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We’ll admit that we are a little old-fashioned and aren’t even planning on putting up our holiday decorations until after Thanksgiving. But we will embrace the new-fangled notion of day-after-Thanksgiving deals. (We won’t call it Black Friday, since we’re already in the black for the year.)

You might recognize these Pen & Ink Sketch Books from Art Alternatives as being similar to a product from another company that doesn’t actually involve the skin of any moles. The 3.5×5.5″ sketch books come with lines, grids, or just plain paper (as well as in a landscape format with plain paper). The MSRP for these is $9.99, and you may have seen some varieties of these on our clearance table recently for $4.99. We were able to get our hands on more, and we’re blowing them out for the incredible price of $2.99 each.

And once you have a sketch book, you need something to draw or sketch with, right? We have another great deal on 12 and 24 piece drawing and sketching sets.

The 12-piece Sketching Tin Set includes six graytone pastel sticks, three graphite pencils and three pastel drawing pencils. The 24-piece set includes four pastel drawing pencils, six graytone pastel sticks, three charcoal pencils, three woodless charcoal pencils, four graphite sketching pencils, a kneaded eraser, a latex-free eraser and two pencil sharpeners.

The 12-piece Drawing Tin Set includes five colored pencils, six colored pastel sticks, and a graphite sketching pencil. The 24-piece set includes ten colored pencils, two metallic colored pencils, eight colored pastel sticks, two graphite pencils, a kneaded eraser, and a pencil sharpener.

12-piece sets have an MSRP of $14.99, but are now on sale for just $4.99. The 24-piece sets have an MSRP of $29.99, and are on sale for just $9.99.

These deals will only be available while supplies last.

The Pilot Hi-Tec-C has been a long sought-after pen for many pen enthusiasts (I’m not kidding — they have blogs), but until recently it has only been available via importers. The Pilot G-Tec-C Micro-Rollerball Pen is the same pen, repackaged and slightly rebranded for the international market. The pens come in three sizes, 0.25mm, 0.30mm, and the (comparitively) huge 0.4mm, and in black, blue, or red. Get your own version of this infamous pen for 20% off for a limited time.