The 2021 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendars are ready to order!
Calendar A
Calendar B
You can click this link to order and you can order by clicking the special blue box up top.
If you have pets in the calendars and have not yet reviewed the calendars, please do so before placing your order. You will find the pages of each calendar in the links in the sidebar.
If you find a problem, corrections can still be made. But the calendar has to be changed BEFORE you place your order with Cafe Press. The calendars are printed on demand by Cafe Press, and there’s no way to stop an order once you place it.
If you find an issue:
- Notify us in this post
- Wait for us to let you know that it has been fixed and the page has been updated
- Review the calendar again to verify all is good
- Then place your order.
Calendars are $25 each. We planned to offer $5 off if you ordered both Calendar A and Calendar B, but Cafe Press doesn’t offer a way to do that. So all calendars are $25 each.
Anyone who orders 3 or more 2021 Pets of Balloon Juice calendars will get $5 off the “pet wallpaper” we are also offering this year. The wallpaper purchases won’t go through Cafe Press, so we’ll do one thing at a time here, and I will explain more about the wallpaper in another post. Just wanted to let you know that we’ll be doing something to thank folks who couldn’t get the original deal we hoped to offer.
Proceeds from the calendar go to our new pet rescue this year: Wet Mountain Animal Welfare.
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Questions? (aka What did I miss?)
Update on 12/4: I am closing comments on this post so I don’t miss any corrections that need to be made. Please add calendar comments and corrections to the most recent calendar post. I will have one a day for a few days in order to catch everyone.
Facebones
This looks great! Thank you so much for all your work on this.
I may have missed this before, but is there a particular charity this is supporting? Or is it supporting the web site? (Also worthy!) I just want to mention it when I share it on Facebook.
WaterGirl
@Facebones: We always support a pet charity with the calendars, and after years of supporting MARC, they are big enough that it’s time to support another organization where we can hopefully make a big difference.
I added the info up top, but I will include it here, too. Our new pet rescue is Wet Mountain Animal Rescue.
rikyrah
They look gorgeous. :)
jeffreyw
ordered the B-Ark version.?
Mary G
Are you going to sell the digital ones too?
SiubhanDuinne
Ordered one of each! Thanks to you and Beth for all your hard work, painstaking attention to detail, and sheer creativity.
Butch
Ordered two of calendar A. Thank you so much for all the hard work.
WaterGirl
@Mary G: The calendars cost $15 to print at Cafe Press, so we make $10 on each calendar, which goes directly to the pet rescue.
I think we could sell a high-resolution PDF of the cover and the 12 months for $10, but folks would have to be on the honor system to pay the $10 for every person they would share the .pdf with.
Are you thinking of something like that?
Di
This looks beautiful! Thanks to you and Beth for all your hard work. Being on a page with other cats is the only way Cashew, the only cat of only cats, would ever have tolerated their presence :-)
WaterGirl
@Mary G: For the “wallpaper” we are making 12 months of digital wallpaper, and $10 gets you wallpaper for each month, and each month you would get a link to the BJ pet wallpaper for that month.
Think something like this handsome picture of Badger, with a little calendar in the lower right-hand corner – that might say June, for instance, and would show the days of the month for June.
Everybody who paid the $10 for the year would get a link every month for digital wallpaper for a phone, a tablet, and a computer. You could use it as wallpaper or just look at an adorable badger whenever you wanted. :-)
That would really come to 24-36 images a year, because an image that works for portrait mode on a phone wouldn’t work for the dimensions on a tablet or computer.
Albatrossity is making the monthly wallpaper for us, and all proceeds will go to the pet rescue.
Nutmeg again
Those covers are snazzy. I’m gonna donate directly to the shelter since the oddly shaped package I got already suggests my kid got me a calendar (or, an LP–unlikely!).
WaterGirl
@Nutmeg again: Be sure and make a notation on your donation so they know that you are part of Balloon Juice.
geg6
Got mine. Yay!
CaseyL
Those are some fine-looking calendars!
Will order maybe today, definitely tomorrow.
Thanks again for your amazing work!
Fair Economist
Fantastic job on the calendar this year – great participation, a beautiful product, and available promptly! Thanks for your superb work.
evap
I just ordered two. Ouch on the shipping cost, since I need them by Dec 14.
Gin & Tonic
Both have cats on the cover. I detect a strong scent of bias.
HinTN
@WaterGirl:
And that’s why I’m happy to pay the full freight for my two calendars.
Nutmeg again
@WaterGirl: okey dokey
sab
@Gin & Tonic: I am a dog person, and I think those kittens are lovely and their photos are excellent.
Mary G
@WaterGirl: How do we pay the $10 for the digital?
BruceFromOhio
Hurray!! And they’ll arrive with plenty of time to divide up and re-ship to all the very good girls and very good boys on my list this year. Also, used PayPal to hopefully skirt the credit card fee.
@Gin & Tonic: Indeed. No parrots, ferrets or farm animals in this lot.
@Fair Economist: Heartily seconded!
Oklahomo
Got mine! The Big Black Cat is delighted to help a charity.
Frank Wilhoit
@WaterGirl:
The CafePress site has thumbnails to preview the individual pages, but they did not work for me, even with “Shields Down” in Brave. Might be worth testing when you get a moment.
There go two miscreants
@Nutmeg again: (or, an LP–unlikely!)
One Xmas I used an LP sleeve from the used record bargain bin to disguise a calendar. (I kind of miss the ingenuity I used to need to disguise obvious gifts.)
On-topic: Ordered a “B” for my grandkids.
WaterGirl
@Mary G: We are considering a couple of different ways, but we haven’t worked out all the details yet.
Are you thinking you’d like the .pdf version of the calendar digitally?
WaterGirl
@Frank Wilhoit: Oh, we are well aware. That’s why I put up the posts with all the individual pages earlier this week. The Cafe Press preview is awful.
The links to the earlier posts where you can see the individual pages are in the sidebar.
Mary G
@WaterGirl: Yes, because I look at them once or twice and they sit around gathering dust because I have nowhere to hang things.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: They are the same cats, little kitties in Calendar A and grown-up kitties in Calendar B.
Both from the same jackal who is a talented photographer.
We loved the idea of the same cats on the two calendars for a consistent theme.
WaterGirl
@BruceFromOhio: Hey, we have a duck next to a bunny in one of the months, and we have snakes. (shudder)
I think we have a nice array of pets this year. :-)
zhena gogolia
I ordered one for us and one for our cat-loving cleaner.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Nice!
Odie Hugh Manatee
In for a B calendar! Nice coincidence is that our cat Morty has his birthday in May, the same month that you have him and Stewie in. ?
Quiltingfool
I ordered both! Love that I can look at photos of everyone’s pets! Thanks for doing this!
Chris T.
As a Cat Person I am fine with this, but I have to ask: how come only cats are on the covers of both calendars?
(cats rule, dogs drool!)
Miss Bianca
@BruceFromOhio:
Next year!
BruceFromOhio
@WaterGirl: MrsFromOhio has a couple of bunny pictures for next year as well, when submissions re-open.
I’m just thrilled it got done before solstice, and looks tres fab.
J R in WV
@BruceFromOhio:
Look again elsewhere.
Both a parrot AND a pretty little snake!!
WaterGirl
@Chris T.:
They are the same cats, little kitties in Calendar A and grown-up kitties in Calendar B.
Both from the same jackal who is a talented photographer.
We loved the idea of the same cats on the two calendars for a consistent theme.
WaterGirl
@Odie Hugh Manatee: You don’t think that’s a coincidence, do you? :-)
WaterGirl
@BruceFromOhio: Two days later than we hoped, but I can live with that.
WaterGirl
@BruceFromOhio: I do think they are especially lovely this year.
Going to two calendars left fewer photos on a page, and more room for Beth to work her design magic. There’s only so much design you can do when you are trying to get 20 pets on a page.
We had so many entries this year, it would have been 30 to a page, and everyone would have been a postage stamp. I thought having two calendars worked out great.
Miss Bianca
@J R in WV: THat reminds me, did R-Jud and her daughter say they had found their corn snake? I remember seeing a while back that it had escaped, much to their distress.
cain
I bought 2 – one for me and one for my ex-wife!
heidi
just so you know, the link to our non profit is correct, but our name is Wet Mountain Animal Welfare. rescue won’t get you to our FB page…
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: Nothing more on the missing corn snake. But R-Jud’s 35-year-old sister had a stroke a week or two ago, and she hasn’t been back to Balloon Juice since then.
So we don’t know how it’s going on either front.
Ruckus
Just bought one of each. One for me and one for my buddy and his wife, both of whom are cat people.
TomatoQueen
One of each for me, so lovely to see all the goodest good girls and bois, and to help the folks on the Wet Mountain.
Kristine
Bought an ‘A.’ Looking forward to seeing Miss Gaby when June rolls around.
Sloane Ranger
Buying an A version calendar today to give to my cousin. The B option seems a bit cat heavy and he and his wife are very definitely dog people!
WaterGirl
I am closing comments on this post so I don’t miss any corrections that need to be made. Please add calendar comments and corrections to the most recent calendar post.