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“Pipskintinkle” is the March fairy, captured and shown in “Lady Cotting
ton’s Pressed Fairy Calendar,” a popular 1997 calendar.
Calendars of all shapes, sizes, styles can make perfect holiday gifts for anyone
By Thomas Schoenborn
Oregon Daily Emerald
f you’re looking for a cheap,
slightly impersonal holiday
gift, think calendars. Usually
no more than $10, they’re
funny, useful and sometimes
pretty original. You can tell a lot about
people by the calendars that are hanging
on their walls or providing the founda
tion for a pile of papers on their desks.
The University Bookstore is a shop
close to campus that has quite a selection.
“Oregon calendars, scenic ones, sell
really well. I think Oregonians see them
selves as being very close to nature,” said
Cindy Heidemann, a buyer for the Uni
versity Bookstore.
“Funny calendars always sell really
well at colleges. Dilbert sells really well
and so do the Far Side calendars,” Hei
demann said.
Those daily calendars are great for tear
ing out pages and sticking them to the
door of your office.
As heavy as they are, they also make
great paper-weights.
“We have some fractal calendars. Like
computer representations of fractals.
They’re pretty odd. 1 don’t really know
who buys them. Last year there were only
two types of them. This year there are
six,” Heidemann said.
Fractal calendars: a gift for the closet
computer geek.
Heidemann also said “Lady Cotting
£(
Lady Cottington’s is doing surprisingly
well. It’s like fairies pressed into a book -
stains and all.
— Alice Evans
Marketplace Books
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ton’s Pressed Fairy Calendar” sells real
ly well.
“It’s pretty strange. You’ve got to won
der what [the creators] dream about at
night,” she said.
“Lady Cottington’s is doing surprising
ly well. It’s like fairies pressed into a
book — stains and all,” said Alice Evans,
a bookseller at Marketplace Books in the
5th Street Market.
The Pressed Fairy Calendar is pretty
off-beat. It was created by some former
Monty Python folks. One of the more
interesting things about is all the faerie
holidays.
If ever the need for a gathering of
friends arises, you can celebrate Goblin
Adoption Day. Once your hangover sub
sides, you can celebrate Return the
Adopted Goblins Day just a few days
later.
Evans said her two biggest sellers are
the Pressed Faerie Calendar and William
Wegman’s “Man’s Best Friend.”
Wegman’s calendar has pictures of his
Weimaraners dressed in clothes, wearing
wigs and generally looking very un-dog
gish.
“With animal calendars, especially
Wegman’s, it’s really hit or miss. Some
people find it attractive, other people find
it disgusting. I happen to find it very
attractive,” Evans said.
“Mostly, we get women buying calen
dars. Mostly, women buy the weekly cal
endars and carry them around with them.
They use them as their appointment
books,” Evans said.
One of the more different calendars is
the Celestial Influences calendar.
“There are certain people who are
looking for this type of thing,” Evans
said. “They need their astrology every
day.”
COURTESY PHOTO
This unnamed fairy of uncertain species is pressed into the month of
August in “Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Calendar.”
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