Calendar Challenge and Happy New Year!

I've been admiring the art calendar pages posted by fellow-blogger, Jill, at Third Age Musings, and decided I would take the challenge to do a calendar this year.  Instructions for joining are posted at Jill's site.

At left is my first attempt, which has now been bound, using the "Bind-it" machine that I splurged on last year.  There are pre-gessoed pages for the rest of the months of 2011.  This month's background was painted with a mixture of acrylic paint and gesso.  Then I punched squares out of patterned papers and pasted them in, and then decorated the page with more paint and rubber stamps.  I plan to use the space on the left margin to state my "Priorities" for the month of January.  Instead of making the usual resolutions to get healthy, etc. this year, I made just one resolution.  That is to set priorities each month in the areas of my life that need attention.  I think I can keep that one for more than one month!  The calendar pages will help me remember, because I will be looking at it every day when I write or draw something each day.

Here's to a new start on another wonderful year for you and for me!!