If you've made calendars (with pics of your kids) as gifts...

[helena]

did you put only recent photos? Did you use photos from through out the years? This would be for grandparents.

 

Also, is there a company that's especially good for this (easy)? Should I just use iPhoto if that's where my photos are?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

[jelbe5]

I use pictures from the current year and upload them to Walgreens. They often have a coupon code. Very easy!

[ChrisB]

My SIL does this every year for us. She uses only pictures from the current year. She does it through Shutterfly. I think they have good prices and is easy to use.

[Dmmetler]

I use Vistaprint-usually they're quite inexpensive, especially if you're also ordering cards or other gift items too. We do ones with my daughter's art work each year.

[Susan in TN]

I once made a "grandparents" book with one photo of each child with the grandparents as a baby (or as young as I could find) and then a recent photo of each. Then a recent photo of the whole family w/grandparents.

[wtrmlnlabs]

I make MIL one every year for Mother's Day. I use a picture from the previous year for each month, so if I'm making her calendar for 2013 pics are from 2012. I usually end up ordering from Walmart each year, ends up to be cheapest and I can pick up in store... plus she likes how you can put a picture in the day of the month, easier to notice the birthdays!

[regentrude]

We do it every year for the grandparents and use photos from that year.

[helena]

Boy, this is making me realize that I need to take more non-school related pictures, and that I don't have many with grandparents.

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[Element]

Although I am not doing one this year, I have done a yearly calendar through Shutterfly many times. I use not only pics from that year, but I also scan in artwork from that year and upload those files. For the month of December, I do use pics from the previous December since I usually have to order in late November (so by the time the recipient gets to that calendar month the pics are two years old, if that makes sense.) I've never used another service, but we have always been VERY happy with the quality of the Shutterfly calendars.

Edited December 10, 2011 by Element
clarification!

[WeeBeaks]

We did this last year through Costco. We used only the prior year.

[Chris in VA]

Last year we did one with recent pics. This year we are going for a nostalgic feel and put in all old pics--first making sure they weren't ones our parents had already!

We scanned negatives (so we used pics from before we had a digital camera), and uploaded to Vistaprint. I thinkt the calendars were about 7 or 8 bucks each.

[VeteranMom]

I have used Shutterfly for the past 4 years. I use photos from the previous 12 months. I've always liked the quality of Shutterfly calendars.

[Zuzu822]

My sister and I are using Snapfish this year, and we're using pictures from 2011. For each child's birthday, however, we are able to add a newborn picture to the little square for the specific date. It's been very easy!

[Abeth78]

We put up mostly current and a few oldies as favorites.

 

OH!!! And Shutterfly has a buy 1 get 2 free right now! For the next few days anyway. We love their quality! Been getting them for a few years from there. I think Mac calendars are expensive personally. We have IPhoto too.

[KellyGirl]

I do one for my in-laws every year using current pictures. In the past I have used Walmart, Snapfish and Shutterfly. This year, I used MixBook and while I don't think that any one is easier than the other, MixBook gives unlimited layout possibilities. You can start with their layout but move, delete and add things without limits. On the other sites I would sometimes be frustrated that I had 2 portrait and 1 landscape shaped pic and couldn't find a layout to accommodate it.

 

I've never order a photo gift from iPhoto, but I do store my pics there. To make it super easy to upload them to another site, I sometimes sort through all my pics and make a new album of all the ones I think I want to use in the calendar. When it's time to import the photos, I can import one whole album instead of searching around for different pics. Then of course you can go back and add more photos if you change your mind later.