A Birthday Calendar

In the homes of my Dutch parents and relatives, Birthday Calendars were as common as silver spoons and old wooden shoes.  Hanging in the kitchen or bathroom, it was a perpetual calendar on which to note the birthdays of friends and family, as well as special anniversaries.  Here is my own version, with 12 original pastels and paintings marking each month. They really make an unusual and useful gift.

A Day Begins

A Day Begins

HFS140

5″ x 7″ notecard

quote on the back of card:  “And all the loveliest things there be
Come simply, so it seems to me.”   Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

Matted Archival Reproduction Available

A Green Flash Sort of Evening

A Green Flash Sort of Evening

HFS153

5″ x 7″ note card

quote on the back of card:  ” The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
Eden Philpotts

also available as an archival reproduction

A Once Feral Cat

A Once Feral Cat

HFS151

5″ x 7″ note card

quote on back of card:  “No one has measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”  Zelda Fitzgerald

also available as an archival reproduction

 

Amanuensis

Amanuensis

HFS147

5″ x 7″ note card

quote on back of card:  “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”  John Lennon

 

also available as an archival reproduction

Being Still

Being Still

HFS133

5×7 blank notecard

quote on back of card:  “Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”  Juvenal

 

Matted Archival Reproduction Available

Blackbirds

Blackbirds

HFS106

5×7 blank notecard

Matted Archival Reproduction Available

Cat on a Rainy Afternoon

Cat on a Rainy Afternoon

HFS165

5″ x 7″ blank notecard

quote on back of card: “What sort of philosophers are we who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats.”  Henry David Thoreau

 

matted archival reproduction available

Catmint

Catmint

HFS111

5×7 blank notecard

Matted Archival Reproduction Available

Confidants

“Confidants”

HFS 157

5″ x 7″ note card

quote on back of card: “The only gift is a portion of thyself.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

also available as an archival reproduction

 

Daybook

Daybook

HFS114

5×7 blank notecard

Matted Archival Reproduction Available

Desideratum

“Desideratum”

HFS158

5″ x 7″ note card

quote on back of card: “The universe if full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
Eden Philpotts

also available as an archival reproduction

 

Dominion

Dominion

HFS123

5×7 blank notecard

quote on back of card:  “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”  Colette

 

Matted Archival Reproduction Available

Entwined

Entwined

HFS105

5×7 blank notecard

Matted Archival Reproduction Available

Events of the Day

Events of the Day

WJ2

5×7 blank notecard

Framable archival reproduction available

Fallen Apple

Fallen Apple

HFS145

5×7 blank notecard

quote on back of card:  “One of the secrets to a happy life is continuous small treats.”  Iris Murdoch

 

Matted archival reproduction available