Whingeing, mostly

[pensnest]

Oh my, but I'm being productive today. It's all in the Terrible Power Of Deadlines... we have a summer concert in a month's time, and I have been frantically producing tickets (4 varieties) and posters (6 varieties so far, two more might be required), and it's only half-past ten. But now I have to get to the coffee shop in town to see if they'll sell, and then produce a bunch of tickets and deliver them to the ticket secretary and (possibly) the coffee shop, and post tickets and poster masters to the charity involved in Friday's performance, and *then* get a newsletter written and printed and a ticket order form designed, written and printed. The brats will just have to starve (or, more probably, consume whatever oddments there are in the fridge, as is their wont).

Bah. I hate having to be organised. I'd much rather be making icons or polishing off a story or beta reading. Incidentally, if you have not yet discovered luxshine's 'secret agent' stories, the first one is here and you should read. I've been beta-reading so I get sneak previews, heh.

Comments

[abishag.livejournal.com]

Hi there! Could I pick your brains as to how to produce tickets?
I have a layout - but am trying to fathom how to duplicate them across a whole sheet. Can one use the label-printing option and then print onto card?
Or what?

Also, you wouldn't know anyone who might be willing and able to contribute something on Sat. October 7th to my Rainbow Concert - we're trying to finish putting together a medley of (hopefully) colour or rainbow themed stuff. And have rather more
willingness in theory "if I'm around" (for very understandable reasons) than actual promises at this point.

[pensnest]

Producing tickets... I set up a template (a long time ago) on my beloved but now defunct Adobe PageMaker, and used it to do eight-on-a-sheet. I'd ask what program you use, but as (a) I'm on a Mac and (b) I abhor MSWord and all its minions, I probably wouldn't be any the wiser!

I find the easiest way is to start by setting out guidelines on your page so that you can see where to put the tickets to get eight (or however many) onto the page, all the same size. Then when you have fiddled with one ticket, it should be easy to copy and paste that one into each of the eight spots. (There's probably a way, in InDesign, to do this efficiently, but I do it infrequently enough to find that the laborious but easy way works for me.) Then, if you have details to alter (dates, for a run, and times, for a matinée), make a new page, paste in one copy, alter the details and c & p as before.

I would imagine that a label-printing option ought to do it, but I've never actually tried one. Good luck...

Incidentally, we find, at HHTC, that tickets are best on paper rather than card - because it's easier to keep them all together in a small box, and they fit better into envelopes. Also, cheaper! Perhaps it depends how grand you want them to be, and also, how readily your photocopier or printer will deal with card...

As for your concert, hmm. It occurs to me that one of the items we're doing at present is a many-part version of Autumn Leaves, which begins 'The falling leaves drift by the window/The autumn leaves of red and gold'. How would that do? If, that is, I could corrall a group of 8-12 of us in suitable voices to come and sing it (which I dare not guarantee). Do you have an accomplished pianist on tap?

If you would like to email me a notice/poster with details of what you're looking for, I'll announce it at Thursday's rehearsal and put it on our board.

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the icon banner wins. Lovely icons you made.

Having to be organized is something I'm not very good at. I can never remember where the things I need were put.

[pensnest]

Thank you.

I can only ever manage to be organised about one thing at a time - whatever is top-of-mind gets done, but anything else...

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

The only thing I have even somewhat organized is my files on my computer. If it's something I actually have my hands on, there's no telling where I'd find it when I needed it again. lol