Almost everyone has found themselves in this awkward position and forgotten someone's birthday. To prevent this from happening again, you can make a note in your calendar or use a special application on your phone. However, such methods are not always convenient. A step-by-step master class will help you make a calendar as a birthday gift. Such an original reminder will serve as a great surprise for those who have many friends and relatives.
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Today I come to you with a small master class on creating a calendar. 
To make such a calendar we will need:
- base (I took photo cardboard with a density of 250 g/cm2, A4 format);
- scrap paper (I have Fleur Design, Craft Winter collection, Frost sheet);
- decorations (I also have Fleur cutting, lace, lace paper napkin, cork cutting, shabby ribbon, metal connector, brads, button, glass bottle with micro beads);
- a spring or rings if you don’t have a binder;
— printout of the calendar grid (I took it from the 1000moments blog, developed by Irina Fresh).
So, to begin with, we take our sheet for the base and crease it, I use a special creasing board, but you can do this with a regular ruler and a non-squeaking pen
We cut according to the following dimensions: 11cm - 11cm - 3cm - 3cm - 1.5cm.
And bend it like this:
Next, we apply glue to that piece, the size of which is 1.5 cm, and glue it to the opposite side, you should get a design like this.
Side view.
Now that our base is ready, let's start decorating it.
We cut out two rectangles measuring 20.7 * 10.7 cm from a sheet of scrap paper, taking into account that on each side we should have an indentation of 2-3 mm.
We select the rectangle that will be on the back side of the calendar and glue it to the base, I chose one with curls so that it would also be beautiful
Next, take a calendar grid, print it out in size 9*9 cm, cut it out and fold it in a pile, being careful that the months go in the correct order.
Now we decorate the front of our calendar.
Everything here is to your taste, you can use a sketch, completely different decorations, a different theme.
And we try on the calendar leaves so that the decorated part does not fit under them.
Then we glue the front part to the base and begin assembly.
Let's make holes for the spring (if you don't have a binder, you can hang the calendar on the rings).
First on the grid.
Then at the base.
We assemble our leaves onto the spring in this way.
Be careful when assembling so that the joint of the spring does not come out from the outside; we will hide it under the calendar.
And insert the spring into the holes on the base.
And we clamp it with a binder.
Turn the calendar over to the front side and admire the result
Using this principle, you can make a completely vertical flip-up calendar or the one you want, the most important thing is to be careful when creasing the base
Creative inspiration and good luck to everyone!
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Christmas Advent calendar for Barbie fans
One day I bought myself an Advent calendar. How can it be that I’ve been living in Germany for almost 9 years, where Catholic Christmas is my favorite holiday, and I still haven’t had an Advent calendar? This is the one I bought. Special for Barbie doll fans
I bought it and put it on the far shelf. Until the day it can be opened. (For information: in Germany these boxes could be found in Smyths Toys, Müller Drogeriemarkt and local Amazon)
What is an Advent calendar?.. You probably know, but I’ll remind you just in case. This is a special beautiful box with numbered cells. It can also look like a set of boxes/bags/Christmas stockings, where each package has its own number, usually from 1 to 24. And under each number there is a small gift, for the days of December until Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve is the 24th, and Catholic Christmas celebrated on December 25th).
The “filling” of Advent calendars is very different. With chocolate, candies, cosmetics/perfumery, toys... Or Barbie accessories, like mine. (The picture below is a promotional photo from Amazon.)
Giving Advent calendars was invented in Germany in the first half of the 19th century. To make it easier for children to count the days until Christmas. Well, for educational purposes. In general, a complete benefit
Perhaps that's enough descriptive points. Let's return to the topic of Advent calendars for Barbie doll lovers.
Although I couldn’t wait to check what was actually hiding behind the doors of my calendar... But I still put it away then, before December. So that everything is according to the rules, that is.
And then suddenly I came across last year’s Advent calendar on the local Amazon. The appearance of the calendar does not indicate in any way that it is from the past (that is, the numbers on the doors are not tied to the days of the week). Just 2020 edition. (Promotional photo from Amazon)
And it comes with a 50% discount, because the box is damaged, that is, it is not suitable for a gift. And oh well, I’m not here for the sake of the box. So I also bought this calendar. I decided: there will be a test.
Aaaand... The test was passed successfully (I opened the calendar in November). And he demanded a continuation. You know, there’s something in this: every morning, look for the cell with the next number and take out a gift from there.
It was interesting in what order the surprises were arranged. Initially, the doll is in a swimsuit. What will be number 2? Maybe skis? Or a baking tray? How will it fit together?..
Well, in my test calendar everything turned out to be logical and consistent: 1. Doll in a leotard 2. Ballet pointe shoes 3. Tutu 4. Crown 5. Skater skirt 6. Figure skates 7. Figure skating award 8. Pink dress 9. Robe veterinarian 10. Shoe 11. Stethoscope 12. Doctor's notepad 13. Dogs 14. Dog bowl 15. Baking tins 16. Chef's hat 17. Ready-made baked treats 18. Apron 19. Ski goggles 20. Ski suit 21. Ski boots 22. Ski poles 23. Ski helmet 24. Skis
On the eve of the opening of the last “door”. - Guardian, when will there finally be skiing? I'm already fully equipped for them!
Unfortunately, there was only one shoe from cell number 10 (the second was probably lost due to the packaging being damaged at the back).
Or maybe the lost ones were chewed up by the dogs and in this way the girls are simply being prepared for real life, in all its manifestations)
All cells are open:
And on December 1st, I began to examine the cells in another box. Which I wrote about at the very beginning of the topic.
Opening the doors of an Advent calendar is an exciting experience. I recommend!
At the same time, I’ll show you other Advent calendars for Barbie doll lovers. All photos below are from Amazon.
I think for 2017:
With accessories, without doll, 2016:
2013:
With cosmetics and various goodies:
And another one with cosmetics:
Would you like to receive an advent calendar as a gift?
Wall calendars and feng shui: khaodar — LiveJournal
About esotericism - about discovering cause-and-effect relationships where “they cannot exist because they can never exist.”
For example, 2012 has passed. We need to take stock... and find those to blame. So, wall calendar, out of order! Yes, I agree, wall calendars are, by and large, a relic of the past. They contain functionality that is no longer relevant. And yet it is a tradition. My mother provides them to me every new year. I must say that I am happy to hang them on the wall - in a visible place, and I use them: I look at the day of the week, holidays, and also make notes (work schedule, some other dates, TIC updates, in the end) ... So - to the esoteric.
Have you ever noticed that a picture with a waterfall (no matter how beautiful it is) evokes a certain ambivalent feeling? Haven’t you noticed that the beauty of the waterfall creates the impression of some slight regret about something that happened and has passed? Have you ever wondered why the image of a waterfall always gives off a strange sadness and never looks overly cheerful and optimistic?
I asked myself this question when I noticed that as soon as I mark some future event as a reminder on the calendar for 2012, it begins to happen according to the same scenario: a cheerful beginning, a stormy continuation and an unexpected, inglorious end. Just like a falling waterfall...
Then I remembered what water means in dreams. What does this have to do with dreams? It is assumed (we are now within the framework of the esoteric worldview, do not forget!) that there is a real world, but in it you can find certain signs, symbols, metaphors, which, knowing certain secrets (or simply having the ability), can be interpreted one way or another. So, water means a certain potential, something that can both give birth and kill; in a narrower sense, it is money: finances are organized into flows, they exist for this purpose, to flow somewhere or accumulate somewhere - both giving the opportunity to originate and deciding destinies. Therefore, a full-flowing river would be a very positive feng shui symbol: a flow of life-giving forces. Not so with a waterfall - it means a certain turning point, a crisis of energies, the passage of a certain point, beyond which control over energy is lost, chaos, atomization, decay, fall instantly sets in. Then hitting the stones (which, in turn, mean words)... That’s exactly how my whole year went. There were many undertakings (specifically, four large and important projects for me) that followed the same “waterfall scenario”, crashing on the rocks, taking away energy, and transferring my finances to a sharply lower level.
For this New Year, mommy provided a choice of two calendar posters: one, again with a waterfall, and this one:
I immediately rejected the waterfall (without even having formulated the above for myself), and the calendar, stuffed to the gills with positive symbols and flowing with bourgeois happiness, immediately and gratefully accepted.
Like all wall calendars (even the “cool” ones from designers
), they are absolutely always an example of vulgarity. But the genre demands it. This example of bad photoshop is no exception. But this is not the main thing. The main thing is monetary and blessed symbolism: pancakes (sun-gold-coins), the golden shine of the copper of the samovar (it bursts with prosperity), dairy products (grace in an alchemically pure, refined form), the sky, field, clouds... Special hopes are placed on for a strawberry (albeit based on pancake money ;-)).
Feng Shuino?
