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November 26, 2007
timely
Over the weekend I decided to start archiving my digital photos. I wont bore you with the gory details, but lets just while I was staring at a computer screen, waiting, waiting, waiting, I thought I should do something constructive.
So I thought, hey, why not make a new calendar for 2008?!?!
I knew that there was an flickr toy that would make calendars out of your photos for free so I got to it.
First I picked 14 photos I thought would make great photos (I wanted the calendar to start Dec 2007 and end Jan 2009) and dropped them into the create a calendar app. (sooo easy!) Then I saved each month into a folder. This part took a little while, but I did have time to kill.
I then tried to print a couple out onto 200gsm paper (so it would be nice and stiff) but I soon figured out that each calendar page defaulted to 'letter' size, and here in Oz we use A4 size.
Ug.
So I had to take each calendar page and put it onto a Word page and resize before it would print properly. And I figured that since I was doing that, I might as well add some 'inspirational quotes' to the bottom of each month.
Once it was all printed out I took it up to Officeworks and had it spiral bound across the top (which cost like $3 or something). I'm planning on using a bull clip to hang it on a hook in my cubicle at work.
I'm quite happy with the results, I can't wait for December 1 so I can put it up!!!!
-gg
If you want to make a calendar for yourself:
Here's the flickr calendar toy thingie, here are a few quote sites, I just love good quotes and just in case you are the one person who doesn't use flickr, now's the time to get signed up, mk?
Here are the photos/quotes I used:
*Dec 07-'Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly'- Robert F. Kennedy
*Jan 08-'Back up my files?! Are you kidding? Is that a real thing you have to do? I always thought that that was just like... you know, a figure of speech.' -Strong Bad
*Feb 08-'You must be the change you wish to see in the world.' - Mahatma Gandhi
*March 08- 'We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.' -Kurt Vonnegut Jr
*April 08- 'The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.' -Mark Twain
*May 08- 'Birthdays are just nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.' - Anonymous
*June 08- 'If you never change your mind, why have one?' - Edward de Bono
* July 08- 'Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.' -Jacques Delille
*Aug 08- 'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.' -Aristotle
*Sept 08- 'Paths are made by walking' - Franz Kafka
*Oct 08- 'As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.' -Julius Caesar
*Nov 08- 'Play is the highest form of research.' - Albert Einstein
*Dec 08- 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.' - Scottish proverb
*Jan 09- 'If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.' -Tallulah Bankhead
Posted by gadgetgirl at November 26, 2007 08:47 AM
Comments
so can we pay for the spiral binding & shipping so we can have a calendar??????????? Rob's dad asks
Posted by: bob barker at November 26, 2007 11:12 AM
Me too.
Posted by: Mom at November 26, 2007 10:38 PM
done and done.
Posted by: gadgetgirl at November 27, 2007 06:39 AM
Oh thanks, looking forward to it.............Dad
Posted by: bob barker at November 27, 2007 12:03 PM
that does sound cool, be a good teen afternoon activity if you had computers or a laptop at the back there :)
Posted by: ec at November 27, 2007 06:11 PM
that would be awesome! good thought
Posted by: gadgetgirl at November 27, 2007 07:02 PM