Category: Calendar

Here are a few more of my favorite perpetual calendars. From left, MoGuion’s Perpetual Calendar Magnets — perfect for the ‘fridge and I’d be more likely to rearrange it than the one I found for yesterday’s post. Next up: Krank Press’ Perpetual Gardening Calendar — they have three, one for Los Angeles, another for San Francisco, and the last for the amorphous “Northwest”. While I’m not much of a gardener, I like the idea of knowing what veggies and fruits are in season at the store. And finally Etcetrix’s one-of-a-kind Vintage Mechanical Calendar charm bracelet.

Late last year I wrote a post about my bad luck keeping a day-to-day calendar. For 2009, I bought a small (3″ x 6″) day planner covered in pretty marbled paper. And to my continued surprise, I’ve used it faithfully all year. It fits in my purse and with the bright paper cover I can find it quickly in the clutter of my desk. So for 2010 I’ve bought another small day planner, this one with an important added feature: a built-in rubber band to keep it closed.
While looking for day planners online, I noticed a preponderance of perpetual calendars. I especially like this one — both art and calendar. It’s from Evan and Nichole Robertson’s shop Little Brown Pen.

My current plan for 2010 is to make a less traditionally calendar-like calendar. My first “calendar” (from 2004) was a reading diary, a journal for keeping track of books read during the year — certainly not traditional.
In poking around the web the other day, here’s what I found to get me going on figuring out what I might do. One I quite like is the “weather calendar” to the right. The tree has a branch for each month, and enough empty leaves on each for the days in a particular month. As the year winds along, leaves are colored each day — green for good weather and blue for rainy weather — to produce a colorful tree that follows the seasons.
Then there’s PockMod… I think my friend Steve Woodall was the first person to tell me about this site, and the post on the Weather Tree Calendar also mentions it. The site lets you construct a one sheet organizer that you fold into a tiny booklet that fits in your pocket. There are templates for a large range of pages — calendars, shopping lists, reference and conversion charts…
Finally, this one by Jill at Beau Ideal is traditional in the sense that it has a monthly gridded calendar. But the typography of the names of people born in a particular month is really fun. Below is June. You can see all the months here.