2011 Calendar Round-Up, Part 6

Now that November is upon us, I’m getting ready to move on from calendars to holiday cards.  But before we wrap up the calendar round-ups for 2011, I’ve got a few more lovely designs to share with you!  If you missed any of the previous round-ups, you can check out Parts 1 – 5 right here!

First up, I love the limited edition 2011 letterpress calendar from Parrott Design Studio – featuring some of Sarah’s favorite vintage illustrations and calligraphy from Li at Fat Orange Cat Studio!

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Parrott-Design-Studio-Calendar

{parrott design studio}

This circus-theme calendar print from illustrator Judy Kaufmann would be perfect for a child’s bedroom!

{judy kaufmann}

The annual calendars from Hello Handmade are always incredibly romantic – and this year is no exception.  The calendars are divided by season, each featuring a quote from Mary Oliver along with Betsy Dunlap’s gorgeous calligraphy and Shanna Murray’s beautiful illustrations:

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{hello handmade}

I’m loving the bursts of color in this year’s desktop calendar from Delphine.  In addition to the brightly colored illustrations for each individual month, the back of each month is also printed with a solid ink color for an extra punch. The calendar comes with a magnetic bull clip so you can hang it on your fridge, magnetic bulletin board, or even a filing cabinet:

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{delphine}

For those of you from or living in the Pacific Northwest, this calendar from Mossière is the one for you.  Screen printed in four colors, the design features 13 flora and fauna specimens from the region, along with calligraphy from Kathryn Murray.  Bonus – it can be trimmed and framed as a square print at the end of the year!

{mossière}

The 2011 letterpress calendar from Lark Press has a different theme for each month of the year:

{lark press}

Albertine Press has two calendar formats this year, a wall calendar with beautiful illustrations and a star-shaped accordion calendar in an argyle pattern.  The accordion calendar is really cool – it can sit right on your desk or table, spinning around as the year progresses!

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{albertine press}

The 2011 calendar collaboration from Bird Dog Press and WonderBound Press features twelve amazing handmade woodcut illustrations of heritage breed farm animals – all designed to pay respect to homesteading. Each month includes a month of days, the phases of the moon, a heritage breed, an heirloom crop, a feedsack-inspired pattern and is handprinted on an antique letterpress on sustainable bamboo paper:

{available for pre-order here}

This colorful 2011 wall calendar from Perideau Designs has plenty of space for keeping track of upcoming appointments, events, and tasks:

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{perideau designs}

For bright color in a monthly format, check out this illustrated desktop calendar from Alex Winjen:

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{alex winjen}

In addition to other larger-format calendars featured earlier, both Pistachio Press and Blackbird Letterpress are releasing these cool tear-away calendars:

tear away letterpress 2011 calendar

{pistachio press}

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{blackbird letterpress}

{all images from their respective sources}

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Handlettering Cite

I just spent waaaay too much time Handlettering Cite, the blog of hand lettering artist Alex Savakis – which he fills with quotes from Ghandi to Mark Twain (and everyone in between) in his own lettering styles.  There are some serious gems, both in quotes and lettering styles, so it was hard to pick out just a couple of favorites:

famous quotes in calligraphy - helen keller famous quotes in calligraphy - ghandi

famous quotes in calligraphy - golda meir famous quotes in calligraphy - st augustine

Check out the rest (and maybe suggest a quote or two for Alex to consider) over at Handlettering Cite!

{image credits: alex savakis}

{happy weekend!}

Happy Halloween weekend everyone!  This is shaping up to be a bit of a crazy weekend, and not just because of Halloween… you may have heard of this tiny little rally happening in my neighborhood?  Should be interesting!  Aside from all the commotion, I’m looking forward to some Halloween fun with good friends and hopefully a few trick-or-treaters, but in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend:

…and in case you missed it, a round-up of this week’s posts:

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and a Happy Halloween, and I’ll see you all back here on Monday!

{image credits: bekah campbell via mary ruffle}

Holiday Calligraphy Stamp

Happy Monday everyone!  I hope you all had a good weekend!  I took this weekend off (well, mostly) for the first time in what feels like months – went out on a date with my husband, walked around our neighborhood, even managed to check out an exhibit at the Folger Library!  But even after a wonderful weekend, I could always use a little something pretty to brighten my Monday morning, and what could be prettier than these square calligraphy address stamps from Primele?

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Calligraphy-Holiday-Envelope-Address-Stamp

Calligraphy-Holiday-Envelope-Address-Stamp

Patricia from Primele said that she was inspired by the holiday season in Providence, RI, when she would walk past homes with lovely painted doors and beautiful wreaths on the way to her studio.  It’s still a teensy bit early for me to be thinking about holiday cards, but at least I know how I’ll be addressing the envelopes when I’m ready to send them out!  At 4 x 4 inches, these stamps will definitely make a statement on the back of any envelope.  Check them out right here!

{image credits: primele}

{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone!  This has been an incredibly full week for me; if you follow me on twitter you may know that I spent most of the weekend and the earlier part of this week up in New Jersey and New York, working on a project with my Dad and seeing some of my fellow bloggers in town for Bridal Market.  On Tuesday, I attended a taping of the Martha Show – and if you’ll allow me to geek out for a quick second, the bloggers in attendance got to take a photo with Martha and Darcy Miller at the end of the show (that’s me in the red sweater on the right)!

So much fun!  Now that I’m back at home and the weekend is almost here, I’m looking forward to relaxing and enjoying the cooler weather here in DC.  But in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend!

…and just in case you missed it, a quick round-up of this week’s posts:

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you all back here on Monday!

{image courtesy of martha stewart living omnimedia}