Product Description

Mary Engelbreit is commonly referred to as "The Queen of Everything." For 2010, let Mary Engelbreit's Your Home Is Your Canvas 2010 Desk Calendar be an inspiration and help make your days the "breit"est they can be.

Some artists use a canvas to create masterpieces, but others use their home as their medium for displaying their artistic talent. Mary Engelbreit's Your Home Is Your Canvas 2010 Desk Calendar is a collection of Mary's best-loved home images, which are guaranteed to bring about feelings of warmth, comfort, and creativity. This calendar offers planning space and weekly calendar grids to keep busy family schedules organized. Flip to the back, and you'll find space for recording birthdays and anniversaries, names and numbers, babysitters, children's friends, services, restaurants, notes, and emergency contacts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2797 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Calendar
• 120 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780740781223
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Mary Engelbreit's aphorisms and artwork appear on millions of greeting cards. Her popularity continues to grow due to the success of her books, calendars, home decor, stationery, and crafting products, along with Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine. She resides in St. Louis, MO.

Customer Reviews

Not Enough Room !
Not enough room to write down needed information. Weekend 'space' for appointments might be ONE inch square for each day, and the rest of the week is far smaller than 3 years ago. Will need to purchase a less cheerful desk calendar again this year (sigh...). I need a whole page separated equally into 7 days. Illustrations are as charming as ever. Will miss that.

Not functional
Despite my review of the 2009 weekly calendar, I did purchase it. Now after using it I can say, yes, the illustrations and "look" of the calendar are beautiful, surpassing many other calendars out there, but it is not functional enough for my purposes. Again, the 2010 calendar does not have the entire month-at-a-glance pages at the beginning. They were great for filling in appointments for the month and being able to see the entire month, rather than only a "week" view. I have a feeling that was discontinued with hopes customers would buy the monthly calendar as well as the weekly one. I think it's a shameful way to bilk loyal customers out of more of their hard-earned dollars.

As for the weekly sections, the 2010 is divided into seven blocks, the weekend blocks are tiny, and there is absolutely no room in the "notes" block. When I think how great the layout of the 2008 and 2007 calendars were, with each day laid out horizontally (and equally measured) and the "notes" section running vertical the entire length of the page, and of course the entire month pages, it's clear how badly the calendars are designed now.

I took a look at this calendar at my Barnes & Noble store and decided to make a break from ME until the calendar is redesigned. Instead I bought Linda Nelson Stocks 2010 Folk Art Calendar - it DOES have full month views at the beginning, and the horizontal week layout. It works for me and doesn't have so many unnecessary pages in the back. It lacks the full page list of holidays (but they are filled in in the monthly views) and I do like the ME illustrations better.

I am making the break from ME calendar, too
I have been frustrated/disappointed for the past several years, ever since ME changed the format on the inside pages from some vertical columns for each day, to a horizontal format. With the vertical columns, there was one line for almost every hour of the day, and the whole thing was perfect. I "made do" with the new/different format for a couple years, always hoping enough of the reviews from people who didn't like it, would make the publisher (or whoever) change it back. That never happened. Last year I bought a ME calendar but then found a Marjolein Bastin engagement book I liked better, so I gave the ME calendar to my mom. Since the format still has not changed and is, if anything, worse, this year I am following the advice of another reviewer and ordering the Linda Nelson Stocks 2010 Folk Art desk calendar/engagement book, sight unseen. I need a 2010 calendar and I need it now! Sure hope the people at ME get the message soon and switch back to the "old" format. I sure loved everything else about ME's work.