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
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
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
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
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
Beach Pastimes
WJ1
5×7 blank notecard
Framable archival reproduction available
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
HFS106
5×7 blank notecard
Matted Archival Reproduction Available
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
HFS111
5×7 blank notecard
Matted Archival Reproduction Available
“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
HFS114
5×7 blank notecard
Matted Archival Reproduction Available
“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
HFS123
5×7 blank notecard
quote on back of card: “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” Colette
Matted Archival Reproduction Available
Entwined
HFS105
5×7 blank notecard
Matted Archival Reproduction Available
Events of the Day
WJ2
5×7 blank notecard
Framable archival reproduction available