Flower show...
Jan. 30th, 2006 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishMy garden club is trying to get back in the habit of having an annual flower show (if you missed it last year, here are ton of photos ). We traditionally have them in the fall to avoid the overly booked spring weekends when anyone and everyone in gardening has some sort of event. However, last fall we had a lack of facilities; the mobile home park whose clubhouse we usually use was having its own logistical problems in getting some building work done, and there was a space of some months where we couldn't use the building at all - we even had to have meetings at members houses. Carole inquired at a bunch of places, but all of them charged a steep fee, often per hour. We're a small club with a fairly small budget, so those were just not options. The October date came and went without a place to have it, so it was finally decided we should have it in early spring before all the major garden activity starts (March 26).
Finally, someone suggested the Senior Center only a few blocks from my house (a place I've been trying to get my dad to check out for quite a while), and it turns out that as long as it's open to the public and they can publish it as part of their programs, we can use it for free! Yay! Hopefully, it will inspire members of the public to enter as well.
So I was in charge of making the booklet with all the rules and categories for entry. I got most of it done in September when we were still going to have the show in October. However, since it's now in spring instead of fall, the lists of cut specimens had to be changed to plants that are blooming then - a lot more than there were previously. I got all the changes done Sunday, but since my stupid version of Word is the previous to the most current, it does not have the option that allows printing as a folded booklet - i.e. if you have it set to print two pages per landscaped sheet, the print feature will put them in the proper order, so you can just fold it in half after printing (a feature that WordPerfect had in version 7, and they're up to, what, 12 now?) I formatted it at work where I do have the proper version, and since we wanted to distribute them at the meeting that night, at lunchtime took it to Kinko's to have it copied. It's been a while since I've done this, so I was totally shocked at the prices. I was hoping to get nice color copies at least for club members, however, when the girl rang up 25 copies it came to $344!!!! So I told her 25 copies just with color covers and 25 black and white copies; she quoted me around $50; still high, imho. When I went to pick them up after work, I looked through my box and discovered only 21 copies, just the ones with color covers and no black and white ones at all. I know I repeated myself several times when I ordered, however when I looked at my claim check it just said 20. Grrrr, my fault for not checking.
If I do them next time, hopefully I'll have enough time to print them myself. Even buying a new color cartridge is less than that.
Finally, someone suggested the Senior Center only a few blocks from my house (a place I've been trying to get my dad to check out for quite a while), and it turns out that as long as it's open to the public and they can publish it as part of their programs, we can use it for free! Yay! Hopefully, it will inspire members of the public to enter as well.
So I was in charge of making the booklet with all the rules and categories for entry. I got most of it done in September when we were still going to have the show in October. However, since it's now in spring instead of fall, the lists of cut specimens had to be changed to plants that are blooming then - a lot more than there were previously. I got all the changes done Sunday, but since my stupid version of Word is the previous to the most current, it does not have the option that allows printing as a folded booklet - i.e. if you have it set to print two pages per landscaped sheet, the print feature will put them in the proper order, so you can just fold it in half after printing (a feature that WordPerfect had in version 7, and they're up to, what, 12 now?) I formatted it at work where I do have the proper version, and since we wanted to distribute them at the meeting that night, at lunchtime took it to Kinko's to have it copied. It's been a while since I've done this, so I was totally shocked at the prices. I was hoping to get nice color copies at least for club members, however, when the girl rang up 25 copies it came to $344!!!! So I told her 25 copies just with color covers and 25 black and white copies; she quoted me around $50; still high, imho. When I went to pick them up after work, I looked through my box and discovered only 21 copies, just the ones with color covers and no black and white ones at all. I know I repeated myself several times when I ordered, however when I looked at my claim check it just said 20. Grrrr, my fault for not checking.
If I do them next time, hopefully I'll have enough time to print them myself. Even buying a new color cartridge is less than that.
