2011 Calendar: Cabin and Cub

A proper New Year's resolution by James Agate (British diarist and critic): "To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."

To that end, here's a little desk calendar from Cabin and Cub to remind you of just how much time you have.



Cabin and Cub:

Celebrate your year with 12 months of Cabin + Cub mixed media collage
images to brighten your days! Perfect for your lovely home, office or
as a gift.

Each calendar comes with 12 different individual
cards (one for each month) printed with Ultrachrome K3 archival inks on
heavy rich archival matte paper. Each calendar also includes a reusable
wooden mini easel stand.

Dimensions: each card is 4 x 5.25
inches. easel height is 5". Total height of assembled calendar is 6.5".
each calendar is packaged in a cello bag.

$20 USD

2011: Calendar 5: INK + WIT

Totem Animals at Play by Tara Hogan, INK+WIT:

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2011: Calendar 4: Sandra Juto

Sandra Juto Illustraton:

Three  laminated pocket calendars in a package to keep tempis from fugit-ing.
8$ USD plus 2$ USD shipping.

Sandra also has her prints on sale. If you buy one, you get one free. One for you, one for Santa...

2011: Calendar 3: Night Owl Paper Goods

Here's my 2011 pick for a lifeboat to carry me through the wreck of time. It's made of eco-friendy wood by the fine folks at Night Owl Paper Goods:

Above images from the 2011 Botanical Calendar - this one's for my desk.

And I'm tempted to keep this owly one for my wall, though it's supposed to be a gift.

2011 Danish Owl Calendar

2011: Calendar 2: Sally Harless (Sadly Harmless)

Sally Harless is an artist in Bloomington, Indiana, who graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University. Her work "fuses images reminiscent of children's books with the struggles of adjusting to adulthood, and often involves elements of nostalgia and humor."

Love this quirky Sadly Harmless calendar of 2011 Adventures, featuring ink and watercolor illustrations of animals venturing to places they normally wouldn't go. Dimensions: 8.5x14 inches when unfolded. $12 US.

And that fondly reminds me of this headline from The Onion: 10 Million Killed Annually By Stepping Out of Comfort Zones.

2011: Calendar 1: Atherton Lin

We featured Atherton Lin last year. Here's the offering for 2011:

Across the Sea: 16.50 USD plus shipping

Geographies real and imagined, collections of small intrigue and landscapes of longing combine to tell stories of travel and wanderlust. ACROSS THE SEA is the new installment of the Atherton Lin narrative, a wall calendar for the year 2011 and a journey of high adventure and perpetual adolescence. As usual, it is hand drawn in watercolour and reproduced to high standard in London, England.

The calendar measures 230mm high x 297mm wide, litho printed with vegetable-based inks on heavy matte 100% recycled paper. Printed by Calverts Co-op in East London

 

Calendar Roundup

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

-Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, chapter 2, 1989

It is time to look at our favorite calendars found in Hedges around the world. If we need a lifeboat in the wreck of time, it might as well be an inviting one. Stay tuned.