok, though.

There are lots of seed packet printables online.   A person could spend all day clicking through pages.  So, here’s my round up of the ones I liked best. 

I’m going to start with this blank template for creating your own seed packets.  If you have a closet full of scrapbooking supplies (like me) this is a good template for putting those papers to task.

These photo seed packets from Kodak would make a great wedding or baby shower favor. They have a template for mother’s day too, which is coming up soon from what I hear.

Now, I want you to visit two links that may or may not be active at the time of your visit.  I know, everyone hates dead links, but if the links are active they are well worth the visit.  The printable seed packets from Siggy Rose and D Dusterr are very nice and worth a look, but their websites seem in a state of flux, so there’s no guarantee.

Over at Dave’s Garden there’s a strange mix of user submitted seed packets that is worth poking through.  Some are country chic, some are whimsical, some included accurate information for particular types of plants.

There are three great seed packet posts on the Modish blog, but they are best read in order – One Two Three.  I love Modish for great inspiration and stunning designs.

I don’t know what kind of wicked cool stuff is lurking over at the Wild Life Gardeners forum because my membership hasn’t been approved yet, but it must be awesome if it’s so well guarded.

Here’s some seed packets I made up to share.

8 printable seed packets in PDF format in a zip file.

I used the Modish template to create these and various digi-scrap kits (attributed on the PDFs.)  Enjoy.

Here’s some stationary, an envelope, and envelope liners. I whipped these up to make use of these beautiful bird doodles from Jessica Bell. Right click and save then print them from your graphics program. Yeah, I know they aren't stellar quality, but I just wanted something neat to write a letter on.

I was researching resources for subtest 4 of the Bracken Concepts Scale and I couldn’t find a printable that teaches children about sizes. Well, that’s not entirely true. I could find a lot of stuff for big, little, short, and tall--but the concept test asks about shallow and deep and I couldn’t find anything that addressed that. There weren’t many things that mentioned wide and thin either. So, I made something. It’s just a little book, nothing too fancy. It's a powerpoint so if you need a PDF let me know. You should be able to print it pretty easy, but if you have issues please let me know and I’ll work something out. It takes a little bit to load on Google, so far warning. I printed it with 2 slides per page, cut apart the sides leaving the left hand margin in place and stapled it together. Sorry about the pitiful webcam photo, I’m feeling too lazy for the real camera today.

Teach children about sizes.