The Great Calendar Roundup of 2010 - Part 2

kay, a few weeks late, but full of good intentions (and great deals!), here is the second half of the Great Calendar Roundup! (First half here.)

{Paper and Inkling presents this lovely calendar composed of 12 monthly cards packaged in a jewel case. Now on sale for $13.}

{These insanely colorful, beautifully printed calendar cards from Stephanie Fizer are only $18 for the set! She has a ton of other cute items like this, this and this!}

{Girl In Gear Studio is offering this plantable, frameable, totally usable calendar for $25!}

{These topo maps from Natures Cubbyhole are an ingenious idea; printed on the white side of US topographical maps, they are then hand-stitched and ready for you to use!}

{Indira Albert's 2010 desk calendar is on sale for $15 through 1/22/10. Beautifully printed, brightly colored, and well-priced, what more can you ask for?}

{The Simply Said 2010 Desktop Calendar from Ruffhouse Art  measures 4.25x5.5 inches and comes with a jewel case that converts to a stand. Other calendars available include Woodland Whimsy and Retro Mod.}

{Printable? Check. Chock full of adorable woodland creatures? Check. Ridiculously cheap at $5? Check. Available from Wild Olive? Check. Where to find? Here!}

{I love this idea from Sure As Blue; each month is printed on a postcard, so when it's over, you can mail it to a friend! Pass the art along! Or, if like me, you want to keep these and frame them becuase they're so dangcute, postcard size is super manageable, even if you frame all of them! Check out Indieology (top) and Chromatize (bottom)!}

{1canoe2 presents these really-quite-amazing calendars for your enjoyment. The tea towel calendar runs $37 and measures 15x22 inches and the poster calendar is $62 and measures 22x30 inches. These are both based on the letterpress calendar ($24 and 6x10.5 inches). I also enjoy their prints, like this one and this one!

I am still planning on buying some of these calendars featured, especially with these low prices (!), but I have to admit that Jonathan surprised me with a gift the other day:

The Yoga Cats 2010 Wall Calendar! It's super cute and makes me smile everytime I walk by it.

Don't Have a Calendar Yet? Never Fear!

Yes, I know it's January 8th. I know you're supposed to go buy your calendars before the year ends. But who has time for that? Who are these organized people? I don't know any of them.

What I do is leisurely look for a calendar on etsy. Especially by artists I like. That way I can get 12 frameable prints of their amazing work for the price of a calendar! Isn't that what you do? If not, you should start.

{Be Happy Now has been one of my fave etsy shops to peruse for a while. Jenny is a really talented artist and I love looking at her new listings! This is the small version of her 2010 calendar - you get twelve 3x4.5 cards for $12! If the traditional wall calendar is more your style, she has one here.}

{There's really nothing like a Polaroid. Everything is softer, the colors are muted and yet somehow they've always seemed vibrant to me. Vital. Like a slice of life or a piece of someone's day. Alicia Bock's 2010 Polaroid Calendar is just that. It's printed on iridescent paper which adds to the ethereal quality of the photographs. You get twelve unbound 5x7 cards for $29. She also has a 2010 calendar featuring her beautiful photographs of Paris here. SALE: enter code HAPPY ANNIVERSARY in the message to seller and get 20% off non-sale photographs and calendars.}

{A Year at the Fair calendar features twelve 5x7 carnival photos taken by bomobob for $19. The colors are bright and saturated and the excitement and slight creepiness of the fair is captured perfectly.}

{African Grey is a really fun, colorful shop packed with notebooks, greeting cards, prints, calendars and printable items. Whitney is a graphic designer (and soon to be first time mom!) who makes all of her items in her home studio. The Puppy Mugs Calendar (bottom) is a set of twelve 2.5” x 4.5” unbound sheets. The 2010 Puppies Calendar (top) is a mini calendar - each page measures 3" x 4" and is unbound. Whitney has many other calendars available, including a really lovely, graphic nautical one here.}

{I love the look of giclee. Giclee uses ink-jet printing on high-quality paper giving a really rich, vibrant and velvety appearance. The 2010 Giclee Calendar from joo joo includes twelve cards, each measuring 2 5/8" x 4". I've long been a fan of this shop, specifically because of prints like this one, this one and this one.}

{printables are one of my favorite things ever! This modern, graphic, Mid-Century Chairs Calendar is available for only $5! Five dollars! And it's eco-friendly - one page of 8.5"x11" paper will hold 2 months! You only need 6 pieces of paper for your whole year! Wow, this is a lot of !!!, I should calm down a bit. Blue Tricycle also has matching stationery to this calendar and you can get any 3 printables (calendars, stationery, gift tags) for only $10.}

Oh my gosh, I have SO many more to show you, but this post has been long enough! Check back on Saturday 1/9 for the second half of the 2010 Calendar Roundup!

More Monsters!

Prints and cards using these guys will be posted to my etsy shop later today!

I'm also thinking about doing a calendar - one monster per month and maybe a group shot of them all at the end. What do you think?

Cart-Worthy + Heart-Worthy

Is this calendar from SusyJack not the super-coolest calendar ever? You can hang one page on top of another, like a normal calendar or you be AB-normal and hang them like this - all spread out! OR you could hang them by quarters, so you can always see what's going on around you. The prints are so fresh, the colors are crisp, the whole effect is like art. When you're done, slip them into frames and they ARE art.

When we were younger, my grandpa would carry long, skinny balloons in his pockets and where ever we were, (but especially in restaurants) he would bring out a few and start making animals. He made dogs and flowers and small round balloons inside larger, cylindrical ones. Balloon animals always make me think of going to breakfast with my whole family. And since my kids probably won't get that experience (the balloons, not the breakfast), then this is second best. From Art Star.



ThinkGeek is one of my nerdy guilty pleasures - they have EVERYTHING you need but didn't know existed. Like this stealth switch - it's a USB connected foot pedal that tabs through your windows when pressed! SO YOUR BOSS DOESN'T EVEN KNOW YOU WERE HERE! I would totally buy this (since I do 99% of my shopping, posting and general internetting from work) if my boss wasn't my dad and wouldn't be like, "KATE, what is this cord? Are you bringing viruses into my office?"

"Of course I am, Dad. I'm actually a double agent; the Russians sent me here to disable your home office."