Good morning!
Presenting Beth’s design for 2022 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar B.
Please check the links in the sidebar to see which calendar and which month(s) your pets are in.
The preview is below!
Please check for your pets and make sure that all your pets are there, that the names are right, that we have the right name with the right pet, and that there’s a heart if there should be one, and no heart if there shouldn’t be one.
Right click on each image to open in a new tab, and then use Ctrl+ to enlarge so you can read everything. Then close that tab and go back to the post.
YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO CHECK BEFORE YOU BUY, BECAUSE ONCE YOU HAVE PLACED THE ORDER, WE CAN’T FIX ANY ISSUES YOU FIND LATER. Well, we can fix them even then, but then you’d have to buy another calendar in order to get the fixed version.
These are really low-resolution for posting on the blog, but the calendar itself is very high resolution.
Cover: (we haven’t decided on the Calendar B cover yet)
January:
February:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
All feedback on the calendar is welcome!
We hope/plan to have Calendar A available for review tomorrow.
Still aiming for December 1 as the first date to order calendars.
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The next post is a report on Wet Mountain Animal Welfare and how they have put our calendar money and donations to good use.
WaterGirl
Key points from the instructions:
All feedback on the calendar is welcome!
katdip
Looks great, thanks for doing all this work!
Joy in FL
My two magnificent felines are perfectly presented in the company of all the BJ pets. These calendars are going to be a good.
sab
Looks great. The quality of flip phone cameras sure has gone down a lot in the last decade. I really should upgrade.
zhena gogolia
Looks beautiful!
hueyplong
Spotted the King in April where he is supposed to be. So everything OK here.
SiubhanDuinne
The five pictures I submitted of my friend’s five cats are all accurately labelled. Thank you so much for the painstaking care you and Beth put into the calendar.
I think my friend will be overjoyed and very surprised to see her babies as part of the BJ calendar! Can’t wait to order, receive, gift-wrap, and hand it to her during Christmas week!
Sure Lurkalot
No pets of my own to check but all of yours to ooh and ah over. Looks great!
pat
testing.. The last two times I tried to comment, it did not go through.
bemused senior
Sgt. Pepper is correct in November!
pat
And there is the test, so let’s try again.
I thought we had decided on Pablo in the Shoe Box, but I love him all curled up on the bed (January) so do not change!
Thanks, will be ordering Calendar B!
jeffreyw
Ma’am! All present and correct! Ma’am!
Josie
Duncan looks great in July. Thanks for the artistry and the hard work.
WaterGirl
@pat: Yes, I love Pablo in the shoebox! But Pablo curled up on the bed worked better for the calendar design. Glad you approve!
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: We have renamed September to JefferyW! :-)
If you want yours more spread out, you have to stop submitting gorgeous fall photos of your pets.
grandmaBear
All good!
MazeDancer
So much cuteness! And it is warms the soul to see so many loved pets.
Great job, Beth! Great job, WaterGirl!
PaulWartenberg
I love how Ocean is looking up at Maddie.
Ocean and Mal are good to go!
Jean
My pets are in calendar A, but these for calendar B look great!
pat
@WaterGirl:
Oh absolutely. I see there are other cats in boxes and he really shows up on that page!
WaterGirl
@pat:
Narrator: of course there are cats in boxes.
pat
@WaterGirl:
Hey, new shoes for me, new box for Pablo. Win win.
Ksmiami
Looks great- I’ll order 3
realbtl
Jada seems to be missing unless my old eyes are failing me.
WaterGirl
@realbtl: This is Calendar B. Jada is in Calendar A. :-)
We hope to have Calendar A up for review sometime tomorrow.
Kalakal
looks good to me! Thank you!
Dan B
It’s interesting that BaBoo and Wobbles photos are from shortly after they came here. BaBoo was just six months old and tiny. The layout looks great!
And so do the pets.
Nutmeg again
So much sweetness on the page—and, a credit to the community to see so many happy oldies there.
silvery
February – Top R corner, Honey is missing a heart. Thanks for all your work, I’m looking forward to buying calendars again!
ruemara
Calendar looks great! The names are spelt correctly.
WaterGirl
@silvery: Got it!
debbie
Impressive layouts! Photo-filled pages are tough to make look good. Pages hold together, but those mwah little faces don’t get lost in the overall look.
WaterGirl
@debbie: We made a few layout changes last night to Jan, March, June, July and December, and i replaced those pages in this post for review.
shirk
I think I also submitted a triple portrait of Farrah + Gemma + Kip shot through a window+porch door that I don’t see. But it was from a distance, so it’s totally fine if it didn’t make the cut because the pet images themselves ended up too small. (Or if my brain is convinced it did something it didn’t… :-) ). Thank you for all the hard work on this!
scuffletuffle
Raccoon babies standing proud, call them Things 3 through 5 if you need names, Thing 1 and Thing 2 are twin kitty boys.
Thank you!
NWO Joe
Perfect! Thanks so very much for all the hard work you’re putting into this!
RedDirtGirl
I love Kylie’s side-eye in November!
RedDirtGirl
@PaulWartenberg: Reminds me of the opening of the Brady Bunch!
WaterGirl
@shirk: Yeah, we typically go for one photo of each pet. But if you have pets A, B, and C, and you have a photo of A + B and another of B + C, we have all of the pets in there, so we don’t post them all.
Exceptions are if another photo happens to be perfect for another location, then we occasionally have two pictures of the same guy in the calendar.
So it’s not that the photo of all 3 didn’t make the cut, it’s that we already had all 3 of your guys in there.
But that’s an excellent question and I bet other folks might wonder the same thing, so I’m glad you mentioned it.
WaterGirl
@scuffletuffle: I think we’ll go with “The Raccoons” then. :-)
debbie
@debbie:
Nice! The pairs of February are still my favorite!
shirk
@WaterGirl: Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense.
Love the themes on some of months: January black & white, February pairs… Great design work! Thanks again.
WaterGirl
@shirk: Beth gets credit for all the themes! She is a great designer.