A new year, a new calendar

Just like Brooke Hodge, a New York Times Magazine blogger, I too look forward to getting a new calendar each year.

I like to start the New Year with a new calendar. But this year — as I resolved, yet again, to get organized — I decided to adopt a multi-calendar approach. I embarked on a quest to find well-designed calendars for home, office and home office. At work I need something that I can glance at quickly to determine schedules and deadlines.

This Christmas my mother bought me the Abacus Calendar by Dana Heacock that I had been asking for, over and over again, since August. Heacock makes a new one each year and they are just beautiful. I also got a Heacock print to hang on my wall, so I consider myself double lucky to have such a chic mom. The colors are so bright and the subjects so Maine that I want to collect them all!

Each month is a different print that I put into a simple box frame. There's no room to write but that's ok, as I use my iCal on my mac at work to keep appointments and interviews scheduled.

My friend Heather sent me this adorable desk calendar with stationery for my birthday in October and it has come in quite handy. Again, no place to write but when I need to know a quick date all I have to do is glance to my right.