I don't know of anyone besides myself who does this crazy thing. I keep my favourite calendars from past years and cut pages from a current calendar to cover the date part. This first calendar with its simple but lovely watercolours is too lovely to simply get rid of.
Here you can see I stuck August 2020 over 2019. I did this for the coming year.
This next one is from 2005 and hangs here in front of my computer desk. I love the little pocket that it has.
Thanks for stopping by today,
GRANNY MARIGOLD
I love to keep calendars from previous years. For me they are unique little books of art! I always search for ones that have lovely art from artists instead of photographs
ReplyDeleteOh, Roger does not even want to go with me to get a calendar! Not only do I care about the pictures. that is the first priority, but I also like the numbers to be big and dark till I can easily see them across the room. Plus, one place I put a calendar has to have a narrower one. So I have to be careful with that.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes keep calendars just because I can't bare to throw them away. I have been trying to come up with an idea of how to use them.
I think what you do is brilliant and you have some beautiful calendars. Every year I buy a new Thomas Kincaide calendar for my best friend and myself. Years ago I bought us both the frame that holds the calendar. It has become our tradition for me to get us both new calendars each year although they are getting quite expensive and I may have to stop before long.
ReplyDeleteI also have a day-timer that I keep birthdays, appointments, etc. in that sit's next to my knitting chair. It goes everywhere with me. I call it my brain. :-)
I hope you're have a lovely day.
Blessings,
Betsy
I love the calendar I have used this year and was wondering what to do with it. What a great idea to just cover the date with the new year's bit cut from another calendar. I may just have to try that.
ReplyDeleteI order a calendar from Shutterfly with my own photos on it and make it a nice sized calendar too! I like to have space to write stuff!
ReplyDeleteI save old calendars and use them in decoupage projects. I'm with you they are too pretty to throw away.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much just turn the calendar picture to the back and just have the date part visible. It takes up less space. The calendar I use most is a weekly planning calendar, spiral bound, and again I see only the dare part.
ReplyDeleteThat is a really great idea! We get our calendars for free (charities, the church, parents). I like this idea of repurposing rather than being completely wasteful.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea! I often am sad at having to say good-bye to a favorite calendar. In fact, I have some of them still, and maybe I can renovate them as you do!
ReplyDeleteI think it was smart to reuse the calendar! There are so many lovely calendars. When my husband and I were young we bought frames on flea markets and put art calendar pictures in them. Each year I get a calendar from one of our sons for Christmas. I look for calendars at Amazon and pick some that I write on my wishinglist :)
ReplyDeleteI don't even get a calendar to hang up. I get a desk type of calendar and have it on my desk in front of my computer.
ReplyDeleteI do like a pretty calendar, but probably am closer to being like your husband than you. Yesterday when I was out I picked up free ones from the bank and Davis Meats. May not use them, will see what else I come across. I have kept lovely calendars from previous years, with the intention of doing something with them, but never did. Just checked my free calendars, one shows the phases of the moon, the other does not, darn.
ReplyDeleteWe have some old calendars of Tolkien art that we hope to frame one day - so I love old calendars too! and I think it is a great idea to reuse them like you did!
ReplyDeleteI think it must be a girl thing, that looking for 'just the right' calendar. I had thought I might print out month pages to recycle some of my prettier calendars, but I had never heard of anyone else doing that. Now I know I am not alone. :-) I have one in my kitchen so I can look at it and think about day's plan while I make breakfast and also keep track of my meds, etc. Another one hangs in my office/sewing room, again an at-a-glance function. The third one sits beside my computer. This one is the ruler of the household. It holds all the secrets and plans that keep us functioning. Calendars and clocks are good things.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm crazy about pretty calendars and have kept several old ones. I love your idea of cutting out and using the pretty ones on a new calendar. I picked up a free calendar at the hardware store this week, but the pictures are awful. Maybe I will use your idea. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI have two kinds of calendars: the free ones that merely help me not miss appointments, and THEN, the gorgeous ones that I keep for years. I have one in my kitchen from 2001. Each month is a pretty tea set (you'd like this, GM!). I keep it open to a favorite antique blue and white set. I also have a couple of old calendars from the '90s on my back porch from a company whose name I forget. It's hard to throw them out - the pictures are just lovely.
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