Right here at ABM, we love a very good undertaking that not solely helps set up our lives, however can be fairly to have a look at, too! We did an workplace makeover for our buddy Allison lately and she or he requested for an outsized calendar to assist preserve her busy schedule multi functional place. I like the look of acrylic calendars, however this time we needed to make one thing that was a pop of coloration. So we determined to function a coral pink coloured sheet and we’re in love with the way it turned out!
Provides:
–giant acrylic sheet (I ordered a 1/8″ thick 36″x36″ sq. within the pink coloration)
–4″ white letter stickers
–1/8″ white vinyl chart tape
–wall mounting {hardware} and drill
-ruler, X-Acto knife, and painter’s tape for placement guides (a transparent acrylic ruler is useful)
First, reduce your day of the week letters out of your sticker sheet, leaving slightly little bit of paper round every letter form. This may will let you place the letters in roughly the house they are going to go and provide you with some concept of placement. Minimize out two of the parentheses as properly and place then within the center close to the highest the place you wish to write your month.
Take your painter’s tape and use a ruler to mark out a rectangle that’s 28″ broad and 20″ tall on the within fringe of the tape. The within fringe of the rectangle begins 4″ in from both sides and three″ up from the underside.
As soon as your rectangle is taped off, take your ruler and make marks on the tape each 4″ so you may have a row of seven marks throughout the rectangle, and 5 marks down the rectangle. Use your skinny vinyl tape to attach the marks throughout from one another so you find yourself with 35 containers. You may both try to reduce your tape with scissors to be as near the blue painter’s tape as you may, or your can use an X-Acto knife to chop by the tape on the level the place the tapes overlap. 
To shut up the perimeters of your grid, mark on the underside and prime items of painter’s tape the place the facet tape must be, pull off the facet painter’s tape, and run a bit of tape from the highest to the underside mark to shut up the facet. Repeat with the opposite facet after which take away the underside and prime tapes and run tape throughout these traces as properly to finish the grid. 
I used acrylic rulers so I might simply see the place the center of every sq. was (and preserve the underside of all my letters on the similar 1/2″ peak from the grid line) for putting my letters above the grid.
PRO TIP! For initiatives like this, I wish to peel off the backing of the sticker on only a small part of the letter, place it and modify as wanted, after which push down on the half that doesn’t have the backing to tack it down in place. Then I peel off the remainder of the backing (whereas that one half stays caught) after which clean all of it out. It’s method simpler than taking off all of the backing and making an attempt to position it completely and easily on the primary attempt!
As soon as all of the letters had been in place, I centered my parentheses about 1 1/4″ from the highest of the letters (and about 14″ aside) and did the identical trick with peeling off a part of the backing to stay them in place.
As soon as my month spot was set, the calendar was prepared to hold!
I painted the wall {hardware} gold and drilled 4 holes to hold the calendar. Some individuals advocate drilling backwards into acrylic whereas pushing down with the drill to drill a gap extra slowly and keep away from any cracking, however I’ve achieved that and the common forwards method and haven’t observed a lot distinction. However attempt the backwards technique in case you are anxious about it.
I like the simplicity of the calendar with the clear look of the tape and stickers, however the pop of coloration from the acrylic actually makes it really feel particular. This appears so good in Allison’s workplace and now she will have an area to plan out her month and set up all of the issues a busy boss babe must attend to. When you’ve acquired a necessity for an elegant calendar to arrange your month, I hope this may help plan out your life too! xo. Laura