Beauty and practicality: do it yourself perpetual calendar

The calendar often located on the desktop, because it takes up little space, is not striking and is at hand. Despite the external simplicity, using it you can make the workplace more comfortable. The best solution combining beauty and practicality is the perpetual calendar. It’s not difficult to make it yourself, but it will take patience and a little time.

Benefits of a reusable calendar

Compared to traditional paper calendars, the eternal analogue has several advantages:

1. Shows the exact date and day of the week in any year, can be used until you get bored.
2. It looks more attractive.
3. Made of more durable materials, durable.

Family option

It is very convenient when you can leave memos for family members on a certain date. You can get rid of notes scattered around the house with instructions using a homemade calendar. In this option, a correctly made workpiece is important. Perpetual calendar manufactured as follows:

1. A template is made on the computer with the written dates and days of the week. Numbering should go from left to right. The first line is 1-7, the second is 8-14 and so on until the 31st.
2. It is printed on sheets of the A3 format, it is laminated.
3. Cuts vertically. You should get columns with dates 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, etc. Days of the week are also cut out.
4. On the back of the strips, magnets are glued to the double-sided tape. Optimal use of flexible.
5. Strips with numbers and days of the week are mounted on magnets to the refrigerator in accordance with the current date.

It is convenient to attach notes to magnets to such a calendar. You can write tasks directly on it using a washable marker.

Compact and beautiful

A desk calendar can be made from different materials, depending on personal preferences. The easiest option is to buy wooden blanks and arrange them at your own discretion or mold them from salt dough. This option consists of several elements:

1. Stand. It can be with a “pocket” for pens and pencils.
2. Two dice. On their planes, numbers are depicted. The unit and deuce must be in duplicate.
3. Three bars on which the names of the months are applied.

The most popular design of a wooden surface in the decoupage technique is the transfer of the finished picture.

DIY perpetual calendar

You can make a wooden version yourself, without buying blanks. To do this, you must:

1. A small board.
2. Whetstones of different sizes (for cubes and dice with months).
3. Jigsaw.
4. Paint.
5. Lacquer.
6. Glue.
7. Tracing paper.
8. Napkin with a pattern.

A stand, a vertical wall, sides for cubes and a "pocket" are cut out from the board. The parts stick together, creating a common foundation. After the glue dries, they can be painted.

The napkin is divided into layers and a pattern is cut out of it. It is applied to a wooden surface, after which it is varnished.

The tracing paper prints the numbers and names of the months, it is desirable that the tone matches the main picture. Carefully cut and glued onto cubes and cubes.

Do it yourself wooden perpetual calendar made and decorated, it will look beautiful in any setting. It can be made of any size and shape, unlike the store counterpart. A home-made version takes more time to manufacture, but this is an absolutely unique product.

Instead of printing on tracing paper, you can draw a picture right on the tree. Acrylic paints are well suited for this. Burning is an equally original way of decorating.

You can make an eternal calendar with papier-mâché or salt dough with your own hands. When working with the dough, you should pay attention to the drying step so that the product does not crack. It can be decorated with a bas-relief, painted and varnished. High-quality work made from salt dough is not inferior in beauty to a wooden product.

A desk calendar not only benefits and adorns the interior, it can become a stylish and practical gift. Using different images for the basics makes it possible to make a thing interesting for everyone, you just need to choose the right picture. A homemade gift brings joy and is of particular value. Giving people a good mood is as easy as making an eternal calendar with your own hands.