These 12 designs include...

January - a cozy gingerbread mouse house, plus a couple penguins meeting a chilly cat.

February- some friends making and mailing valentines, plus a cute rat in a gravy boat and a colorful chicken mailing their love letters.

March- a crow and rat friend treasure hunting under the stars, plus a little petal covered rat excited about the first signs of spring.

April- cherry blossom season! A little rat friends picnic and a dog biking to the library through the cherry trees.

May- tea time in the rice paddy, just as rice is starting to be planted. Plus some rats find a "once in a lifetime" strawberry, and the cicadas begin to sing in May.

June- can be a little rainy, but it's also the month of the hydrangeas blooming, so there are beetles in boots and rats jumping in puddles!

July- the ice cream truck has something for everyone, plus a vending machine for something cold to drink. Did you know that when blue tailed skinks eat popsicles, their tongues turn blue too?

August- back to school and work on the train, plus a fridge full of flowers for the bumblebee, and making wishes on dandelions for the bear and rat friends.

September- picking persimmons in the orchard, plus some hedgehogs disguised as chestnuts.

October- trick or treating rats in their forest neighborhood! Plus pumpkin carving and apple pie.

November- hot cider in the pumpkin patch at sunset, plus three proud members of the leaf peeping club.

December- a festive holiday feast, and a merry christ-mouse!