Ok, so I've posted before about how I take numerous amounts of pictures while standing on the sideline of every playing field imaginable while watching my punk boys and they're sports teams play ball. And I've also posted about how I love to make things. Both are fun, exciting and what keep me sane. That's really the reason why I think I do all this except that I think it's also because these kids amaze me. My own children as well as rest of the team. I suppose I do it because energy begets energy. I love evergy. I pray all the time "Dear God please give me more energy"! And when I am watching life in motion right in front of my eyes it's amazing to me. It energizes me and I want to catch that energy. Capture it. Keep it for a moment I suppose. I also want to share it with the world. So now I'm sharing it with you. Here goes:
I start off the season of any sports season, any season, be it football, baseball, basketball, Tae Kwon Do, etc. etc. times a million and I set up folders for each team player like this. It's very simple to do. Really. I promise. People think I'm sooooo techy and knowledgable about the computers and software and stuff. I laugh at this. I laugh til I nearly fall down. I'm about as technical as good ol fashioned lemonade. How's that for a bad metaphor? I'm the queen of them ya know? Bad metaphors that is. Onward now. I make folders. Very simple. I am not techy at all.
After every game I unload my camera and then slide the individual pics into their proper folder. The team shots I copy over X's12 or X's22 for football. And so on and so on.
Then at the end of a season I do this:
I make books. Or I make picture discs. What ever I have time for. And I use this system here. Memorex. If you purchase the labels there is a free dowloadable software that is super easy to use.
What is so wonderful about this is the disc turn out looking really cool. They print beautifully and don't have the slighest hint of a cheesy look to them. I don't care for cheesy.
Anyway, I then choose my pic to put on the label. Like so..
When the image pops up on the disc format it is in a little red box. You then have to use your mouse to pull and drag the photo to fit the disc frame. Very easy.
Once you have the image centered you can apply text to the image. I love this! I type the player name and jersey #. It looks very professional and tricky. Although, once again I am not the slighest bit professional or tricky. It looks that way. This font is called AllStar. If you ask me all the kids are AllStars. They just are.
Then you just print the darn thing. It comes out looking spectacular. If I do say so myself.
Then here may be the only tricky part of the whole operation. The sticking the lable on part. It goes like this. Wait for your disc to come out of the computer. The disc you have loaded all the player pics on. Waiting.... waiting.. I don't like waiting. Patience is a virtue ya know? A virtue I have not yet aquired so it seems.
Then grab your disc. That disc you have been waiting 20 years for to come out of the computer. (My computer is very slow)
Very, very slow. So grab your disc, like so.
Then carefully peel your label off the sheet... Like so...
and place it face down on your disc container. Like so.
Then make sure you have flipped your disc shiny side up before dropping it onto the label. Like so. Are you tired of me saying like so yet? Good. Let's continue.
Then when you pick it up, you have a perfectly labled disc.
Then you pop it into a shiny little CD case and one more time LIKE SO. And you have the perfect team gift.
You can also quickly and easily make a case label to put on the back. Just like the disc it is super easy to make. You can also add another picture to the back, like shown here. Super neat looking!
Then watch the faces of the kids and parents as you hand them out at the team party. It's more fun than you can imagine. Sharing the love that is. And that's what it comes down to. Love. Love of life and all that goes on within it.
So try these. You won't be disappointed. Perhaps you could take pics of a summer cookout with friends and family. Or a birthday party. Then make a disc for each of your guests. They will feel the love. I promise they will. No doubt about it.
Over and out.
The picture takin, disc makin, non patient Side Line Mama. (although I'm working ont he patient part- I promise)
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