“Stand Up Straight” 2010 calendar from Athertonlin’s Etsy shop.

Perhaps you remember last year when I kind of panicked about my calendar rut.  It’s come again– to Moleskine or not to Moleskine for my day planner, to head back to the Nikki McClure calendar I’ve sort of missed even though I loved the art I had this year or break out into something new?  Plus, I’m trying to decide if I want to keep my work day planner and my personal day planner seperate.  Yes, even when I’m not working or in school full time I keep a planner– I find it oddly peaceful and it will be useful for my future biographers.

So hard.

Anyway, I’m starting to find some really intriguing things pop up on Etsy.  I like the pick your own images calendar that Bomobob offers but am also intrigued by the “A Year at the Fair” calendar in the same shop.  Plus, can I really pick 12 images?  Clearly just picking one aesthetic for a whole year is too much for me.  Similarly, I like UrbanPinkPhotography’s 2010 Carnival Calendar, which is small enough to put up on my office bulletin board. Oh the possibilities.

For my full sized, on-the-art-wall calendar I’m 90% sure I’ll go with “Stand Up Straight” from Athertonlin’s Etsy shop (picture at top of this post).  I like the idea of a story unfolding over the course of 12 months– talk about taking the calendar to a whole new level of interesting.

Some others I like: this hand rest calendar (photo above), the Dutch Door Press wall calendar, and Caitlin Keegan’s circular wall calendar.  And maybe a running-themed day planner would keep me motivated?

Do any of you obsess about day planners and calendars?  It’s like buying 12 little art pieces and really you can’t make that decision lightly– esp since you have to live with it for a whole year.  Although I guess each page you just have to live with for a month.  Clearly, I continue to over-think this.