Happiness is a free graphic *UPDATED

I found a fantastically wonderful website - two of them actually - that saved my sanity as well as my (formerly) AWFUL blog design. My heart went pitter-pat when I stumbled on the beautiful and FREE! graphics from The Graphics Fairy. Oh how I swooned! And dug for hours through all her clip art. Her FREE clip art. *fans self with handkerchief*

And then. AND THEN. I tore my eyes away from the graphics long enough to see that she also has a blog for free blog goodies!

And I passed out with a mighty *thunk*.

When I came to, I clicked the link to The Background Fairy. Fortunately I had my smelling salts to hand, because this site is as fantastical as the former. I fell in love all over again, and after playing around for longer than I should admit, I finally picked the background your pretty little eyeballs are looking at right now. Isn't it lurvely?

So many graphics I that found I just had to have, even though I don't know what I'll create with them yet. Lemme sho you dem:

As you can see, I have a thing for birds. Which worked out fine, since The Graphics Fairy has so many lovelies to collect and cuddle with! (Mental cuddles, but only because I can't find my printer paper.)
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In other related-ish news, I was contacted a few days ago with an offer for a free ad spot on Craftcount. At first I was all suspicious-like, wondering who was pulling my leg and how hard I should kick them. But it seems my cranky doubtfulness was misplaced! So I jumped about for a while and made my husband come and look at the email (while he was watching some dudes beat each other up for a shiny belt, no less) (he was happy for me, but swift to depart) and then I started to worrrrrrry.
What if my ad is ugggggly?
What if nobody viiiiiiiisits my shoooooop?
Why is my hair so friiiiiiiiiizzy?
(If I had smoother hair I could make a prettier ad. That's just how I roll, peeps.)

So I fretted for a while, pulled my hair into a ponytail, and set to work! But. My images were all on my laptop, which is cantankerous. *sigh* My life is hard. (If only I had good hair!) Some swearing and stressing and picture locating commenced, and then magical finding of previously mentioned websites-of-awesome happened, and now I present you with my completed 150x100 pixel ad!

taa-daaa!
I'm pretty proud of myself, I must admit. Especially since I am a dork and can only use Paint to create and edit graphics. I would love love love your feedback - even negative feedback... I've stared at it for so long I've lost perspective. And my hair is messy. So. You know. I need all the help I can get. Or a hairstylist.

(Both. I need both.)

(And a nap.)

In the meantime, my ad has been sent off and I will be informed as to when it will be up at Craftcount! I'll let you know as soon as I find out when it will be on the site, and you can join me in my happy dance! (Watch out though, I am a terrible dancer and have no rhythm whatsoever. True story.)

Oh, I almost forgot! I also created a new banner for my shop! Pop on over to check it out!

*UPDATE*
My add will be running on Craftcount from April 27th through April 30th! Weeee!