March Calendar

My goal is to have three blog posts a week... and I have been doing a pretty good job. Until the stomach bug hit our house anyways! I was off work sick a couple days last week and so everything was just a mess. We had a busy weekend so everything stayed a mess. On Monday instead of getting to work on a Mojo Monday challenge, I was doing laundry and cleaning. Tuesday was more laundry including rewashing clothes that came out with pink spots because some kind of reddish pink paper found its way into the washer and all over our clothes. Luckily, I added a bit of Oxiclean and rewashed the load and it came out nice and clean. So, all the cleaning and laundry left little time for papercrafting of blogging.

I shared with you my February calendar that was inspired by Linda, a featured guest on Mary Fish's blog. I had tweaked it a bit to make it my own. Now, I want to share my March calendar with you. It is an almost exact case from Linda's except I used Chocolate Chip card stock and she used Early Espresso. I think hers opened up but that Sizzix die is still on my wish list so mine does not open up. I had taken my Early Espresso card stock out and misplaced it. I thought I was out so decided to just use Chocolater Chip instead so I could finish it and get a few mailed out. Of coarse, when I cleaned my desk off I found my almost new pack of Early Espresso so at least I didn't have to order any!

February 2014 Calendar

I have been busy working on my 2014 calendar. I never got January done because I didn't come across the idea until the end of January. I follow quite a few blogs and one of them is Mary Fish's Stampin' Pretty. She featured Linda White one week and her project was unbelievable! It was a series of 5 x 3.5 calendars and they were designed to sit in a CD holder flipped open backwards. I knew right away that I had to do some of them. You can see Linda's guest post here.

I have done through May as of today and some I did exactly like hers, other I changed the colors up, and some I just did my own thing. February is one that I did my own thing... maybe you recognize the design from my Valentine nugget box I posted last week. I basically took the same design and colors and used it for my calendar. I am making 5 sets of these... one for my, my mother-in-law, and one of my aunts (really my husband's aunt but I still claim her as mine too). My girls decided they wanted one of their own too so I am 'prepping' each month for them and then they are assembling it themselves.

I am looking forward to sharing the rest with you as I get them done and ready to post.

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Be sure to check back this week as I have a few more Valentine projects to share.

Shelly