Originally Posted By Disneymom443 Can you belive that I'm already planning my Christmas gifts. I'm making chocolate truffles. I went on foodnetwork and looked up truffles and printed some recipes. My Christmas is going to be a little different this year because my family is driving to WDW on Chritmas day. So for gifts I decided to make Truffles and some other candies. What are any of you doing, or is 6 months away to long for some of you? Let me know if you guys make your gifts and what they are? Belive it or not we will be singing Christmas songs before we know it.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy I never have before, but I'm gonna do one or two Disney digital photo projects in summer so that'll be a little less money to spend come Nov./Dec. Last year I made Mom a giant framed collage of Merryweather moments from "Sleeping Beauty" (from the online gallery I shared at the Ani. Films board here months ago), and one I wanna do for sure is make my sister either a Maleficent or SB general one.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 TDG that is a great idea. How big is giant? How many photos? alexbook, to far ahead, huh?
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Disneymom, I use Kodak Gallery online, and you can get sizes 5x7, 8x10, 16x20, or 20x30---I'm pretty sure I did the 16x20, not exactly sure though. You can make a collage between 4 and 100 photos. Mom's Merryweather was 100. I also did a "Nightmare Before Christmas" general for my brother-in-law that was 100 too, but I did the "jumble" effect on his where it puts the pictures kinda off-kilter for a fun effect (in collages the pics go in order from the top left to the bottom right, like "reading a book" along the rows...sorta like a film strip). I'll try and find a picture of one of 'em when I get home.
Originally Posted By 4Disnee TALL Disney Guy, That sounds really cool! I would also love to see a photo of one. Thanks
Originally Posted By LPFan22 I listen to Christmas music throughout the year when I really need to relax. I've already started my holiday shopping as well. Can't wait!
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I'm getting so excited that I keep getting more recipes to make different candies and truffles. So people are already finnished with Christmas shopping. While, like me normaly, don't start until the day after Thanksgiving.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Ok, here's a not-so-great-but-oh-well (lol) look at the framed Merryweather collage for Mom (she just loves her): <a href="http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=bcgjgyi.6z9jcyf6&Uy=-13t9pb&Ux=0" target="_blank">http://www.kodakgallery.com/Sl ideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=bcgjgyi.6z9jcyf6&Uy=-13t9pb&Ux=0</a> I know it's hard to tell cause the pics are a bit small and you can't see 'em up close in the frame here, but they come out really great---I love the Kodak Gallery website and all the cool gifts like this you can make. And here's an album of the actual 100 pics: <a href="http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=bcgjgyi.4y7qx462&Uy=9q7o51&Ux=0" target="_blank">http://www.kodakgallery.com/Sl ideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=bcgjgyi.4y7qx462&Uy=9q7o51&Ux=0</a> And I didn't take a pic of Sean's "Nightmare Before Christmas" framed collage, but here's an album of 120 pics I took for it (had to narrow it down to 100): <a href="http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=bcgjgyi.2lj1qlhe&Uy=bkj1k8&Ux=0" target="_blank">http://www.kodakgallery.com/Sl ideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=bcgjgyi.2lj1qlhe&Uy=bkj1k8&Ux=0</a>
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 Those are great, thank's for sharing. I never knew kodak gallery did that and I have it. :}
Originally Posted By 4Disnee Wow those are great! That would be a wonderful gift to receive. Thank you so much for sharing them.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Thanks, they were fun to do. If you do those you just have to make sure you have the right order for a "perfect square" so there aren't any spaces after your last picture (I don't know the numbers that are "perfect" for this but I know 4, 64, and 100 are "perfect squares). I tell ya what, they were really "wowsers" on Christmas and so great to see the reactions! Y'all have inspired me to get on the ball again with this and see about makin' calendars (which Kodak has) and other things.
Originally Posted By jdub <Belive it or not we will be singing Christmas songs before we know it.< Are you kidding? It's a hundred degrees outside--I've got my xmas cds spinning in my car NOW!
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Tall! Those pictures are really great! I totally enjoyed looking at them. (Just like I loved those SB screen caps you did. lol.) Thanks for sharing those. You always seem to have such great projects going on, lol. I was thinking about doing some photo projects for Christmas this year and you have inspired me to get on over to the Kodak Gallery and get started! lol.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling As far as Christmas goes, I buy presents all year long in preparation for Christmas. I *love* giving gifts. I wish I were as creative as you guys though! I do make stuff and bake stuff occasionally but not as much as I used to. Maybe that'll change this year. Personally, I think hand-made gifts and personalized things like that are so very special. Those are the gifts that I have treasured most. For me, it really is the thought that counts. Although I am a bit behind schedule with gifts this year though, one of my girlfriends is *all* over it! Bath and BodyWorks had a sale last week and she cleared out an entire shelf of oil burners getting gifts for her co-workers. LOL.
Originally Posted By DJ7K We still have our two, if not one, Fiber Optic trees we got at Wal-Mart last year. They were only about 10 bucks. They look really neat, but I found it a hassle spreading out the bristles (?). Other than that, its pretty neat. It stands 32''. My dad got me one of those radio control flying saucers at the mall. I have an album (currently hidden to visitors) on Epson of Christmas Gifts 2005 and eventually wanted to take webcam shots of it but kept putting it off. Wouldn't be easy though catching it in flight. I can't remember how to get the timer to work on the webcam. I did however manage to use record it with the camcorder my Grandmother gave us. Turned the lights off, let 'er fly and oooh was it sweet. The little fountain I got from Rite Aid was pretty nice too. And my Mom and Step Father bought me this nice black OCC (Orange County Choppers) sweatshirt. Ok here, I decided to put it back up just for this topic: <a href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4081355&a=32033454&f=0&vt=vp&pw=" target="_blank">http://albums.photo.epson.com/ j/AlbumIndex?u=4081355&a=32033454&f=0&vt=vp&pw=</a> As far as planning ahead, no idea.
Originally Posted By JazzCat When we went to Disneyland in December and May, we went to the outlet that's about three miles away. I started stocking up for the LPWB of 2006 then!
Originally Posted By Ursula I'm with ALexbook on this one, folks. Isn't Christmas like, um, four years from now?
