Hubs has wanted to produce a calendar for some time, using pictures from our vast postcard collection. Although it is probably a bit too late for a 2014 calendar, we decided we might as well give it a go. We looked around online for blank calendars that you can stick your own pictures to. I was quite excited by this, because it is an area that I could have contributed to. However, hubs (quite rightly) decided that it wouldn't be professional enough. So then he got some quotes from local printing companies, which were actually reasonable, and he'd picked out one of these to go with.
Then, at the last minute, a friend suggested that we print them ourselves using Microsoft Office and glossy lightweight card. It is easily doable, as Hubs found out in just a couple of hours play. All that is needed now, is to sort out the right photos, add details of Hub's business (he's a picture framer) and design a front cover.
Also, by doing it this way, we can more or less print to order.
So, this then got my creative juices flowing. Why not use the same photos to produce notelets. I could present these in either a box or a gift bag.
As I own a binding machine, I could also produce notebooks in various sizes, again with these photos on the front and back covers.
Can't wait for Sunday when Hubs will produce the final versions of the postcard views we will use.
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