Happy New Year 2014 Calendar
Happy New Year 2014!
I know I'm a little late kicking off the celebration, but at least I have not given up on my resolution to get back to blogging again. I made this cute little calendar a couple weeks ago, I just have not had time to share it with all of you. I made the calendars to give to the members of a swap group that I participate in every month through the mail
This month I felt that I really owed them a little extra something nice, because I screwed up big time.
I had gone to New York City to visit my son for Thanksgiving, and I was determined to have my swap cards for December in the mail before I left. I had started them, but the were not completed before I left, but that was no problem, because I would have a week to get them in the mail, when I got home. However, on my last day in New York I came down with a very bad cold. I came home and climbed in bed (after a miserable flight home), and I stayed in bed for days. I finished up the swap cards on Friday, and I was going to mail them on my way to a craft sale I was selling at on Saturday. I forgot to drop them off, and they ended up going into a tote box for the day, packed up when I left that night, and put in the trunk of the car. It was my last sale of the season, and I left those boxes in the trunk until after New Years, when I found the cards I never mailed! Ugh!! I could not mail them now that it was January, because they were Christmas cards. I had just made the cards to swap for January, and I had seen this cute idea for the calendar on LeeAnn Greff's blog, and decided to make them up for my 6th Swap friends. They were fun, fast and easy, and I made a few more to share with some other special friends.
I just stamped a page for each season, mounted them on all four sides of a standard card, and I connected the bottom with a tab to form an easel that slips behind one of the pages so you can flip it around when you need to.

Thank goodness I have deadlines to meet with the swaps. I have continued to be sick since Thanksgiving with this cold and cough coming and going. I have a couple good days, then I revert back to coughing again. I have tried all the remedies, and can't quite kick it, and this week I am trying some prednisone to see if that will cure it.
Come back soon, and see what else I have been doing.
Lovely calendars Mary Alice. Thanks for joining us at ATCAS.
ReplyDeleteLove your calendars, they are so pretty. I am sure the recipients loved them.
ReplyDeleteGreat calendar pages! Thanks for joining us at LNS.
ReplyDeleteLove these calendars Mary Alice - but had to laugh at your tale of woe, just the sort of thing that happens to me!:-) Thanks for joining the fun at ATCAS?
ReplyDeleteKaren x