calendar fixation

Every year I spend hours and hours online, searching high and low for just the right calendar. I’m lost without one, but I’m very very fussy about them, I mean you’re going to be looking at it for a whole year right?!

For me it’s not just about the pictures, though obviously that does play a big part. My scrupulous list includes:

• I like the pictures to be predominantly hand painted artworks, not photos, not digital.

• I like the theme to be original, not done to death a thousand times before

• It needs to be cheerful, not gloomy

• The whole calendar has to fit in my "spot" in the kitchen

• I like the days to be laid out in a grid, week by week, not a long list. I like to be able to identify a week in a very quick glance. (I LOVE LOVE LOVE Camilla Engman's calendars, but they fail in this point).

• The days each need a big spacious square/shape for me to write lots of stuff in.

Umm, I think that covers it. The secret is out, I'm cale-anal. 

Last year I found a great free, customisable, printable one online at My Owl Barn.

The year prior to that I got it from Be Happy Now. (Actually I got one from her two years in a row because I loved them so much.)

Anyway, Lalaland have put together a 2013 calendar featuring lots of great illustrations. And upon first look it seems to tick all of my boxes. Good job Lalaland! And I'm not just saying that because one of my pictures is in there.

You can buy it online now for just shy of $20, right here!