Free February Desktop and iWhatever Calendar (and a Digital Valentine)

Happy Valentine's Day! If I lead off with that, I feel like I'm right on time. Otherwise I'm just posting a calendar half a month late. 

If you have a last minute Valentine emergency, here's a digital Valentine you can share:

Here's a pretty background for your desktop:

And one for your iWhatever:

And even one to print if you like: 

Sorry to post and run, but I hear the cries of some wood flooring we are trying to rescue....

Free January 2016 iWhatever and Desktop Calendars

I know, I know.... It's already January 3rd! Your phones, tablets, and computers are ready to put away their Christmas decorations, but Michele hasn't got their January attire ready yet. My apologies. I've been playing Photoshop. (I've said for years that Photoshop is my version of a video game. As soon as I click on that little icon, I get sucked in and lose all track of time, just like a gamer.) 

My son told me about Photoshop's "Magic Wand" a couple of years ago. He was a bit bewildered that I did not know how to use it. His exact words were, "You don't know about the Magic Wand? Prepare to have your mind blown." That's how cool the Magic Wand is: I remember, word-for-word, being introduced to it. I still think it is mind-blowing, especially when I'm able to do something like I did for this calendar! 

The snowflakes in this calendar were crocheted by my 92 year old grandmother! Aren't they beautiful?! She made a dozen for me many years ago, but they were lost in our garage fire in February, along with most of our Christmas decorations, so SHE MADE MORE FOR ME! I have The Best Grandma. (Hi Grandma!)

So anyway.... I was able to scan in the snowflakes and use (you guessed it!) The Magic Wand to remove all the background around each snowflake and in between all the stitching with just a couple of clicks of the mouse! Now I have digital images of some of Grandma's snowflakes that I can use over and over again. How cool is that?! Each finished snowflake is saved as a png file, so it's just the image--no background. I'm not sure how this will show up, but I'm going to give it a shot....

Now, back to the calendar. Your phones are probably getting impatient. Here is one for your iWhatever:

I hope these ^ have been working for you. Sometimes phones and tablets blow up the picture so big that you can't see the whole calendar, so this way, the empty space around the edge is all that is off the screen. (Hopefully.)

And here is the desktop version, with all that empty space for your icons.

If you'd like to see more of my family's hand-crafting skills, click over to last January's calendar, where I used a photo of the quilt my mother-in-law gave me for Christmas. Beautiful! 

Here's to a wonderful 2016 for all of you! Thanks for stopping by! 

Free December Desktop and iWhatever Calendar

Oh my! It's December!!! Where has the year gone?! I just can't believe how quickly the months pass!

Your phone/tablet/desktop (even your refrigerator!) is probably ready for a change, so here you go....

 A nice sparkly (VERY green) calendar to save to your phone or tablet's lockscreen. These are big pictures (digitally speaking) so they print nicely, too, if you'd like one to hang on a bulletin board or the frig. Right, Grandma? 

This one has some space for all the desktop icons that seem to accumulate....

And this one is a "Just-in-case" calendar. There is a little extra background around it, just in case your phone or tablet likes to blow up pictures on your lockscreen. The extra background helps it fit better. Yeah, I know it sounds weird, but trust me. One of the iWhatever updates made lockscreen pics so big that the calendar didn't fit. This seems to work. Like I said--weird.

So there you go. Now your electronics are ready for all the upcoming festivities!

Have a Wonderful Holiday Season! Thanks for stopping by!

Free November Desktop and iWhatever Calendar

It's November! We have turned back the clocks and traded flip flops for knee boots. Pride and Prejudice is loaded on my phone AND my Nook. Yes, that's right. The first cold dreary November day will find me curled up sideways in my big chair-and-a-half, reading Jane Austen. Again. 

So of course I stuck with my tradition of using the Jane Austen font for this month's calendar. 

Here is one for your desktop...

...and a version with a little extra space, just in case your phone or tablet enlarges the big calendar (at the top of the post) too much...

If you'd like to make your own, here are the days and dates in the Jane Austen font:

Now that your electronics are feeling pretty, you can load them up with some nice romantic happily-ever-after books so you can read ANYWHERE. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by!

Free October Desktop and iWhatever Calendar

Hey! Long time, no see, right? ;) I have a calendar ready for you and it's ONLY October 2nd! lol And this time I even have the extras! Here's the full-sized version:

 Here is one for your desktop:

This one has a lighter background that is less busy, just in case the leafy background is too much with your desktop icons:

And finally, one with a little extra background to help it fit on your phone's screen a little better.

There you go! Enjoy! I know my phone is very happy to get rid of the May calendar. Thanks for stopping by! See you next time!

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!