It’ll be a couple more weeks before I can get back to rewrites on mystery novel number one. With Xmas coming, it’s time to think about gifts and get all that out of the way first because I have to mail stuff. Sometimes I wish family lived closer and maybe someday I’ll live closer to them. We’ll see.
Right now, I’m making my mom a family calendar, like I do
every year. Gathering pics is a real
challenge, but I get a few new ones to work with every year. It takes me a good two weeks to get this
thing together. I have a template for
the calendar pages, but the dates have to be changed on it every year so it
matches the actual calendar year coming up.
Then I always add family birthdays, anniversaries and holidays in all
the appropriate places. Once that’s
done, it’s time to tackle the picture portion.
Actually, I enjoy this part because I get to use a different
creative ability and work in Photoshop (in layers) to assemble the collage that
will go on each page for each month.
Once it’s all finished, I can print it taking extra care I put the right
calendar on the right picture page because it will be a flip calendar when
finished in size 8 ½ X 11.
Back of 2014 Calendar
The back page takes the longest because I put a thumbnail pic of each month’s picture back there. It looks really nice when completed, but is a detailed and time consuming job.
My next post will be about writing I hope.
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