Today I'm starting work on calendars for 2010. Every year I design three:
- Ellie's wall calendar
- Ellie's desk calendar
- Farm calendar
The big wall calendar is just that, BIG! It's 13.5" wide x 19" long, which means the pictures are about 13.5" side x 9.5" vertically. We sell some of those, most mostly it's a calendar for family. Mainly because it's so crazy expensive!
But you can get such great pictures on it, like the one for October 2009:
Isn't she cute? (Yeah, I know, I'm biased. but she IS.)
The desk calendars are pretty neat. They're kind of a tri-fold deal, and I keep a couple on top of my computer monitor - one of Ellie, and one with farm pictures.
Of course, there are lots of cute pictures on the Ellie desk calendar too, like this one from February 2009:
And I always have a hard time picking out which pictures to use for all the calendars, because there seem to be so many I like.
Here's one I used for March 2009 on the farm calendar.
Well, I need to quit looking at past calendars and get to working on the ones for this coming year! I need to get them done sooner this year so maybe we'll sell more. Ellie is at Shriner's Hospital this week for a check-up, and is likely to have spinal surgery in January, followed by at least two months of extensive therapy daily.
If this all works out, it will mean a trip to Vancouver, B.C., for the surgery, and then probably a couple of months in Orlando, Florida, for the therapy.
Wow. I'd better get busy. Now which pictures should I use. . .
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Will the surgery make her better able to walk? She’s such a beautiful little girl. Perfect for calendars.
Rehab in Orlando in the winter—hhmmm, not a bad gig.
Yes, the surgery is supposed to release some of the tension on her muscles caused by the Cerebral Palsy, and help avoid the “scissor gait” (where her legs won’t to cross when she’s trying to walk). So she should be able to walk better. But she’ll be using different muscles to walk then, so that creates the need for some intensive therapy at first, while she strengthens and learns to use those different muscles.
Yeah, Orlando in the winter beats Canada!!!