Celebrate the New Year! Free 2012 Printable Calendar.

2012 begins as a New Year this Sunday! I plan to ring in the New Year by celebrating New Year's Eve with my boyfriend as his band, Grass Monkey, plays at Awful Arthur's in downtown Roanoke, VA. And while I am "slightly" prepared to celebrate, I'm not at all prepared in other ways. So to help get me there I started by doing something very basic - I printed out a 2012 calendar to keep me on track. 

My Owl Barn Blog has a free 2012 printable calendar you can download and print. Not only does the calendar feature lovely illustrations of owls by a number of artists, but you can customize your calendar by choosing which owl you'd like for each particular month. The entire calendar only uses three pages of paper to save on ink, with each month measuring about a quarter page.

Keep the calendar as three full size sheets, punch with a hole punch and insert into a binder for work or school. Alternately, print your calendar on cardstock and frame the 8.5"x11" pages in separate pages side by side in your kitchen or office.

Or you can do like I did and cut out each month and clip or staple them together. Or combine the months with with binder rings through hole punches in the tops of each month. Have fun creating your own calendar for 2012! You can find the free download here.

Alternately, you may be interested in buying some handmade calendars from other talented artists. You can find a small selection of 2012 illustrated calendars for sale as featured on my blog.

How will you be ringing in the New Year?