013. the calendar is finished!!

+ an extra one because I can :)

Nov 23, 2023

hello peeps!!

I have a cold, and I’m also too days late at posting this. But I’m not saying it is bad. Well, the cold is not ideal, but hey, I can’t change that right now.

What I can do is write, because I made a promise with myself, and in some way, with you, that I’d post every week. Be it Tuesday or Thursday, at least it’s the same week and I did not want to allow myself another skip. I enjoy this too much to let my laziness convince me that I don’t.

Yesterday I was planning on writing, I wanted to show the finished calendar and, well, finished the calendar instead, but ended up not having enough time to write about it.

I had a bit of a crisis the other day. Living somewhere else for a while somehow puts everything upside down and makes you think about what you normally don’t think about, while putting things into perspective.

I had a realization about a pattern of friendships in my life to come and go seemingly fast due to uncontrollable circumstances. I also, for the first time, felt like I was actually behind in life. I didn’t really care until then, but being here, I couldn’t help but compare myself and my life to those of others.

NOOO!! Comparison is the thief of joy!!

Well, yes, and I guess that’s what brought me back to my senses. But that moment was necessary, crying was necessary to be able to feel better. Crying about it doesn’t make it true, and it doesn’t make it the worst thing ever. It makes the feelings valid, and it allows for happier feelings after.

Thinking about it now, without all the feels, I realize that while I may be technically behind with some things, maybe it’s also a fear of going forward too quickly. My circumstances and choices have forced me to have a different kind of late teens and early twenties so far. While people my age are thinking about going abroad and making enough money to go live adventures, I partially did that so early that my focus now is on making a living. Without having graduated yet, and without having a clear view of what I’ll do in the future.

So my fears lay in putting a lot of effort into making a living from something I later don’t enjoy but am tied to. I am in a phase in life characterized by exploring. I know what I enjoy, but don’t know how to shape it yet, and that requires exploration. What if “settling” for making a living shortcuts this wonderful and necessary phase?

I’ll figure it out. Maybe that’s the answer.

Anyway:

CALENDARS!!!

Yes, that “s” is right where it should be, calendars in plural. Because I decided to create not one, but two designs! And, not to get ahead of myself, but I may design one more.

You already know the structure of the first one. Simple and with illustrated chairs with things. Well, it’s finished. November and December are finished.

Emily Hubbard

suggested a tree for November. I tried and failed miserably at drawing a decent tree, so a lamp it is.

Here are all the months!!

I may still change the colours, maybe leaving the colours only for the illustrations and the rest in black, or that but every month the same colour. What do you think?

3; could be another colour instead of red, probably blue

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The initial idea was for the calendar to be just “decorative” (?) but I decided to create a version for organisation too, with spaces to write on. I’m not sure which version I like more.

It’s pretty difficult to imagine how it’ll look like, so I took a calendar and went outside to take some pictures and make mock-ups and… here are the results:

I’ll order one for myself through Gelato and hope to put it up for sale on my shop within a week, if anyone wants a copy too.

Does travelling or moving places make you realize things?
Which colour combination is your favourite?
And which calendar version do you like the best? With spaces for writing or without?