A calendar

A calendar is important in the way that the fabric on your couch pillow is important, creating a feeling in your living room, catching a visitors eye, warming them a little. It is important in the way that the small white tea cup is special because it comes from nana. When you use it or look at it, you remember her vegetable garden and wise, big smile.

A calendar helps you visualize time even if you're not much of a planner (like me). December brings winter and all things chilly outside and warm inside. We have ideas of seasons and months and having time on your wall, in the form of a calendar, is a celebration of these things. Circle the 28th because it's your daughter's first birthday. You could draw in the squares of September because years ago somewhere around those weeks you met a handsome man in the beverage aisle of a grocery store. What if March is a hard month? Maybe the yellow wellies drawn above the numbered days will make you feel okay at least once that dark month.

This calendar, this one here is the one.

The folks over at Redbird Studio have such delightful, simple treasures. They make the loveliest little wallets, a simple thing about the size of a credit card (but can hold many) with a simple fold over top that's closed by a single clasp. They make hats, bags, stationary, books, pins, clothes and now their yearly hand silk-screened calendar.

There are only 30. There will only be 30 of these in the whole world. Look at those lemons!

If you don't live in Portland Oregon, you can give them a call and order one for yourself or a loved one, http://redbirdstudio.biz/. If you do live in Portland visit them at 2927 ne Alberta Street.

*Thank you Redbird Studio for letting little hand knits use your photo.*