Tomorrow is the last day of January but it's never too late to take action on the New Year's resolutions you made a few weeks ago.

If you are trying to keep better track of your tasks, download these to do and grocery lists. Print them out and you will be on your way to organization.



I use our Kodak ESP9 in the office to print out my to do lists and my Kodak 5300 at home to print my grocery lists.



You can also download a very cool printable 2009 desk calendar too.





The design for the month of May is my favorite!

If you want to hold on to summer a little bit longer, even though Labor Day has passed, here are two projects you can do with the help of your inkjet printer.

By printing out a favorite photo and using this downloadable template you can cut out the pieces to make...

... these Photo Lanterns. They are not safe for real candles, but you could maybe add LED lights. They look cool if you make a bunch and hang them on a patio. For more instructions and the downloadable template visit the Photo Lantern project page.

Another fun project is Photo Drink Umbrellas. Starting with a photo you like and following the instructions on the Photo Drink Umbrella project page, you can create personalized drink umbrellas that would be perfect for a backyard BBQ.

If you make them all from different photos it also helps your guest remember which drink is theirs.

This is not a shameless plug for Kodak, but I do love my job here. Amongst the numerous fun things I get to do at work, this year I am involved with the online preparations for the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, China, of which Kodak is a proud partner.

Check out Kodak's involvement at the Olympic Games, visit often to see the daily updates from Beijing starting August 8.

The spirit of the Games is vibrant and alive around here. We've been planning parties and fun stuff to do around the time of the Games, and you should too. Here's a great way to get started - your very own customized Olympic Party Kit, with invitations, name tags, coasters, napkin rings and more!

Just print the party kit, send out the invites, plan your cuisine around yummy Chinese food, give it some fun sport related names and you'll have a winner at your hands.

Keeping up with the competitive spirit of the Games, you can host a competition or two of your own. Let the guests guess the winners in each category and take home a Gold, Silver or Bronze prize.

Download the party kit here.

If you like this idea, you can view more of the same in our new Printables area at the Tips & Projects Center.

- Shruti

We just featured two great projects in the Tips & Projects Center for Father's Day that could be used for any occasion, really.

For a really cute collage all you need are letters spelling out a word and a willing kid. Here you see adorable Caroline spelling out D-A-D-D-Y for Father's Day. You could use the same idea for Mother's Day, Happy Birthday or Congratulations. The possibilities are endless. Well, as long as the child feels like posing at least.

Here are some tips for creating your own letter collage.

Another good photo project for a Father's Day gift or other occasion are photo book plates. Book plates are a nice way to label the books you own. Adding a photo makes them extra special.

To make your own download the bookplate pdf's from the project page, print them out and glue them into your books.

There are four different designs you can use. Thanks Joel for letting me use your picture as an example. You can use one these book plates to label your copy of "Studio Lighting and Me". Ha-ha.

-Jenny

Sometimes when you are taking pictures, it may seem like you can't get your entire subject in one shot. Or maybe you are having trouble expressing how large something is.

Instead of trying to fit your subject in one picture, try taking a bunch of pictures of different parts of it. Print all the pictures out and place them together to create the whole image. You can overlap the pictures or cut them up like a puzzle. These are two examples I created from a trip to Paris.

Joel Rosen did this beach collage, you can click on it and view it larger.


Joel also did this big collage of the National Archives in Washington DC.

These collages will look cool in a scrapbook or mounted and framed. I have grand visions of covering an entire wall like this. I'll let you know how that pans out.

- Jenny Cisney

My little sister Emily... (Yes, my little sister. I don't know how she got taller than me, but it stinks) graduated from college this past weekend. I wanted to do something special so I made her photo balloon tags to celebrate the occasion.

This is a pretty easy project. I just printed out some pictures of my sister on my Kodak All-in-One Inkjet Printer and taped them to balloon strings.

If you want to see step by step instructions go check out the Photo Balloon Tag project page in the Tips & Project's Center.

On that page you will also find downloadable templates for the "Congratulations!" tags that you can print out and add to the balloon with the photo.

It looks cool if you do a bunch of balloons with different pictures and group them together.

There is also a template for Birthdays. I wanted to make one of these and the closest birthday I could think of was mine!

So I made a Happy Birthday Balloon for me. Umm, yeah, I made it for myself. Is that wrong?

I could see extending this idea to all sorts of occasions... anniversaries, showers, Father's Day.

What would you use them for?

Let me know and maybe I can make more templates.

- Jenny