Fab collection of regional calendars for 2017

Our Calvendo calendar makers cover virtually every topic under the sun, including a variety of UK regions and towns. Take a look at this great collection of regional calendars, featuring delightful British towns, regions and sights, and find your favourite for 2017. There’s still time to order :-): All available on www.hive.co.uk and dispatched within a couple of days.

Lovely Lake District

Natural beauty Northumberland

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Merry Christmas, one and all

More of Capucine’s work in our product gallery

Here we are: 24th December, last day of our Calvendo Advent calendar 2016. Say hello to this wonderful Japanese Kokeshi doll version of Father Christmas in our author Capucine’s delightful A Year of Kokeshi wall calendar – whimsical illustrations of this old Japanese tradition of handmade wooden dolls.

Thanks everyone for joining us on our Advent calendar journey for the past 24 days! Wishing you all a wonderful, peaceful and joyful Christmas with family and friends. Take care of yourselves and only the very best for 2017!

Merry Christmas – Frohe Weihnachten – Joyeux Noël – Buon Natale – Feliz Navidad

It’s the simple things

Quirky, witty, imaginative: Door number 23 of our Advent calendar reveals a peanut family standing in the rain. With eggshell umbrellas. And why not! Our author Nailia Schwarz has created this and other wonderful pictures that tell stories for her wonderful Simple Things wall calendar.