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Launch: Reconnect With Nature 2024 Calendar - available to order now!

My calendar Reconnect with Nature 2024 is now ready to go! Thanks so much to everybody who asked me when it would be coming out and encouraged me to go through with it once more. As always it takes a lot longer to get to the print ready stage than imagined but the printer’s sample has just arrived and it looks and feels perfect and well worth the wait! You can get a sneak peek of the inside here.

Reconnect With Nature 2024 is a 12 month botanical calendar featuring prints from my original watercolour paintings. Each month features a different plant subject, some from Auckland Wintergardens, others from my neighbourhood, and some more relaxed nature journaling images straight from my sketchbooks. I hope you enjoy them!

The calendar is A4 opening to A3 portrait size. It features one month per spread with a final double page allowing forward planning for 2025.

It is printed locally in New Zealand, on an uncoated card stock which is completely recyclable when the year is over. It will be delivered in a waterproof compostable plastic envelope which can be recycled with your soft plastics.

A note on postage:

  • Postage and packaging within New Zealand is $5 (for up to 5 calendars).

  • Postage and packaging outside NZ is set at $7 per calendar due to a quirk in the NZ postal system, which means weirdly it’s cheaper for you if I mail them to you individually.

  • If you wish to make a bulk order let me know and I can investigate postage for you.

  • All postage will be untracked due to the excessive cost, however if you would like yours tracked please email me.

Thanks so much to Benedict O’Flaherty for the beautiful design and to Nicholas O’Flaherty for the production assistance and detail orientation.

If you think this calendar would make a lovely gift or adorn your kitchen or study wall feel free to order now. We should get our hands on them early next week and mail them out in good time for Christmas (allowing for the vagaries of international post).

Click here if you’d like one. And please - do let me know if anything weird happens in the ordering. We’ve tested it out but you just never know!

Love, Jennifer xx

Jennifer Duval-Smith