Poster Making (and winners announced)

Hello there.

I am coming to you today with some very good news.  VERY GOOD NEWS.

It’s all about making posters.  Haven’t you always wanted to make a poster?  

Okay, me either.  Not really.  However, back when I had a PC, my friend, Christina, showed me a program called Hallmark Greetings and I was able to use that program to make a poster for my classroom.  I mainly made door posters.  I am all about posters for my door.

It might have something to do with the fact that we do not have hallways and it might also have a little something to do with the fact that I student taught in a school that was open concept which meant there was only one door and that was how you entered into the school building.  The rest of the classrooms were divided by bookcases and chalkboards and filing cabinets.  I did not have a door.  Instead, I had nearby veteran teachers eavesdropping on the disaster that I was at the tender age of oh my word, I’m student teaching and I am so excited, and I have learned all this new stuff that my master teacher doesn’t know, and it would be so great to implement if only I could get the kids to listen to me.


Oh, and I do believe the bathrooms also had doors, but I’m not really sure because I don’t believe I ever went.

Well, that little ditty sure took us on a detour, didn’t it?

Okay, so then I got a Mac.  Which meant I couldn’t use my Hallmark Greetings cd anymore to make posters.  So I cried.

So I went to the Genius Bar.  And guess what?  Those geniuses weren’t really geniuses.  They just pretended they were by wearing their special t-shirts and calling themselves geniuses.

But they didn’t know. 

Not the first, second, or sixth time I went there, either.

I finally found a program that I could download.  It may have been in a different language, but I got it figured out, and I convinced my husband it was safe to download, I wouldn’t get a virus, get off my back, I have to make a door poster for the month of October, I need pumpkins and not apples anymore, DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND, MISTER?

And it was fine, but it was a lot of steps.

A lot.

Fast forward oh, I don’t know how many wasted years of Poster Making That Took Way Too Long, and the amazing Lyndsey Kuster tried to show me how to do it in Power Point.

And it worked.  And it was easy!  And I was so excited that I threw a little party for myself.  

Which means I yelled yahoooooo all by myself in my house and then made a poster of whatever I could think of to try it out.

But.

My poster was grainy.  Blurry.  I thought I wasn’t wearing my contacts, but I actually was wearing my contacts, which I found out when I went to get them out of the case and they were in my eyes.  It wasn’t my vision, it was the poster.

I was frustrated.  BEYOND frustrated.  So I ate a candy bar.  Or two.  I don’t know.  I lost count. 

Lyndsey was so sweet that she said she would make all of my posters for me.  That, right there, is Lyndsey.  And, as much as I wanted to sit on the couch and have someone feed me grapes while Lyndsey did all my work for me, I told her no.

Dangit.

I decided to use the downloadable program.  Last night.

AND IT WOULDN’T OPEN.

I checked updates, disabled cookies, ate a cookie, got my husband involved (are you sure you should have downloaded this, it could be dangerous, you might get a virus, I don’t think you should do this, I don’t recommend this) and then I had a brainstorm.

I contacted Traci at Dragonflies in First.

Because, if you didn’t know, she actually is a genius and should be working at the Genius Bar and she should be the BOSS. 

And guess what?

Traci knew how to do it.

Almost immediately.

It made me happy.  And then it made me sad for all of the wasted time I have spent making posters the super ridiculous hard way because I do not speak the language of the program that I downloaded and I don’t even actually know if it is a human language.

You need to go see Traci’s post {HERE} to find out exactly how easy it is to make a poster!

The only part Traci didn’t go into was the whole You Have To Cut And Paste The Pieces Together thing.

Because, people, I am here to tell you, it is not easy.  THAT part is not easy.  No.  Nope.  SHAKE HEAD.