FINAL Free Font Friday

It's Friday, but it's the LAST Free Font Friday linky party hosted by The Teaching Tribune.  I have LOVED this linky party, because I am obsessed with fonts and the freer the better!!!  I'm sad that this linky is ending, but I am very glad that I got to be a part of it and snag so very many AWESOME free fonts!!

Today they are sharing a great font created by Mel from Graphics at the Pond.  It's a perfect style of font for my kindergarten classroom, when I'm typing letters or reminders to go home.

There are LOTS of other great free fonts from designers who have linked up for this last Free Font Friday linky party.  Make sure you hop on over and check out their creations!!

Since I have never created a font, I don't have any freebies to share with you.  HOWEVER, I simply LOVE finding great new fonts to add to my Font Book (obsessed is a good word to use here), and finding FREE fonts is oh so awesome!!  So in honor of Free Font Friday ending at Week 6, I searched TPT to find SIX FREE font downloads to share with you.  Some of the downloads are packs with more than one font...SCORE!!  If you are like me and OBSESSED with fonts, enjoy!!  :-)

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Have I ever mentioned that I adore the clip art and graphics created by the oh-so-talented Krista Wallden?  Yeah, I have. ;-)  Not only does she create simply wonderful graphics, she also dabbles in fonts.  With her new transition out of the classroom to focus more on her graphic designs, and her big move to Chicago to be closer to family, I can't wait to see what she has the time and energy to create now!!  I think, out of all of the many, many sets of clip art I have purchased, I own the most of her designs.  Oops, sorry, getting a bit carried away!!  :-)

I really like this font because it's 'hollow', or a stencil-type font.  That means, if I make it large enough, my kinders can color in the letters.  That opens up all sorts of creative possibilities!!  Krista has EIGHT different FREE fonts in her TPT store, all with the ability to be used as personal or commercial.  

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Another fabulous creator from a new TPT store I came across, The Newsletter Store, is offering up a FREE three-pack of chalkboard-style fonts.

These fonts are for PERSONAL USE ONLY, but if you are interested in purchasing a commercial license for single use only -OR- a license for use of ALL of their fonts.  It's definitely going on my Wish List!!

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Another new store I found is First Grade News, and she is offering up a FREE pack of four cute fonts. I love the names, anything with the word 'cupcake' in it makes me smile!  :-)

You may use these fonts commercially as long as you provide a link to her blog!

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This font was found at the TPT store Teacher Tam, and I really like the scrap-booky look of it, and that most of it is 'hollow'.

The designer grants permission to use in TPT products, and would appreciate a link back to her store.  Isn't this a cute font that would fit in perfectly with classroom displays??

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This TPT store has SUCH a cute name...This Little Piggy Reads!!  This little gem was a great find, and contains EIGHT different fonts!!

She offers these fonts FREE for personal and small business commercial use (in other words, you can use them in your TPT products).  There are several adorable fonts that would work perfectly in creating activities for early childhood skills!!

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The last TPT free font freebie find I'll be sharing with you comes from the store of Monica Abarca.  She has SIXTEEN other FREE fonts you can download from her store!!

This one is called 'Monica's Foggy Morning', and I like the style.  It's perfect for composing letters to go home or worksheets for students to complete.  She gives you license to use in your personal and commercial products, as long as you provide a link back to her TPT store or her 'button' in your credits.  The button is provided in the download.

PLEASE remember to leave a rating and some feedback when you download these awesome freebies!!  Their creators worked hard to share their creations with you, and it makes people feel good to say nice things about their hard work!!  :-)

Don't forget to go back to The Teaching Tribune to check out the other awesome free fonts being offered today!!  Hurry, this is THE LAST FREE FONT FRIDAY!!!

Have a GREAT weekend!!!

Following Free Font Friday

Happy Fourth of July everyone!!  I hope you all get to spend time with friends and family today, doing all those awesome holiday activities.  Please remember to keep your furbabies safe during any firework events today.  They don't like the noise and it could make them run away, and I know if that happened to my baby Isis  I would be DEVASTATED!!  Luckily, I have her microchipped just in case anything awful happens.

On this, my most favorite day of the week, I shall be linking up with The Teaching Tribune for the AWESOME linky party they are hosting: FREE Font Friday.  I love fonts so much I do believe I have a problem...'Hello, my name is Erin and I'm addicted to fonts'.  Luckily I know I'm not the only educator with this problem!!!

Today their guest blogger is Karla from Life in Special Education.  She has so many cute fonts and clip art sets in her TPT store, you should go check them out!  She is offering up a FREE font today, called 'One Room Schoolhouse Fun'.  Click the picture below to go over to The Teaching Tribune and grab a copy for yourself!!

How cute is that font??!!  As an added bonus, the font won't take up that much ink when printing so it could be used to create large files or activities.  SCORE!!!

PLEASE don't forget to go back to The Teaching Tribune to get the rest of the AWESOME free fonts other bloggers are offering!!

I have never created a font, so I don't have anything to offer up for FREE Font Friday except my knowledge of some pretty great free fonts.  If you are a Font Addict like myself, you'll want to go snatch these up!!  If you snap up these freebies, please don't forget to leave some feedback for the creator!!  Everyone needs to hear how awesome they are every once in a while!!  :-)

First up I found a really great starter set of fonts at the Wizard of Boz TPT store.  If you like the FREE starter set, make sure to check out the rest of the fonts Abby has for sale!!  Just click on the images to go over to the creators TPT store and grab your freebie!!

There are 11 different handmade fonts in this FREE starter set, and they are an awesome addition to my Font Book!!

The second set I'd like to share with you was created by one of my newest favorite designers, Randi from Teaches Third in Georgia.  I share one of her AMAZING free fonts last Friday, and I have already used it in several new products.  Here is an entire set of FREE fonts that she created.

 This supreme packet contains 19 FREE fonts!!  All of them have a super cute breakfast themed name, and the packet is called 'Breakfast Buffet. So Cute!!  It makes it much easier to find in my font book to, because ALL of her fonts start of with 'TTG' so they are all grouped together.  One of my favorite fonts from this set is the 'Cheerios' font.  It's so scrappy and fun, I just love it!!

I hope you have been able to find a few new fonts to add to your collection!  I know that I look forward to this linky party all week, and my font book has seriously grown in size this summer!!

Have a great holiday weekend, and remember to keep your furry babies safe!!  :-)

This one's my fav, 'cause they're all pit bulls.  I LOVE my pit bull, and think the breed as a whole gets way too bad a rap.  Anywho, that's a post for another day!!  :-)

Mix it Up Monday AND Following Free Font Friday

Happy Monday!!  So very sorry that I missed getting to blog all last week!!  I could not kick a migraine, and it's been hanging around for WAY TOO LONG now!!  On top of that, I had my niece Lilly while my sister was at work.  I must give MAD PROPS to all of the mommies out there who are able to work and blog and create things for TPT while handling your little ones!!  Lilly is only 5 months old but boy did she keep me hopping!!  How could you not love this face though??

Here are a few goals I'm working on for the summer.  Mind you, I mean just a FEW.  As teachers I know we ALWAYS have TONS of goals to accomplish and items to check off of our To Do Lists, and I would never have time to share them all!!  So, just a few.

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I have been thinking a lot about my TPT store and how to make it even better.  I currently have 74 products listed in my store, with over 20 freebies.  I have decided that my goal for the summer is to get 100 products in my store before school starts again in August.  I'm not sure if that's a goal I'll be able to accomplish, but I'm gonna give it my best effort!!  I do so enjoy checking things OFF my To Do Lists, so I created this little graphic to help count down to my being able to Create To 100 and get 100 products up in my TPT store, as well as adding to my collection of freebies!!  I think I'm more than a bit OCD (or, as my cousins Colleen and Heather call it, CDO since that puts all the letters in ABC order) when it comes to creating.  It's a lot like scrap booking for me, and I really enjoy making new creations.  Part of me wishes it didn't take so long to create them!!  Case in point, this little graphic took me well over an hour to get it looking how I wanted.  Okay, closer to two hours.  Does that mean I have a problem??  I used the awesome creations from Creative Clips (graphics) and Teachers Third in Georgia (font) to make my little count down picture!!

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If you are a TPT regular you may have noticed that they have made a few changes.  If you are a TPT seller, there are even more changes.  One of the newest is their Feedback Section, where they have categorized the paid purchases downloaded and the freebies downloaded.  This provides an option where you can go leave a rating and feedback in the form of comments to the creator of the activity or clip art.  

I have always commented and provided feedback on purchases I have made on TPT because of the credits you can earn toward future purchases.  How selfish is that of me??  Anyway, I try to leave comments for the freebies I download, but I will be the first to admit that I don't leave comments for anywhere NEAR all of the freebies I have downloaded from TPT.  This newest feature tracks your downloaded freebies back as far as January of 2014.  If I have had this many downloads in only a short six (almost seven) months, I can only imagine how many I have had since I found TPT in 2012.

So I decided I really needed to go back and make sure I have left a rating and comment for ALL of the freebies I have downloaded since January of 2014.  I'm thinking if I can rate and comment on at least 10 a day (give or take) then I should be able to be caught up with all of them by the end of the summer.  I, as a seller, know how frustrating it can be when you put your hard work and creativity out there and there is no feedback at all, negative or positive.  Everyone needs to hear they're doing a good job every now and again, we are human after all.  :-)

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I have been following the AWESOME linky party hosted by The Teaching Tribune.  They actually have a different linky party for every day of the summer, but so far I have only linked up with Friday. (I'm thinking of trying a few more!!)   This is their Free Font Friday linky.  I have never, ever created a font.  However, I simply love to add different fonts to my Font Book.  I know there are many others out there who love fonts just as much.  I want to share their posts so anyone who reads my little blog may learn about this awesome linky and go check it out for themselves.  I missed being able to post on this past Friday, but I wanted to share with you the fonts I grabbed.  Better late than never, right?

There are some truly awesome fonts up for grabs this week!!  There is a new blogger featured this week with a super-cool font freebie.  I just LOVE the name!!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the bloggers who have linked up for this Free Font Friday (unlike myself, they actually create fonts and are offering up some freebies!!)

I found an AWESOME free font that I simply LOVE!!  It isn't part of the linky party, but I wanted to share it with you anyway!!  It is created by Teaches Third in Georgia and is called TTG Scribble Fonts.  It is absolutely PERFECT to use on a black background or a chalkboard-type background.  Best of all, it's FREE!

If you don't have this font yet, make sure to hop over to TPT and download it for yourself!!  Just follow the picture above!  Don't forget to leave some feedback!!

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I've decided to link up with The Teaching Tribune to do another one of their linky parties.  On Mondays, they have Meet Up Mondays.  This is a day dedicated to learning more about the different bloggers who have linked up.

They have even provided a little template where we can state three things we are thankful for.  So, here goes!!

I had a lot of fun writing today's post, and am working on my post for tomorrows Book Talk Tuesday, and I think I'll link up with The Teaching Tribune again for their Tuesday linky party.  Make sure to check back with me tomorrow!!

Following Free Font Friday

Oh my goodness, is it already June 20th?!?!?  Why oh why does the summer fly by so quickly??  I hope that, seeing as how tomorrow is the first official day of summer, all of you fabulous educators are now on your summer vacation!!

Today marks Week 3 of Free Font Friday linky party hosted by The Teaching Tribune!!  There are some REALLY amazing fonts being offered up this week, so you should totally go check them all out!!

I wish I was as talented as these fabulous ladies!!  I am SO addicted to adding to my Font book, honestly I don't know any teacher who isn't addicted to snapping up as many cute fonts as possible!!  With all these new fonts, and being a part of Krista Wallden's Summer VIP Club, I have decided to celebrate summer with my first SUMMER SALE!! 

To create this awesome sale flyer I used one of Krista's newest creations, the Bumpy Page Clings.  This amazing set came as my Week 3 goodies from being a part of the Summer VIP Club.  The font I used to create the flyer is PondFreeSummer that was created by Mel from Graphics From the Pond and offered on The Teaching Tribune as part of Week 1's Free Font Friday.  I am really enjoying the time to be creative this summer, as well as catch up on my To-Create List!!  I will be adding products to my store all weekend, so make sure to come and follow my store so you'll be notified of each new item that goes on sale from now until midnight Monday!!

Simply click on the sale flyer picture above to go directly to my TPT store and snap up some of my creations while the sale is going on.  Hurry, sale ends Monday at midnight!!

Make sure to make the most of your summer everyone!!  I know I am!!  :-)

Last Day of School AND Following Free Font Friday

It's the weekend!!  I had totally meant to post this yesterday, but time just seemed to get away from me!!  Yesterday was my last day with my kinders, and I must admit that I choked up a few times today!  :-)  It was amazing to watch them learn and grow this year, and I know that some of them have made friends for life!!  Each one of my Dragons had such a unique style and personality, and I will miss each of them!!

My littles got to help me begin the room pack-up process.  I am going to cover my bulletin boards to protect them when the walls are washed, so I had them draw and write on white bulletin board paper today.  This took up over an hour of time with them completely engaged (which surprised me).  They were very excited that they would get to do this with no shoes on, since our countdown envelope today was "Shoe Break"!!

Remember that I'm using Jennie's from JD's Rockin' Readers AWESOME freebie, The Final Countdown?  {If you didn't get a chance to snag it before you were done for the year, click on the pic below to grab one to use for next year!!!)

My kinders LOVED getting to choose an envelope each day...and I managed to 'facilimanipulate' their last day choice to be the 'shoes off' one, since were weren't really doing anything that involved us having to leave the classroom.

Here's a pic of the blank bulletin board paper I had my kinders decorate for me...and on Monday I'll take pics of my covered boards so you can see their finished products!!  :-)

They worked really well together, and it was a great activity for them to participate in on the last day of school.  Added bonus, it did not cost me anything in either money or time, because they were doing all of the work!  Plus, I now have covers for my bulletin boards so that I don't have to take them down and they'll be ready for next year.  BONUS!!!

Something else I wanted to make sure to mention happened yesterday.  It was Week 2 of Free Font FRIDAY!!!

Remember my last Friday post explaining all about the awesome that is happening over at The Teaching Tribune every Friday, that the wonderful Mel from Graphics from the Pond participates in??  I was able to get another FABULOUS FREE FONT from Mel to add to my collection!!!

Don't you just LOVE her creations??!!  I know I do!!!!!  I am so very grateful that she has shared her hard work and creativity in such a wonderful way!!

Oh, and guess what??  When I hopped on over to The Teaching Tribune to continue with my Free Font Friday experience, there was a guest post from Stef over at Miss Galvin Learns.  She has a super-cute free font she created just for the Free Font Friday hop!!

You should also hop on over to Stef's blog and snap up her newest offer!!  For a short time, she is offering her MGL Exclusive Font Pack for just $5!!!  This awesome pack already has over 20 exclusive fonts, and as Stef adds more you can update the pack at NO EXTRA CHARGE!!!  You can also buy the pack at any time, however the price will go up as she adds more of her fonts so grab a copy soon at the perfect steal of $5!!!  I just now grabbed a copy for myself and I can't wait to start creating!!  :-)  Just follow the button below to go to her blog and check it out for yourself!!

Please make sure to head back to The Teaching Tribune to check out all of the other AMAZING folks who have linked up for Free Font Friday.  There are some truly great freebies and ideas being shared, so please make sure to check it out!!  I'm so grateful to be snagging up such great freebies and deals this weekend, that it has inspired me to do a little creating and offer up a few deals and freebies this week!!  :-) {click the link above or the pic below to take you back to the linky}