Wow!
It's been awhile!
I am currently working on getting pictures in albums and I am going to put down some ideas that I have had this evening as I have been wallowing in frustration.
Picasa, which is a Google application, has made sorting, uploading and ordering prints a snap, so to speak. When I download pictures to my computer, Picasa automatically picks them up. When I am ready to order prints, all I have to do is go to the right month, fill the tray with the pics that I want to order, click on "web albums", upload to the webpage, and they are ready to order!
There are several different places to order from.
Another nice thing about doing it this way is that the best pictures are backed up online and I can share the albums with others. If I share an album, the person I share with can then order if they want to.
Emailing out of Picasa is easy too.
I haven't been very good this year about getting photos into albums, so I have been ordering them and then stacking the envelopes in a tub to be sorted and put in albums later. BAD idea!
So, so as I am sorting, I am finding that twice I had ordered pictures and duplicated prints. Somewhere I have read that if you are organized you will save money by not buying things twice. Yes, that is certainly true. Too bad I didn't have a system set up!
Note to self: Order prints at the end of each month and put them in order in a small tub until there is time to put them in albums. This way months won't get skipped or duplicated.
New Rule # 2: When that little tub is full, it is time to do albums! Try to have the year in pictures complete for Christmas time.
Also, I usually use Shutterfly, but I noticed that Snapfish had a better price so I gave them a try. Nope, I do not like the way the prints come out. I am sticking with Shutterfly.
I have a couple more months to get done but I can't afford it right now so I have written the months on stickies and put them on the pics in the tub. I'll know where to start ordering even if I don't get to the albums for awhile.
So, this is one area where I am determined to stick to my new system. I won't have to work so hard next time!
Friday, May 23, 2008
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I love the feel of home and I love the business of making my home and homeschool work as smoothly and "Grace"fully as possible. I want to help preserve the art of Domesticity, with the added Blessing of Home Education.
This is the purpose of this blog. To pass along some of the things I have learned, and am learning, about organizing, about cooking, about homeschooling, about time management and other tidbits.
This is the purpose of this blog. To pass along some of the things I have learned, and am learning, about organizing, about cooking, about homeschooling, about time management and other tidbits.