There's only one fashion calendar that means anything to me, and that's the Margaret Howell calendar. This year's is called Sea & Coastline and contains a selection of work by British printmakers including Charles Bartlett and David Gentleman. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to greet the new year armed with the right stationery. A proper calendar and a proper diary. Electronic versions might be quick and easy but where's the beauty? To me the transition from one year to the next, involves an afternoon spent scribbling down friend's birthdays and wistfully reflecting on the past twelve months, mulled wine in hand. And, so what if the Margaret Howell calendar remains on the January page for the entire year, I can sleep at night safe in the knowledge that I'll still know what day it is, even if my computer has a seizure.
Do you still buy a calendar or a paper diary?
Paper for me, even though I do love computers for all their wondrous talents. As you said "where's the beauty?". I love choosing my annual date keeper, and I always look for a beautiful photo or drawing, like this one.
ReplyDeleteI do both filofax and iphone calendar - feel I need all options to be covered xx
ReplyDeleteLovely artwork. I do run a family calender, and am also thinking of going back to the good old filofax, electronics crash, get stolen, run out of charge...
ReplyDeleteI'm just finishing a lovely, red, 18-month Moleskine diary which I really enjoyed using. I made the decision to go back to my filofax and bought next year's insert for it in October. I hope I've made the right choice. I'm still a writing and paper girl despite the occasional flirtation with the calendar on my ipad.
ReplyDeleteA wall calendar and a Moleskine diary for me. For years, I carried a Mulberry agenda along - too heavy.
ReplyDeleteHere give a nice and latest fashion calendar, this is Margaret Howell calendar.That's a different and new pattern of calendar. I love this nice photo.
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Yes, love paper diaries and calendars. It's a good thing, as I'd never trust myself to figure out the electronic kind. Plus I like to look back and see where I've been and with who!
ReplyDeleteStunning! Yep, I have to have a calendar...actually I have a couple around the house. I have an old filofax thing too which I just update each year. I don't do electronic diaries. xx
ReplyDeleteI don't trust the electronic, plus I trust even less sharing my schedule with my workplace -- too much encroachment of that behemoth into my personal time as it is. I use a small dayplanner (by Quo Vadis) that fits neatly in my bag -- it has an Hermes-orange cover that both makes me happy and is easy to spot in the depths of the purse.
ReplyDeleteI have just emailed that over to my OH with a hint (order) that if he really loved and appreciated me he would add this to my stocking. Fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteNothing can replace my leather bound diary.....it's like leather gloves....a "must have".
ReplyDeleteWarm regards
I have a paper calendar. But gone are the days of the paper diary. Xxxx
ReplyDelete100% digital here :).
ReplyDeleteIt's not that I shun beauty in my life, but that I crave simplicity above all. The digital options help me keep clutter under control.
I've several wall and desk calendars scattered throughout my home and office. I've been carrying a Filofax of some type for more than a decade now... I picked up a lovely pink ostrich mini a few months ago and love looking through it so much more than I would do flipping from screen to screen on a smart phone or Blackberry!
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