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Get ready for Winter with your very own December 2023 Calendar freebie!

Get your copy now! The December 2023 Calendar can be downloaded from our Freebie section now.

Get on with Winter and ready for all your countdown and reminder needs. This calendar is perfect to keep track of things in life and to remind yourself of that special date you have in the month of December!

Hope you all enjoy it and, as always, keep safe! 😍

Our shop has even more stickers for you to accompany this calendar. We have stickers for the cold days and for the warm days too!

Be sure to take a look at them when you can! You’re always welcome in our little shop. πŸ₯°

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October and November freebie calendars for 2023!

2023.09.29 update: There was an issue with downloading the freebies from our shop. This has been resolved and you don’t have to go through the checkout process to download the freebies! Let us know if any further issues appear. ☺️

We’re pleased to give back to the planner community for your kind support. Download these freebie calendars at any time!

Our planner sticker designs are part of these cute calendars for October and November of 2023! Get your copies FREE by downloading in the respective calendar page!

Add a touch of fall to your planners and agendas with these free calendars. They could serve as dashboards for your daily view or as a scrapbooking detail into your planner to keep a countdown or to track different details about your day or month. A countdown to a special date could be what these are good for you.

Hope you all enjoy and stay safe!! πŸ₯°

Thanks for the ongoing support to our handmade planner sticker shop! Thanks for shopping from small businesses like us!

How do you find these freebie calendars? Let us know how you use these little calendars. Share your ideas and experiences using them. You could give us great ideas! πŸ˜‰ Tell us in the comments and on the reviews in any of the product pages.

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New planner sticker releases this September!

Hello Minties!

Hola! Hola! πŸ‘‹ We hope all of you and your families are doing great! πŸ“Œ

We are super excited πŸ˜† to announce that this weekend we have some super cute releases.  Most of them are request from many of you (like the super cute Bun Bun in Barbie themed) and it makes us super happy to be able to make them.

We hope you love them as much as we loved designing them.

If you buy one of our designs, let us know how you liked them with a review in the product page! That helps a lot! πŸ₯°

These are just some of our new releases. See more in the shop!
Stay safe our Minties, that’s what matters the most.

πŸ“‹ If you have any questions, please let us know, we will be super happy to help you! 😘😘😘

With lots of love,

Mrs. Mint

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A friendly PSA on using Silhouette Studio on newer M1 and M2 Mac computers | Mr + Mrs Mint

Hi Minties! Let’s talk a little about an ongoing issue that’s been on a couple of people minds lately in regards with Silhouette Studio files for printables. This does not apply only to our digital files but seems to affect every file created in the Windows version of Silhouette Studio when opened for printing on the Mac version of Silhouette Studio.

GEEK SPOILER ALERT πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»

This post can get somewhat nerdy/geeky as Mr Mint has been doing research on this. Please bear with him as he’s just trying to help explain what is happening and to have you enjoy our digital files as much as possible. πŸ₯° Onwards with the content!

Who is affected

This is affecting those users on newer Mac computers released with the following processor families:

Apple M2: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-unveils-m2-pro-and-m2-max-next-generation-chips-for-next-level-workflows/

Apple M1: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/

I’ll try giving some insight into it, from what I’ve gathered so far. πŸ˜‰

The Issue

Opening the Silhouette cut files on one of these Mac computers ends up with a β€œprocessing” pop up in Silhouette Studio. It never goes away after that. Also, you could try cut files from other companies and not see this behavior.

You’re not alone on this. There is an issue with files developed in Windows and opened in a newer Mac for printing. So far this approach is not working as expected. Unfortunately we do develop our digital files on Windows machines here @ Mr + Mrs Mint. There has been a number of clients contacting us with this issue. Sadly there has not been a solution to this so far.

This is an example of the behavior of the software in one of these newer Mac computers:

Things to check

Is your Apple machine one of these ARM-based new ones? (Apple M1 or M2 chips) This support article from Apple, can help into pinpointing if your machine is one of these: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211814

These so-new machines often use a translation layer (Rosetta 2) with old/not updated Mac software in order to try to run it on these new processors. This layer translates the usual Intel Mac processor code into ARM (Apple M1/M2 processor) Mac code. These translation layers can/do create issues as the translation is often not transparent or does not include all instructions a software could use and can change the behavior of said software.

This website helps with that: https://doesitarm.com (although I could not find Silhouette Studio there yet). There could be an assortment of these kind of websites trying to give a little scoop of knowledge on software support with M1/M2 Mac.

Possibilities

As a workaround, some clients have successfully opened their designs on a Windows computer without any issue. Dirty workaround though, although available to some. πŸ™ˆ

There seems to be a version of Silhouette Studio for Mac that helps in this issue. The version in question is 4.5.152 which has been reported to be able to open these files without issue. The latest, as of writing, is V4.5.180 (higher) so you may try updating to the latest version and see if that changes anything.

(Technical workaround when nothing else works: In the case of an M1/M2 mac, my mind would definitely go towards spinning up a Windows virtual machine inside macOS but that is outside of the spectrum for some Silhouette Studio owners although I do know there is a good number of geeky Minties! There are some virtualization software for this, Parallels Desktop comes to mind from my Intel Mac days)

We do not use Mac computers on Mr + Mrs Mint for developing our Silhouette Studio digital files so we have no direct way to test/diagnose this issue ourselves.

(We do use Mac minis as home servers here! Even our original Late 2012 Mac mini is doing its rounds 24/7 as our main server with Unraid! But that’s content for another geeky post! Maybe soon! 😎 )

– Mr Mint πŸ˜€

(sorry for the geeky stuff )

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Our First Washi ever! | Mr + Mrs Mint

Hey Minties! I don’t know where to start, but I am beyond πŸ™Œhappy, beyond excited. One of the goals that I had in my wishlist for a long time was to make our first washi tape, but at that time I didn’t have the time ( I was working in a 40 hours job), plus the shop (that I was not talking good care of), plus been a wife, plus my anxiety, plus other personal stuff.


After Covid-19 hit, I was left without the 40 hours job so I took that opportunity to work Mr + Mrs Mint Planner Boutique shop as my main job and give her the love πŸ’• she needed. While I still have other goals on my list for Mr + Mrs Mint, I can proudly check off as βœ… done: Make our first custom Washi Tape. OMG!!!!


How was a able to do it? First of all thanks to my 🀡husband Mr. Mint. Since I deal with lots of anxiety, my mind gets blocked easily, but Mr. Mint gave me a push every day, and for that I am really thankful. Also, I was able to fullfill this milestone thanks to all the Minties πŸ€— in our life that has supported our little corner. Thanks to YOU we are working on other little projects for Mr + Mrs Mint. ((Big hugs to You))


Now let’s present you our new baby in the family, our Holo Foiled Bonnie Washi:


Isn’t she a 😍beauty? I hope you love this washi as much as we do. Thank you so much for been part of this project and for been part of our Mr + Mrs Mint community. Remember we are here because YOU made it happen and for that, we are grateful. πŸ™


PS. Please be safe and healthy, and Happy Planning!!!


WITH LOVE,
Mrs. Mint
Mr + Mrs Mint Planner Boutique