Calendars and diaries

Every year I choose to use a couple of calendars and diaries.
I love writing down what happens every day, things to do, lists and more lists!
That's how I am and I don't forget things in this way.
I have school work lists, reading lists (what I have read and what to read), stitching lists, mail lists (what I received and what must be written and sent),birthday lists, appointments lists,meetings lists,chores lists, bills lists etc etc
That's why I need lots of calendars and diaries!
For 2016
I put up the calendar Wonders of Hungary my friend Andrea brought me from her country this summer.

And that's the January page! I jot down important appointments and dates here.

I write my daily memoirs in the 2016 diary I was given as a gift from The Smile of the Child after our Luxembourg trip.

I keep notes and appointments in my Pygolampides  agenda in my bag. Local friends can find it for free in this link here. It has got lots of handicrafts and information inside.

This is the organiser I have at school. So very English.

I keep handicrafts notes (what I make every day) in this Mollie Makes craft calendar that was included in the December Mollie Makes issue that my friend Juliana sent me as a gift. It had lovely stickers with it and I use them in my diary.

And I also decided to print this free downloable Alisa Burke calendar and use it for more notes on my desk. I printed it on different colour for every month but it will also look lovely in white and you can colour the pages in.

Last but not least I am making a stitched calendar for 2016.
I joined in a SAL (=Stitch Along) and will be stitching this calendar every month along with hundreds of other stitchers around the world. It is free so if you like cross stitch join in!
You will find it on facebook but also on  this blog here. It is the Stitch Along The Joyful World by the Snowflower Diaries.

 I have already stained my white fabric and have already started stitching it. Barca always follows me while stitching!She seems to enjoy seeing me relaxing!

Are you keeping any kind of diaries or calendars?
Have a great 2016!

Calendars and diaries for the New Year!

I love keeping a diary. A handwritten one. And even my blog is like a diary to me! And I love looking at the calendar everyday.Not a virtual one but a real one on  my wall next to my desk. I am so lucky to have good friends who sent me two this year.
Here they are.
From dear Kim in England, a long time pen pal I met years ago in Kent.Thanks Kim!

From my sea glass friend Andria, a seaglass inspirational calendar too. You can find one in her shop.Thanks Andria.

My diary this year is this little book which is a pupil's diary with literature texts. I bought it cheaply at the book bazaar some months ago. It does not have dates so you can write in it whenever you feel like and you can also read interesting literature texts in it every time you write.

Last weekend hubby and I offered a free shadow puppet performance at a community project in a village outside Thessaloniki to benefit poor people. There was a giveaway bazaar there too.I got some things for free among them this vintage book which I also had as a kid. It shows the seasons and months. I loved finding it again.

Winter

January(because Santa comes on New Year's Eve in Greece!)

Anyway those of you who prefer vistual calendars I will show you two lovely ones.
This one is on my computer since yesterday by Geninne Zlatkis.

Or if you prefer this one by Evdokia in Haveakookie.

Enjoy the new year once again!

Calendars and diaries.

I have been keeping a diary for ages. When I was younger I used to read back my diaries and then as I found some things really silly I tore them apart and threw them away. But the last ten years or so I have been writing a diary regularly and keeping it. I am not going back to read it but I enjoy having them and being able to look up in them dates of events I have forgotten.
I also have calendars all around the house to see dates. I don't cross out days as they pass. I just look at them to find important dates like when is the next loan payment or a bill unfortunately or the next holiday fortunately!
Last Christmas I had received lots of calendars from friends and pen pals and sea glass friends and a Flower Fairies diary from my dear hubby.
This year I decided it was high time I used a perpetual diary that I had kept for ages. It was a gift given by Susanna, a cross stitch magazine, years ago and as it was so beautiful and contained cross stitch patterns I did not want to use it. But I think the economy made me to give in and use it instead of buying a new one. Anyway I am getting old why should I keep it unwritten for future generations?LOL!
So here it is....

 It has beautiful paintings.....

 and recipes(in Italian unfortunately)....

 and cross stitch patterns.....

And here are my calendars this year. Just two.
One from Andria my sea glass friend from the States....

 I love it!

And one with monthly cards with quilts from my dear pen pal Cathy from England who is a magnificent quilter.

To blog or to keep a diary?

I have always kept a diary, ever since I was a kid. It kept me organised so that I don't forget things to do or things I had done. Unfortunately I threw away most of my childhood and teenage diaries. Then I decided to keep a diary and having seen what Geninne Zlatkis does in her diaries I decided to add little colourful paintings or stickers and photos. It looked much better I admit but after a couple of months I couldn't do it any more. I wanted to start a blog ever since I found the resurrection fern blog and started following it and reading it every day.It inspired me. My dear man gave me a lovely diary as a New Year's Eve present this year. It is one with the flower fairies by Cicely Mary Barker. I love this artist. I have her complete anthology of her flower fairies and poems. I also have an address book sent to me by my dear friend Cathy in England. It is so nice to see all the details of the flowers and the fairies all in one. So what should I do now? Keep a beautiful diary handwritten and adorned by so many beautiful little flower fairies? Or blog which has so much potential in itself? Or do both?