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Get creative with your sports photos — make photo day planners, posters, banners and more on Lifephoto.com
Every parent loves to capture their child’s great moments in soccer, baseball, football, swimming and other sports. But do more than let the photos sit inside your camera. Upload them to lifephoto.com and see how many ways you can share and enjoy them with family, friends, coaches and teammates. Click on each picture below to find out how easy it is to upload your photos and make these personalized sports-themed photo gifts.
Personalize school day planners with photos and important dates
Lifephoto.com, an online digital photo gift store and digital photo gallery, offers a host of photo gift ideas for back-to-school lockers and dorms. 
Among the products of special interest to students are photo notebooks, magnetic locker calendars, dry erase boards, photo day planner/organizers and photo wall calendars.
Photo Day Planners/School Day Organizers are a Lifephoto Specialty
“Our photo day planners are, without exception, the best value for a customized daily planner that can be easily made online,” explains Lifephoto president, Eric Hegwood. “Our photo quality is excellent because our Lifephoto products are processed in our own professional photo lab – the same lab used by professional photographers across the country.”
Lifephoto’s 
can be filled with up to 54 photos and the customer can add date reminders for homework due dates, upcoming tests, field trips and other school related activities. Daily planners are spiral bound and come in two convenient sizes. These are great for students and for the busy mom who plans her time around the school year.
Photo wall calendars 
are another popular back-to-school organization tool that is available in two sizes and can include 12 to 18 photos.
All Lifephoto wall calendars and photo day planners can begin or end on any date, not just the traditional January-December calendar year. This means students or busy moms can begin their calendars and day planners in August or September to follow their school year.
Keeping a Family Organized is Easier with a Day Planner Customized to Your Schedule
A working mom who runs a house and home-based businesses while tending to the children, their schoolwork and sports activities reviews the Lifephoto day planner she made. She wanted a daily planner that begins before the school year and takes her right through to the next August. Here’s what she has to say. Link to her full review.
Make it a Wedding Planner, Vacation Planner, School Year Calendar and Organizer
No need to follow the traditional calendar year when you create a personal photo day planner on Lifephoto.com. Begin your year with any important date — or start it a year ahead of an important date. Wedding day planners make wonderful gifts for the bride-to-be! Fill your planner with memorable photos.
- Wedding Day. How cool to give your fiance, daughter or future daughter-in-law a day planner that begins on the wedding day! Or a daily planner for the wedding that begins one year before the wedding!
- Back-to-School Planner. Begin your daily photo planner in July or August and build it around the important dates of the school year. Great gift for teachers. Handy for moms and high school or college students.
- Valentine’s Day. How about giving your sweetheart a custom day planner that begins on Valentine’s Day — with photos of fun times together throughout!
- Birthday. How appropriate to give someone a photo day planner that begins on the date they were born. Show them how important that day was to both of you!
- Anniversary. Even though you’ve been married awhile, give your spouse a photo day planner of your lives together — that begins on the date your were married. How romantic!
A custom day planner is easy and quick to make on lifephoto.com. 
Add notes on special dates, reminders, personal messages of love. Be creative. Have fun. Photo day planners are available in two sizes with 13 to 54 images — you decide. That special person will love it! Great for Christmas gifts, too!
Magnetic Locker Calendars Available in 20 Photo Formats from Lifephoto
They’re new from Lifephoto just in time for back-to-school. 
Magnetic calendars that are a perfect fit for school lockers. Pick a great photo your student will love and quickly make a custom locker calendar.
Sized 8″ x 30″, these locker calendars fit well into any locker, but work well on most any metal surface.
Order a locker calendar for every student in your family.
Then check out all the great back-to-school organization products from Lifephoto.
Get Your Students Organized with Calendar Tools They’ll Love to Use
Get them organized. Help them stay organized. Here are three organization and scheduling tools that will make daily school scheduling more fun:
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Dry Erase Boards.
Notes and reminders will keep a student on track.
Marker boards fit conveniently in any locker or dorm door and come with an erasable marker that sticks to the board with Velcro tabs. Each board is printed on metallic paper, which gives it a liquid-like finish and subtle reflection. Choose from a variety of designs and include one or more of your student’s favorite photos. 8″x18″ dry erase board — custom designed by your — is just $18. -
Wall Calendars.
Start your student’s calendar with the month of August — the time they need to really begin getting organized for school. Incorporate special dates, birthdays, reminders, personal messages and school events into each month of the school year.
Add one or more great photos to each month. Two calendar sizes are available — choose from 12- or 18-month calendar formats. $14.95 to $21.35. -
Daily Planners.
The ultimate student organizer he or she will take with them everywhere! Here’s another opportunity to make school organization fun — add great photos and lots of notes, reminders or silly comments throughout the year.
Two day planner sizes are available and choose from 13, 27 or 54 photos that can be included. Pricing for a student’s ultra-cool personal daily planner starts at $21.
Get started now. See these and other back-to-school organization tools on Lifephoto.com.
Start your child’s school memory book on the first day of Kindergarten
If you’ve got a youngster starting Kindergarten or first grade, you’ll want to capture 
that first day in photos. With a little forethought and planning, you can get the photos that will tell a terrific story about your child’s first day of school. Here are a few tips to help you get the best shots and give you plenty to work with when you put together that memory book or booklet:
Start Photos at Home
- Get up earlier than normal. Allow plenty of time for photos.
- Lay out the child’s clothes. Snap a photo of the outfit or as the child chooses his/her clothing item.
- Try a Mirror Shot. Position the child in front of a full-length mirror. Stand behind the child, but out of the mirror’s view. Snap a picture of your child looking into the mirror.
- Got a stairway? Stand at the bottom of the stairs and shoot a few pictures of your child coming down the steps. Perhaps have him/her put one hand on the railing.
- Breakfast. Every kid has to start the first day of school with a good breakfast! Snap a few shots around the table. Be sure to include some closeups — maybe some humorous shots as the child “stuffs” some Cheerios into his mouth or some other silly thing that happens.
- Packing the Backpack. Maybe grab a couple of shots as your child checks his/her backback and adds a few last items. A vertical closeup is good.
- Got a Dog or Cat? How cute would a photo be of your child kissing or hugging the dog good-bye?
- Ready to Leave. When your child is all set, backpack and all, have him/her stand on the front porch or next to the car for one last shot before leaving for school.
Photos at School
When you shoot these photos depends on your school’s first-day procedure. If your school offers a pre-first-day visit at which the children meet the teacher, sit in a desk and generally get familiar with the classroom environment, you might prefer to get a lot of photos there. Then capture what you can on the actual first day of school. Here are some ideas:
- Get a shot of the front of the school. You can take this one after you’ve gotten your child settled in the classroom.
- Walking up to the door. Grab a shot or two of your child alone or with other children. Call to him/her to shoot you a quick wave and grab that shot.
- Your Child’s Teacher. Be sure to snap a photo of the teacher on the first day of school. If possible, as she greets your child.
- The Classroom. Take a few photos around the classroom. Maybe the desk in which your child will sit.
- The Chalkboard. Any notes on the chalkboard for the first day of school? Grabg a photo of that.
- The Bulletin Board. Teachers usually have these spiffed up for the first day of school. Snap a couple of photos.
- The Coatroom. If there’s a coatroom, check it out to see if there are coats/backpacks hanging on hooks — might be a cool shot.
- Go home.
- School Pick-up. Try to capture your child as he/she walks out the door from school on that first day.
- New Friends. How about a shot of your child with his/her new friends as they come out of school?
- After-School Snack. Taking your child for an ice cream cone or snack?Grab a photo to help wrap up the day in photos. Or if you go straight home, snap a shot of after-school snacktime at home.
Back Home. Try to catch a cute shot of your child walking up to the door at home — maybe the shirttails are hangout or the backback is dragging. Maybe your child is warmly greeting the dog after a long first day at school. Watch for cool photo opps that wrap up that first day!
Then What?
Upload your photos to lifephoto.com and start working on a memory book or booklet. Once your photos are uploaded, you can work on the project at your leisure, saving drafts online as you go. When your project is complete — and even before you have it printed — you can see an online flipping-page version of it. Better yet, you can e-mail that version to all your friends and relatives right from the lifephoto.com site — at no charge to you! How cool is that?!!
Post Back-to-School Photos Directly to Facebook, Twitter or your Blog
Lifephoto also gives you a lot of options for sharing those precious photos. Check it out now!
Start your Lifephoto daily planner any month of the year. Base it on your life’s activities.
Think a calendar or day planner has to begin on January 1? Not at all. Often it makes more sense to structure it based on your lifestyle. And don’t forget, you can include all the photos you love on your day planner pages.
Teachers, Students and Moms
Your lifestyle year most likely begins in August. Start your day planner on August 1 and be sure to include all the important dates you’ll need to remember throughout the year: holidays, teacher’s convention, field trips, spring break, last day of school!
Brides-to-Be, Mothers of the Bride
The biggest day of your life (or your daughter’s life) begins on the wedding day. Two suggestions:
- Start your day planner a full year before the wedding month. Get all the important dates, appointments and decision dates loaded into your pages.
- Start a day planner for the bride beginning with her wedding month.
Check out the day planner options that Lifephoto offers you.
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