Showing posts with label calendar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calendar. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 October 2024

My 2025 Floral Calendar May Look Familiar...

Hello there, and hope all is well in your corner of the world. Today I've something to show you, but also a tale of my own blunders intended to make you smile.


Firstly, if you're on the hunt for a lovely floral calendar, full of watercolour flowers at every time of year, this may be the post for you.

Image shows the front of the calendar, featuring blue line and wash watercolourdelphiniums.
2025 Calendar Front Cover



Here's the back of the calendar, showing all 12 images together...


Iamge shows the back of the calendar: 12 smaller images to illustrate each month's flowers.
Back cover showing all 12 images



And a peek in more detail. Some of the months show the flowers in context (like February and July).

Image shows lavender tumbling out of a large terracotta pot, all depicted in line and wash watercolour.
February's calendar image
  transports you
 to lavender in
 a summer garden...



Image shows a line and wash watercolour of whimsical butterflies on a purple/mauve butterfly bush.
July's happy butterflies are in a 
different garden
...



Others show the flowers in even closer detail, (like March and October).


Image shows my line and wash image of bright yellow daffodils in a glass vase.
Bright daffodils await you
in March...



Image shows my line and wash watercolour painting of a cascade of bright orange nasturtium flowers and their green leaves...
And mellow nasturtiums
feature in October...







And if this calendar looks familiar...

And secondly,  if you've been reading here a while, and these images somehow look familiar, you're right.

There is indeed a post from 15th December (!!) 2023, featuring a similar calendar.

Which (as pretty much anyone but me would've realised at the time) is, waaaaay too late for anyone who wants their calendar to start on, oooh, I don't know, something radical like...Jan 1st...:-) :-) :-)...Never mind actually getting it in time to send as a gift at Christmas...

Plus the fact that, as it turns out, though I bought private copies, I was clearly in such a pre-Christmas spin last year, that even if anyone had been relaxed about the start-date...I never actually put the calendar properly for sale in my shop last year. (Basically, the lovely flowers floated sadly in a kind of no-man's land internet ether...).



But...

Having bought those private copies however, I can confirm that this really is a lovely thing. Which, finally, and updated to start on Jan 1st 2025,  you actually have a chance to buy now in my online Zazzle shop, in plenty of time, both for Christmas, and the start of 2025...

On that note, and hoping that this tale of my own complete and unwitting ineptitude has made you smile, whatever your stance on calendars... I'll take my leave.

Thanks so much, as ever, for being here, and for reading down this far.

More soon.

Friday, 15 December 2023

A New Month by Month Illustrated Floral Calendar

Image shows the fromnt cover of a floral calendar, featuring a blue delphinium sketch
Click or tap here for details...

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Update on Oct 2nd 2024: This calendar didn't go into the shop as it was supposed to in 2023.
 You can read the whole story here,  and/or buy the version updated to start on Jan 1st 2025, here).  (All links in this post have now been updated to point to the 2025 calendar).

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Hello there

Briefly as ever at this time of year, thought you might like a look at something that can take you through, not just the year, but any year you might choose.

My new watercolour floral calendar, features the best loved and most popular of my floral images, And, as it can be made to start in any month of any year, *any* time you're reading this is a great time to grab a copy for yourself, or as a thoughtful gift for a friend.

Composite image showing all 12 images in the floral calendar, taken from the back of the calendar.
Click or tap here for details



What I particularly like about this calendar is that you can also personalise it to reflect the important dates in your own country or culture. National holidays can vary so much that this is a *really* welcome feature.

Image shows the summer poppies painting at the top, with a month's layout underneath.
Click or tap here to see more...


And just to say...

If you're reading this around the time it goes out, the first thing to send you is my love and good wishes for any festivities you may be diving into, and for a brighter 2024 for the entire world.

On a practical note, this  will be my last post until well into January 2024. After taking a complete break, (including some art retreats) I'll be renewing and re-building things around here...Something which, if you've been around here in the past few months, you'll probably already know is long overdue :-). 

In the meantime though, thank you so much for having been with me in all of this, and I look forward to saying hello again in a few weeks.

Have fun, and see you soon!

Thursday, 5 November 2020

2021 Calendar Cartoon

 Today's cartoon is all about a 2021 calendar:


Now I had been about to get all clever with this, and announce a 2021 calendar full of cartoons at the same time.

Until discovering that most sane people embark on a project like this in about July of each year, not November.

Nonetheless, it would still be theoretically possible to get one to you if there's a demand.

What do you think?

Please have your say over on the Facebook page.

Many thanks and in any event, enjoy the cartoon. 


More tomorrow.

Friday, 27 September 2013

Squirrel Calendar 2014 (Sorry, Just Couldn't Resist The Opportunity to Produce It)

It's no secret that I love squirrels...So much so that I named a blog after them. Which means that when I noticed it was easy to make a calendar of squirrel photos...The (unoriginally named) Squirrel Calendar 2014  just had to come to life.




It's a collection of our squirrel photos (ie all taken either by me or by The Computer Man-with the other of us usually giving out nuts...).

And we made it because we would like a copy. But if you *do* know any squirrel lovers, feel free to point them in its direction (or give 'em a gift).

More (non-squirrelly) art next week.