It's the pretty blogs FIRST BIRTHDAY and it is the Elephantshoe Stationery Studios FIRST PRETTY BLOG DIY POST, two great reasons to celebrate this week! With gift giving and receiving being a fundamental part of sharing and caring for our loved ones on their Birthday, we have decided to design a little something for you to download and print to use in your home. Or, pass on the love by giving our Birthday Calendar to someone you hold dear.

This perpetual calendar is designed without specific days associated with the the dates so that you can use it year after year to document and remember those important days.

Thank you to the LEGENDS at Blackframe photography for photographing our Free Printable today. They are beyond talented, visit their blog to have a look at some of the great work that they do.

DIRECTIONS

Please print pgs 2 - 7 of this document onto a very thick paper stock. (Ivory colour preferable). Print on A4 for a small calendar or A3 for a larger one.

Cut out the calendar pages using the crop marks as a guide.

BINDING OPTIONS

A4 calendar, place all 12 pages under the clip of a clipboard and mount the clipboard on your kitchen or office wall.

A3 calendar, either hold the pages together with a bulldog clip or cut a small slit at the top of each page and bind with a linen ribbon or hessian string.

Happy Printing and Gift giving!

love Sam

from the "Elephant factory"

{DOWNLOAD THE PRINTABLE BIRTHDAY CALENDAR HERE}

We recently shared this colour board on the Durban Central blog and we've posted it up here to inspire any brides that are still in the throws of thinking of a colour palette for their wedding. WE WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE LOVE LOVE to design a stationery range around it.

References on this board are from the following places on the web.

GREY FABRIC PATTERN - www.3rings.designerpages.com

TAUPE THROW & LIGHT - www.apartmenttherapy.com

TAUPE DRESS - www.enjoyeventscoblog.com

GREY WOOL - www.yarn.com

WORKSPACE - www.johanna-vintage.blogspot.com

EARL GREY MACAROONS - www.tastespotting.com

CHARCOAL STICKS - www.pinterest.com

FRENCH CHAIRS - www.aperfectgray.com

MIXED GREY WOOL - www.newov.com

GREY LACE LASER CUT HEELS - www.piperlime.gap.com