Tea, tulips, and calendar pages

I've brought my monthly calendar to my dining room where I'm enjoying the last of my tulips that are in bloom.  Most were trampled by the hail, then buried under snow the next day.  The snow did far less damage than the hail, though.

Next to my calendar is the set of month and date stamps my friend Annette (Voodoo Vixen) sent me last year and I've only used once.  I plan to use them more this year, although I'm not much of a stamper.

It's amazing what a change in camera direction can do to color balance.  This photo feels so much warmer than the one above.

Here you see my April calendar page.  I still have to finish it.  I love keeping a daily record no bigger than a square inch, but I don't like to make the calendar pages.  Even when the calendar was in a spiral bound notebook, I had a hard time with those little squares.  I finally went to rows of numbers cut from a real calendar.  That has helped, but only marginally.

There was always the problem of glue.  I tried glue sticks and a few of the strips or squares popped off or partially peeled away after I adhered them.  I tried using double sided tape, but it's expensive.  You need at least two of those tape strips for each strip or square you adhere to the page.  Although the pages don't buckle, it seems like a horrible waste of money.

My glue of choice at the moment is white glue, but it's hard to spread it evenly.  When that happens, the squares are hard to write in because they aren't level.  That usually means there are air bubbles between the two surfaces that don't get removed before the glue dries, even though I spread the glue with an old gift card.   Additionally, even though I try to be careful, the pages buckle like crazy when I use white glue.

If anyone has any suggestions on adhesives, I would appreciate them.  Any advice would be welcome.

But right now I must finish this page and get it scanned in order to post it later today.  After that, I'll be taking a bit of a break.  I need to visit my blogging friends and catch up on their lives.  I've not had time to do that for some time.

Since today is Tuesday, I'm celebrating Tea Tuesday with flowers in my combination tea pot and cup.  Please join me and the rest of the crew and we'll be by to visit.