For years, I used Microsoft Publisher to make posters for civic events. Then son Chris brought me a new computer. It is a wonderful computer but my very old publisher program was not compatible and could not be transferred over. When I checked out prices for a new system, it was more than I could afford.
For a while, I talked friends with such programs into making posters for me. I scanned the results and made copies from the scans. But I still wanted to make my own posters.
When I was sorting the odds and ends of paper in my supplies, I ran across some stationery, the kind used to print out letters from the computer. It had an interesting sunset motif. I got an idea. I worked out what I wanted to say about my book signing in March, wrote it up and printed it on the stationery. It made a perfect poster.
I have another signing coming up on April 27, but was out of paper, the fancy kind. There was none to be found in Seymour.
I met my friend Norma for breakfast in Oshkosh this morning, as I do whenever she comes down from Chicago to visit her sister. I told her what kind of paper I needed. She suggested I go to the Goodwill store right down the street. I tried it and sure enough, there was a pack of the exact paper I needed for two dollars.
When I came home I set up the poster in exactly ten minutes and made thirty copies. Tomorrow, they'll go up all over town.
I dropped off the first posters at Sissy's and found out that they are running low on Yesterday's Secrets, Tomorrow's Promises. I have to order another case of them.
Things are going my way.
For a while, I talked friends with such programs into making posters for me. I scanned the results and made copies from the scans. But I still wanted to make my own posters.
When I was sorting the odds and ends of paper in my supplies, I ran across some stationery, the kind used to print out letters from the computer. It had an interesting sunset motif. I got an idea. I worked out what I wanted to say about my book signing in March, wrote it up and printed it on the stationery. It made a perfect poster.
I have another signing coming up on April 27, but was out of paper, the fancy kind. There was none to be found in Seymour.
I met my friend Norma for breakfast in Oshkosh this morning, as I do whenever she comes down from Chicago to visit her sister. I told her what kind of paper I needed. She suggested I go to the Goodwill store right down the street. I tried it and sure enough, there was a pack of the exact paper I needed for two dollars.
When I came home I set up the poster in exactly ten minutes and made thirty copies. Tomorrow, they'll go up all over town.
I dropped off the first posters at Sissy's and found out that they are running low on Yesterday's Secrets, Tomorrow's Promises. I have to order another case of them.
Things are going my way.
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