Free September Calendar

I know, I know.... One third of September is in the history books. But if I don't post this calendar, I may never make another one. I made this one a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure why I felt like red, white, &blue, but I did. Once the calendar was finished I never could find the time to post it! I was about to blow it off (What's one more month?) when I realized that it is September 11th. What better day to give away a red, white, & blue calendar?! Sorry, but there are no extras this month: no desktop version, no cell phone version, no-days-and-dates-only-so-you-can-make-your-own version. Hopefully I will be back in October with all of those goodies!

Have a great month. Thanks for stopping by!

My mother-in-law's Google notebook isn't playing nicely with the calendar that I posted from my iPad, so here it is again from my desktop pc.  Let's see if this makes a difference....

Yes, I know it looks exactly the same, but you know how picky our computers can be sometimes.
I'll be back in a couple of weeks with a whole slew of October calendars for you! See you then!

Free May iWhatever and Desktop Calendar

Do you remember the movie "Overboard" with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell? Goldie's character is a very wealthy, pampered woman who falls off her yacht, suffers memory loss, and is convinced by Kurt Russell (a single father) that she is his wife and mother to his three rowdy boys. At one point she is so overwhelmed with her responsibilities that he comes home to find her sprawled in a chair muttering gibberish. That is how I felt by the time Friday arrived this past week. And then I realized I hadn't even thought about a calendar! I did not punt like I did last month. This is a new calendar, all hearty-flowery-blingy for Mothers' Day. I am, however, going to punt right now. I'm sure you all know what to do. ;)

One for your desktop...

and one for your phone/tablet...

Hopefully my job will have settled down a bit by the first of June and I will have the calendar ready for you BEFORE the month begins!

Have a wonderful May! Thanks for stopping by!

April iWhatever & Desktop Calendar

Time for your new calendar! 

Ok, ok, so we are already a day into April, but give a gal a break. I have been working at my REAL JOB--you know, when you go to a place at a specified time each day, perform your assigned tasks, then leave at a specified time (if your tasks are complete), and after a couple weeks of this routine, you are paid for your time and effort. I've been working more hours than I am accustomed to working in a week and it's taking a while for me to adjust!

I was looking back through past calendars for ideas when I came to last April's calendar and I liked it so much that I decided to use it again. I hope no one minds a re-run! 

That being said, here you go....

Now, if you need open space for your desktop (or laptop) icons, here is the version for you....

Sometimes iWhatevers don't play well with others, so here is a version just for them. It is sized down to fit on the screen a little better.

And finally, if you would like to design your own calendar, here is a copy of the days and dates for you in a nice font that reminds me a little of the numbers on old timey baseball jerseys. All that is missing is the swirly swish underneath. Very timely, right? You do know that Baseball begins in just a few days, don't you? 

Go Cards! 

Go Royals! 

Yes. I cheer for BOTH!

Thanks for stopping by! See you next time!

Free March iWhatever and Desktop Calendar

Time for a new calendar!!! Hopefully the new month will bring us some nice warmer weather. Don't the daisies and butterflies feel hopeful? The calendar above will work for your phone screen, or you can even print it and hang it on the refrigerator! 

This one is perfect for a computer desktop. There's lots of empty space around the edges for icons.

And if you don't feel like daisies and butterflies, here is a chalkboard calendar you can use to design your own!

That's it for now--short and sweet. Thanks for stopping by!

February iWhatever Calendar and Desktop

I do believe this is the latest I have ever put up a calendar! Sorry for the delay. I will get right down to business!

Here is a lovely calendar that will fill your screen, or can be printed:

This one has lots of open space around the calendar, so it works well as a desktop background:

This one has the open space at the top and bottom, so  it might work better on some phones:

And here is a version of the days and dates that you can use to make your own pretty calendar if you don't care for any of mine!

Now your phone can stop nagging about having an out-of-date calendar!

Thanks for stopping by!

January iWhatever Calendar and Desktop

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable time ringing in 2015 last night!  We were quite the party poopers, welcoming the new year from the sofa while watching "Guardians of the Galaxy." I'll settle for living vicariously this year. Our son Cole is in Auckland, New Zealand, the first major city in the world to welcome 2015. The new year began for them at 5 a.m. Missouri time!

This month's calendar features a section of the quilt my mother-in-law just made for us. I took a picture of it to use as the background. Isn't it beautiful?! The colors are a little off because it was cloudy the day I took the pictures. Of course it was cloudy! I think we had three--seriously, THREE!--sunny days the entire month of December! Anyway--it was cloudy and I just couldn't get enough light in that room, so the center of the quilt looks like a deeper blue than it actually is but the colors around the edges are pretty close to the real thing. The quilt is called "Storm at Sea," which makes sense with all the different shades of blue and the criss-crossing wavy lines. Lori is meticulous with the details on all the quilts she makes and it pays off. Each one is a work of art!

OK. So--here is a background for your desktop with lots of space for all those pesky icons that pile up on you:

And here is one for your phone if the big one up top is too big. Did you try the smaller one in December? How did it work for you? Let me know if I need to tweak anything else. I'll get to it eventually. ;)

If you would like to design your own calendar, here are the days and dates I started with...

...but why go to all that trouble when there are such pretty ones here, just waiting for you to click and save?

That's it for now! I think it's time for a nap. I mean, geez, I did stay up past midnight last night!

Thanks for stopping by!

December iWhatever Calendar and Desktop

Here we are, folks! Down to the last month of 2014! 

Is your phone ready for a new look?

Does the frame remind you of something from an old Christmas card? It came from Crafty Secrets' Vintage Christmas Digital Images and Ephemera. Wow! That's quite a mouthful! I've had that set for a couple of years and love it. I'm using one of the images of Santa for my Christmas cards this year. This calendar is going in the December Linky Party at the blog, and if I can figure out how to post a second item, I will include my card, too, in a couple of weeks. (I need to actually put some together first!) 

I had a great conversation with Sandy (the owner of Crafty Secrets) recently. I was having computer issues that carried over into my email and she called me to see what on Earth was going on! We talked for almost an hour! 

OK--back to December! Here is a calendar sized for your desktop, with lots of room for icons all around the edges....

...and here is a plain calendar if  you would like to design your own...

 Sometimes I still use the Coolibah app on my iPad to design these, but I am beginning to use Photoshop more and more all the time. Just pull in any background papers or embellishments you want to use and "build" it like you would if you were using paper. (Yes, I know that is an over-simplified explanation. One day I will get up my nerve to do a tutorial on using digitals. It's on my list. Along with forty-eleven other things!)

Here is something I might be able to cross off of my list. I've been playing around trying to come up with a solution for those pesky iPhones that blow up your pictures so much that they can't be used as a lockscreen. I thought maybe resizing the photo would work, but it didn't. Finally I decided to just put a big empty background behind the calendar, kind of like what I do for the desktop. I made one horizontal and one vertical. The vertical one fits perfectly on my iPhone lockscreen:

...but I thought the horizontal one might be better for smaller tablets, like iPad minis:

 I know it looks funny when you look at the whole thing--some of the embellishments are chopped off at the edges--but that won't show if the calendar is the right size. Please let me know if this is something you will use! It only takes a minute to add that background.

Now I must say goodbye and get to work on Christmas cards. In the interest of full disclosure, I send holiday cards. There are a whole lot of people who get all up in arms about that, like Christmas has a monopoly on glad tidings. Christmas is just one day! I want to wish everyone an ENTIRE SEASON of peace and happiness! Anyone who wants to hold that against me, be my guest. ;)

Thanks for stopping by! See you next time!