My calendars have all been updated for 2022 and this is a post I originally wrote for my Patreon back in 2019 that explains some of the process.
I have 12 calendar designs now so it’s a bit of a job updating them every year – but worth it as most are still quite popular and I sell a few tea towels, postcards and other things throughout the year. The process begins by editing a spreadsheet to update the calendar data and triple checking it’s correct. Then I use a PDF of that to copy the dates into each calendar file and resize/recolour to fit. Many of my calendars have similar layouts so it’s not too tedious.
I changed a couple of the designs for 2020 – this one gives my gingerbread man his usual colours back and I put the date in a heart. Still not sure why it was ever yellow!
I also gave Pluto its own month since we know what it looks like now. No one has probably noticed that I ordered these by their distance from the Sun so the rocket is in between Earth and Mars and there’s a comet for the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. I moved the shooting star there instead as they are kind of the same thing and the star is more colourful. Educational!
I also have to move the dates into the separate mug artwork, though I’ve stopped doing this for older designs as they haven’t been selling recently. Probably because no one wants a permanent reminder of these years! Then I upload everything to my print-on-demand partners. For some of these I can just swap in the new artwork, while others don’t allow this so I have to create new products and delete the old ones.
You can buy my 2022 calendars now from the following sites, who all ship worldwide. Some of the older designs are no longer being uploaded to all sites but I can add them if you ask.
- Spoonflower (USA & Germany) – cut and sew tea towel fabric & finished tea towels
- Redbubble (uses regional printers worldwide) – art prints, postcards, cards, notebooks, stickers, magnets & mugs
- Society6 (USA) – art prints, cards & mugs
- Zazzle (uses regional printers worldwide) – postcards
