Advice to Mothers

Everyone tends to use calendars these days. Whether it is an actual calendar on the wall, a PDA, or some sort of planner - calendars are essential to the lives of people these days.

So when you are stuck for present ideas (especially for family members) you can make calendars.

There are make at home calendar kits. Printshop and MS Publisher have calendar templates you can print off and then take to Kinko’s (or somewhere) and have them bind it and copy it as a calendar.

You can also take pictures and upload them into a calendar creator online like shutterfly or zazzle.

Some places, like Franklin Covey, offer customizable planner pages for the people in your life who use planners.

Or you can create scrapbook pages and then upload those as the pictures (which is what I did). Or you can create scrapbook pages, scan them into the computer, and use those as calendar pages. Or simply have the copy shop copy the scrapbook pages.

You can personalize calendars with family dates. Some programs even let you put pictures in on the grid for the dates so that on someone’s birthday you can have their picture show up. Or a marriage picture on someone’s anniversary.

I love giving calendars. I know that people are going to use them, and I know that I spent some time creating them. They are not that expensive, when you look at alternative gifts. If you make scrapbook pages as the calendar pictures, you can use those later to make customizable cards, t-shirts, mugs and mousepads. People really appreciate the effort you put into personal gifts like this, and family truely appreciates it.

If you want to see the scrapbook pages I used as my back grounds click HERE.

Good Luck!

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