

And I have to consider factors like: will my daughter still be with her boyfriend all year? Hm, maybe I’d better just include him in a couple of months at the beginning of the year, just in case.

So I’m saying I go through this making process three times, though there is overlap in some of the photos. I want pics of everybody, plus lots of pics of my dog in my calendar. And I avoid pics of my mom and her house and husband for my dad’s calendar. My parents aren’t together, so I avoid pics of my dad and his house and his new family for my mom’s calendar, plus pics of her since she doesn’t like photos of herself.

I process each of those in photoshop, copy and paste them into the template, then resize and jigsaw them together, then upload them onto a calendar-making site. Then I make 12 14×10 templates and choose an assortment of photos from the starred ones to go on each template. Then I go through that folder (usually several hundred) and mark the best of the best with 5 stars. The calendar also reveals the featured flowers’ secret meanings from the 19th century, when young women from high society sent bouquets to communicate feelings and messages.Every year I get the Hedgehogs! calendar I first saw in one of your posts for my daughter and I intend to do the same again if I can find it here in Canada (it’s been harder and harder to find over the years).Īnd I suppose I’ve lovingly groused about my family wall calendars before, but I won’t let that stop me from doing so again: I comb through all the photos I’ve taken with my camera and iPhone over the year, and the photos in my husband’s and daughter’s iClouds, and download the ones that catch my eye onto my computer. For gardeners and plant lovers, this environmentally friendly wall calendar is packaged in a plastic-free envelope and features breathtaking art.Įach monthly spread features a bewitching illustration of a bouquet or flower from artist Jessica Roux’s gorgeous bestselling botanical encyclopedia, Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers.
