Anything but Christmas!

 Thanks for all your lovely comments last week. It has been a busy time with our school panto. Dad went to the hospital on Wednesday, but they decided not to operate as they think the pain is more likely being caused by a trapped nerve than by his hip, so they gave him his breakfast and sent him home! He is in good spirits and has an appointment for a CT scan to see if they can find the exact problem.
We have had a great day today, celebrating Steve's Dad's 93rd birthday. We were joined by the youngest member of the family, young Elliott, who is just 7 weeks old which meant there were four generations present. here are the oldest and youngest together.

On to my make for this weekend. The theme at Allsorts is 'anything but Christmas'. I am still making Christmas cards, but I needed a few calendars too, and wanted to experiment with an idea I'd had. I've made a few easel card style calendars and have seen ideas for post it note holders, but wanted to combine the two and still leave space for a picture. Here is my attempt at doing this - not perfect by any means, but I am quite pleased with it!

The scene was created using ink dusters, Inkylicious stamps, a white gel pen and Memento inks in dandelion yellow, lilac posies and grape jelly. The nesties are the spellbinders timeless rectangles using the largest one. I used a calendar tab from a set I won on Sarn's Rudolf day challenge.
I  would have liked to add something just above the calendar, but then it would have been really hard to post, so I left it as it is.
Thanks for looking and for all your lovely comments. I hope I will get round to visiting you all over the coming week now panto is over and I will be home by 5.30, rather than 8.30!