New Year...New Calendar(s)

Happy New Year! I wish you all a very healthy, happy 2009! Today is also my birthday, so January 1st brings me not only a fresh start to a new year, but also marks another year I've been alive on this planet. I saw my oncologist earlier this week for my three-month check up, and I was pleased to get a clean bill of health. So, I definitely got my Christmas and birthday wishes this year--my life! I'm looking forward to a cancer-free, far-fewer-doctor-visits year!

Many of my friends and family refer to me as the Calendar Queen. I've been making calendars for gifts now for about 12 years. The most I'd ever done in the past was 17, and there were three different versions. This year I matched my record of making 17, but I counted six different versions I made. Unfortunately two I gave away before I was able to snap pictures (though you can see one on the A Muse site on this post), but this is a picture of the other four I made. The orange and black one in the middle I made at a class at Impress in October; the one on the left with the four seasons images I made as a thank you for my hair stylist, who gave me free hair care during my cancer treatments; the one on the left with the pink and green paper is my standard calendar I gave to my family and friends; the small black and white polka dot book at the bottom I made for a coworker, who was very supportive throughout my illness last year and also contributed to the A Muse calendar project.

I will post individual pictures of each of the January calendar pages for the different versions over the next few days. Thanks for looking!