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If you make calendars as gifts...
how do you balance including all the families?
I make calendars for my side of the family. They include my parents, my family, my sister's family, and my brother's family. Each of the 4 families provides photos, and I gift calendars to everyone. Back when I started making them, my oldest was the only grandchild and my siblings weren't married. The entire group of us was only 7 people; now we're 14 people--6 grandkids in 3 different families plus 4 sets of adults. My parents like to have every grandchild on every page, which means I'm packing between 3 and 6 photos on every page. It's just not fun to make the calendars anymore. I love the result, but even pre-made calendars require so much tweaking that they're not fast. I don't want to stop making them, but I don't want to keep doing it like this, either. So hit me with your best ideas for how to divide up the pages. I'm thinking of assigning 2 pages for each family, 1 page for a group photo of the cousins, 1 page for a group photo of all of us, and then having the 3 or so remaining pages include all 6 kids. Has anyone done anything different? Thanks!
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There are six siblings in my family and I do one for my mom every year. I don't always get pictures from my siblings, but can scavenge off FB sometimes. So it really depends on the pictures. Since there are 6 kids, I usually devote the top of the calendar to one family so each of us would have 2 months focus. But if I don't have enough pictures then I would combine - for example - this year I did all the first day of school pictures of the grandkids I had - or halloween pictures of grandkids for October, etc. Then I put a picture of each person on their Birthday and anniversary in the calendar grid. I also add pictures down in the calendar grid on the non date squares just to add the extra pictures that may not have fit anywhere else.
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Each family gets a few pages, much like you, and some pages are group pages. I usually assign a month based on birthdays, or near birth months for the grandkids. I just make sure every family is equally represented and every grandchild shown. And it's just for my Dad....
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I only make one for my parents and I only include photos of Cheyanne - I started when she was a baby as a way for them to have a yearly "album" of her photos.
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Thanks! I'm actually looking forward to working on them, and it's been a few years since I could say that. I've got photos from 2 of the 3 families, but I still have to sort through mine.
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