Bright Ideas & Weekend Whimsy

🌼 Hello From My Desk!

Hi friends! I hope you’re easing gently into a fresh new week and finding a few happy moments wherever you are. Whether you’re working, resting, or creating, I’m sending you a warm wish for a lovely week ahead. 💛

Things have been busy in the Pond Office in the best way — the kind of busy where the desk is cluttered with pencils, coffee mugs, and half-finished sketches, and everything feels quietly productive.

🎨 A New Coloring Club Page!

If you’re doing a bit of crafting this week (or planning ahead for thank-you cards!), I added a brand-new printable to the Pond Coloring Club.

It’s a single sheet you can trim into four mini card fronts — each with a little message of thanks or gratitude and a small illustration to color and glue onto handmade cards. Sweet, simple, and perfect for kids or calm adult crafting time!

You can check it out here:
➡️ https://www.pondcoloringclub.com/

✨ A Happy Mini Desk Refresh

On Friday I posted on Instagram about five tiny, inexpensive (or free!) ways to bring a little happiness into the last days of November. One of my favorites was giving your desk a mini re-style: moving something, adding a small pretty thing, or creating a new little ritual.

I treated myself to a new candle — bright, cheerful, and scented like sweet cherries — and it completely refreshed my space. Inspired, I made some matching computer wallpapers too! If you love colorful, happy backgrounds, you might enjoy them:

🍒 Bright Cherry Pattern Wallpapers:
➡️ https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bright-Cherry-Pattern-Wallpapers-for-Teachers-Classroom-Device-Backgrounds-14917654

🧚‍♀️ Weekend Sketching Magic

My weekend was filled with relaxed, happy sketching — the best kind, the kind with no real plan, just an open page and a wandering pencil. I revisited one of my favorite themes: happy kids, blended with memories of flowers, little critters from nature, and (in a moment of whimsy) the idea of a tiny fairy landing right in my coffee mug.

All that daydreaming took shape as Australian Christmas Fairies — completely imaginary, of course, but full of sparkle and charm! If your children like coloring magical things, I made some printable pages for them too:

🎄 Christmas Fairy Coloring Book Pages:
➡️ https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Fairy-Crayon-Coloring-Book-Magical-Pages-Printable-Cover-14911550

And if you’d like to peek at the sketches in more detail, you can see them here on Instagram:
➡️ https://www.instagram.com/p/DRYlNmoEZac