Calendar Haul Part 3 France Calendar

A year of the best quality pictures in a page a day flip calendar of France I have ever purchased. I got this for 75% off at a calendar kiosk in my local mall.

Me and this 365 days of  France calendar have a long history together. I have been buying this specific calendar since the earlier or mid 1990s. It has been a life long dream to be able to travel to Paris and then travel throughout France.

When I look at the beautiful, colorful and peaceful picture is my calendar it makes me work harder to make my dream of visiting Paris come true.

When I go about my yearly calendar buying ritual near the end of the year, this calendar (and a Marilyn calendar I find that I cannot risk selling out) are the few calendar I will bit the bullet and pay full price for.

Here's a link to Workman Publishing Co. Inc. site.

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Thomasina

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A Quick Tour of My Dayrunner Organizer

I've had this ProBusiness Dayrunner 225-59 for many years. After letting it go virtually unused for far too long, I decided to dust it off and use it for planning and organizing my blog administrative tasks. 

This Dayrunner is black faux leather with white stitching and a pocket on the front. I prefer the pockets to be on the inside because it is a more secure place to hold items.

It is a 7 ring binder which can be annoying when pages I want to insert only have three holes.  I have been using the pages from past years that weren't used for the current year. I just repurpose them for To Do List, Notes, Idea Lists, etc.

I might update my organizer in the future. I really do prefer writing down my schedule on actual paper using a pen, marker or even paint.

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Thomasina 

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Calendar Haul Part 2 - Desktop from Dollar Tree

This calendar haul features the desktop calendars I purchased for a dollar each at the Dollar Tree store. 

The full length view of the calendar use to write my work schedule, bills due dates , etc. located in my home office.

Side panel view of a full year calendar. 

Both calendarsi are distributed by Bendon Publishing International  1-888-5-BENDON

I love the pretty design of the swirling flowers and the bright happy colors. I use this calendar for scheduling blog tasks and planning. I usually write in my bedroom so this is on a desk in there


Both calendars are a little smaller than the normal office desk size found in office supply stores. But they are a good value and will do what I need them to do. You cannot beat a dollar item that will last a whole year.

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Thomasina

If you have questions or comments, you can also email me at thomasinawords@gmail.com

Calendar Haul Part 1 - Marilyn Monroe

I am starting my calendar haul series off with my Marilyn Monroe calendars. Since about 1995 I have been collecting Marilyn calendars.

I usually get a couple of the big calendars and a small one for my home office. My advice about calendar shopping is to shop early when the calendar first come out in the stores or kiosks for the best selection.


In recent years, the selection of Marilyn calendars is not as good. I am very picky about which Marilyn pictures I like and the quality of the pictures in the calendar.

The price range of the calendars is from $16.99 and below. I am lucky I will get more than one of the same calendar for use as prints from framing.

Calendars have always been more about an inexpensive piece of  beautiful and inspiring art for viewing throughout the years than just a tool for showing the day of the week or scheduling tasks.

The next calendar haul will be my desktop calendars from the Dollar Tree.

Thank you for reading my blogpost.

Thomasina

If you have questions or comments, you can also email me at Thomasina8@gmail.com

Watercolor Lesson-A-Day Calender - This is a good art exercise

This Lesson a Day calendar is a fun way to practice watercolor lessons or just doodles.You can learn how to paint with watercolors but it also has watercolor tips and artist information for each day too.

The good thing about this calendar is it a good way to learn watercolors on a  daily basis. Practice makes perfect definitely with improving artistic skills. The only problem I had with this calender was that the line drawings paintings are very small sized images - hard to paint at times. This is like a tiny watercolor coloring book.

Each page gives you a line drawing to  paint and it the beginning of each week the drawings are shown already colored and completed. You can use the pictures as reference.

I did a quick google and there are these types of watercolor lesson calendars still available online. Have you ever tried this type of calendar before?

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