Framed Calendar Prints | DIY

This post is dedicated to and made possible by JoAnn Fabrics...may that lovely store rest in peace.  I was sad to see it go because it was my go-to store for random fabrics I needed for lampshades or costumes or anything like that, not to mention ribbon, trim, foam...so many, many crafting things that I could just run into a physical store and grab quick.

It's also a post about something I want to start doing more often - taking an old post I wrote way back when and bringing it to 2026.  This old post hearkens from way back in 2010 and is all about framed art - read it in its entirety here.  Long story short, I needed to fill some frames with something and so I filled them with pages from a calendar.  The photos in that old post need to stay in the past but the idea is still a goodie and so oops, I did it again - this time with pages from a 2025 calendar I snagged at JoAnn's during their last week open, when everything was super duper clearanced.  

It wasn't my intention to buy a calendar for $2 but when I spotted it, I knew the perfect place for some of the pretty prints inside - our newly dotted powder room.

Hand-Painted, Scattered Dot Walls | DIY

Our little half bath..it's come a long, long way.  

It's a tiny little thing so getting pictures isn't the easiest of things but all you need is a small slice of perspective to see how it's changed.

This is a blurry shot taken right after we moved in:

This room was low on the priority list but we did manage to get a few things done like rip the outdated wallpaper down and prime the walls quick.  I also painted the countertop to look like marble on a whim (see how here...it stayed looking like the day it was painted until the day it was replaced years later!)  Here's an old post with more deets.

One Year Later

I'm just going to slide right on in here like it hasn't been a whole year since I typed out some words in a post and hit publish...

Aaand so, I'll just cut to the chase.

We had another baby this past March.  Theo Francis - swallowing the family weight record by a whole pound and a half at 9 lbs. 3 oz.