Think first, of all the graduates favorite milestones over the years. Did she excel in sports, or other activities such as academics, or a traveling camp – every graduate is different. What were her proudest achievments? Start with a few ideas, gather your photos and work from there. For a larger collage, pick a feature photo and work down to younger photos. Most people enjoy an over the years assortment of photos, from past to present. And if you include family members – always use a balance. When it comes time to start your theme, pick out a background that suits the graduates personality best. If it is not a surprise gift, ask the graduate themselves to pick it out – it will be true keepsake if the theme was planned to their liking.

Many graduation parties are based on school colors and/or the graduates favorite colors.  Canvas wraps are a fun and creative way to showpiece those memories, but traditional framed prints are popular too. Be sure to give your framer some time for matting and framing, so your picture is ready in time for the party. Collages make a great conversation piece for a graduation party, and when the party is over a wonderful keepsake for your wall! We are here to help with your collage planning, feel free to call with any questions about your special celebration, or about the website. 402-910-3357 or leave a message in contacts.

Happy Graduation Party!

Well its official, the holidays are once again upon us.
Christmas is a wonderful time to reflect on your special memories.
What does Christmas mean to you and your family?
I would love to hear your favorite story!
Christmas to me is my most thankful time of all. Thankful for my family, and all the sacrifices the good lord has made for us.
This year will bring back many holiday memories.
My son Jackson turns eighteen this year.
He was supposed to be a Christmas baby, but arrived earlier than expected before Christmas.
They always say December babies get short changed,
but not my son. He never complained about his rushed birthday as we moved on to Christmas.
“I can party for the whole month!” he would say with a smile.
He made me laugh.  Always stopped by Santa’s house to say hello. “Santa is a December boy too.” he would always say with pride.

He always loved to help scoop snow with his dad. Hoping he would have enough to build a snowman.

As I look back on those past Christmas memories,
one thing is for sure.
I am thankful for the eighteen years I had with him.

What do you give a boy who turns eighteen for Christmas?
You give them your respect and their freedom to move on.
Thanks for the memories son.

Happy Holidays

Happy fall to everyone. It’s a wonderful time of year, the weather is perfect as the trees get ready to turn their beautiful colors.
Now is a good time to get a jump start on planning your special gifts before the holiday rush takes over.
October brings a early around the corner rush of the holidays, and before you know it the long lines and  planning that perfect gift awaits you.

Planning a custom collage in advance will offer many benefits. This will give you time to include your families ideas, and develop a well balanced design that includes everyone.
The worry will be behind you , and you can enjoy your holidays with that  gift done and tucked away. And what a special gift you will have for that loved one, when the time arrives.
A custom collage is a great way to cherish your favorite memories and share them with the family.
It will be the best coversation piece that you
will ever hang on the wall!
Please join Time in a Treasure on Facebook and Twitter, were I will keep you informed with updates on specials and new creations.

If you ever have questions or need advice on your collage please feel free to call me. I want your custom collage experience to be an enjoyable one  for you and your family.

Happy Autumn!

Betty Osborn
Time in a Treasure
1-402-910-3357
http://www.timeinatreasure.com 

Well summer is coming to an end fast. School starts next week, and the time has arrived again for our annual Columbus Days.
I come from a small town much smaller than my present home of Columbus, and I have always been a big believer in hometown traditions.
Every year from August 18th-21st is our Columbus Days here in Columbus, and thanks to our local chamber, every year it keeps getting better. Discover the Food, The Fun and The Music. This is one event me and my family have always enjoyed, and this will be my second year of showcasing my collages in Frankfort Square and meeting people. I will have my new collage ideas, prints and canvas wraps with some great promotions. Stop by and say hello.
This event will become a great tradition for Time in a Treasure.
There are many wonderful events in addition to the market place in the square,the annual Artful Party,  Duck Derby, BBQ Classic, the Bands, the Performaces, Races,  and this year
Miss America is coming to visit too.  I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but one thing I believe in is supporting your hometown, now matter how big or small.
Show up, invest in your community, and you’ll find the rewards will be overwhelming.
Because after all, it’s YOUR hometown.

Happy August
Betty Osborn

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The Lighter Side of Tennis……..
by Betty Osborn

Every year the same question comes up. “I sure hope the coach does not make me play doubles” says my teenage son.
Singles is so much better.
At one time in my life, when I was young and foolish, I would have agreed. But now that my tennis game has come full circle, I know better.

Everybody wants  to try to excel at singles, sure, but what young people don’t know is doubles is so much more rewarding.
How did I come to this conclusion? – was it because I had to age and slow down, or am I late in finding out the golden rule?
A little of both. Four people on a tennis court makes for a very exciting and rewarding experience.
It’s true – more people want to watch singles than doubles. And if you watch a grand slam on TV, it is rare to find that doubles match without being there in person.

Today I was at a Tennis Tournament and I watched four 18-year-old boys play an outstanding doubles match. It was exciting just to watch.
I wish my teenage son would have been there, I could have proved my point. Maybe.
For years I loved to play singles, then one day I was fortunate to find a doubles partner, who was a singles player like me. Together, we realized one thing.
Four people on a tennis court makes for a very exciting and rewarding experience. What do I mean?
singles is a lonely game, nobody to back you up, nobody to share the court with, and twice as much ground to cover with narrower lines. No socialization, no teamwork, just you.
If you are talented  enough to survive that is wonderful, but if you go down fast, it can be hard on the ego, and your body as well.
Both are exciting games, but doubles takes more thinking power in the long run. Sometimes it reminds me of a reality chess game, always planning the next move.
Too bad more young people don’t want to play it.

What do you think- doubles or singles?
Would love to hear your story.

Happy rest of summer.

Betty Osborn
Time in a Treasure
Custom Artistic Collages for the Entire Family
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Most parents display patience and perspective with other people’s kids, but with their own children, patience and perspective are lost or non-existent. Subsequently, they display this loss with often-regrettable words or actions. “I can’t believe you did that” or “You are embarrassing me” are parental statements that speak of their loss of patience. Kicking the dirt, rolling the eyes, looking away and ignoring their child are often completed parental actions, when kids do not perform up to their parents’ expectations. Unfortunately, it only takes one or two of these inappropriate words or displays to shape a child’s future in sports. Often, unbeknownst to adults, these negative incidents start to decrease children’s desire to play sports.

Obviously, everyone has different levels of patience but it something that parents can improve upon with the proper sports perspective. Having the best sport perspective can help parents to develop and display the necessary patience so that kids have the positive sporting experience they deserve.

A good, positive youth sports perspective begins with the following understandings:

1. Sport skill proficiency is difficult and gets more difficult as an athlete moves up the sports ladder.

2. Just because a sport skill appears easy, especially on TV, does not mean it is easy.

3. Just because the parent were good at something does not automatically make their child good at it.

4. Players, who choose not to practice, are usually not having fun playing that sport. The lack of fun could be because
a) they are not having success 
b) coaches and/or parents do not know how to make practice fun 
c) they just are not into it for reasons beyond a parent’s control

5. Pushing kids to practice more usually kills any chance that they will like the sport more down the line. Suggesting they practice and helping them understand that good results only come with practice is OK and necessary, though.

6. Players will not automatically be able to do something just because you tell them to or just because you point out what they are doing wrong. Their muscle memory must change through fundamental repetition.

7. Using words that describe the action is better than indicting a player them self. For example, “Your timing is off”–is better than saying, “You will never be any good if you keep doing it that way.”

8. Negative actions and facial expressions are as detrimental as words.

9. People, who display patience when working with kids, generally develop patient athletes who understand it takes time to be successful.

10. Expectations should be reasonable. Watching for and pointing out gradual signs of athletic improvement, even when results are not there, displays the patience that pays off in the end.

11. Long-range goals are better than short-range goals.

Many of these are common sense points that most parents feel like they adhere too. As mentioned, the problem is that most parents do not realize that their demeanor, words and actions change when dealing with their own kids in sports. It takes a lot of will power to change or to adhere to these suggestions.

At timeinatreasure.com we offer several ways to capture your favorite summer sporting memories.
Tennis Court of Life, Golf Course of Life, Vintage Baseball & Softball.
It’s a fun way for mom and dad to enjoy those proud moments, with their favorite sport.
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About the Author

“Playing major league baseball – sweet; helping kids – sweeter.”
Jack Perconte helps kids and their parents through the challenging world of youth sports. He shares his playing, coaching and parenting experiences in his books, The Making of a Hitter and Raising an Athlete: How to Instill Confidence, Build Skills and Inspire a Love of Sport. Learn more at
http://www.jackperconte.com

Parents are always looking for a good sport for their child and more and more parents are starting to turn tennis as the perfect sport for their child.  The benefits of tennis go far beyond simply learning good sportsmanship skills, it also goes deep into learning good skills in terms of eye coordination and even hand eye coordination just to mention a few.

Deciding if tennis is the right sport for your child is sometimes easy and at other times a bit more complicated, but you should always take a cue from your child as you make the final decision. The first step should be deciding if your child enjoys playing with large groups of people such as with football or soccer or if they prefer to play solo sports.

While tennis is more of a solo sport while he/she is competing against one opponent if playing singles or playing with a partner against two opponents, rather than an entire field like many team sports involves.  Your child should be relatively coordinated.  Tennis is said to be the most difficult sport due to the fact that you must hit a moving ball with your racquet.

Unlike, golf where the ball is stationary when you make contact with it.  Many children enjoy the challenge of being able to hit the moving ball while running on the tennis court.  Some take this as the perfect time to get started really improving their skills and technique in order to protect themselves from the ball.    You should also look at the benefits that tennis can provide.  It is a great form of exercise that allows your child to move around the tennis court a very great deal thus providing them with plenty of exercise.  At the same time, it is also possible to practice improved hand eye coordination, teamwork skills and even learn how to make quick decisions as a split second.  A child who has issues making a decision is generally not cut out for tennis, however a child that is able to just jump in and make a fast decision will generally do very well at tennis.

Another benefit of tennis is the ability to have your child practice on their own.  While many sports need a partner to interact with or numerous other people in order to actually practice, you can practice your tennis strokes  by hitting on a solid wall.  A tennis ball and racquet can allow your child to easily practice almost anywhere, even at your home.  This allows your child to have the time to practice that they need which can be a huge help if you are looking for the best sport possible that will not potentially damage your property.

For parents who are looking for a competition sport tennis makes a wonderful choice, you can choose just how many or how few competitions you are comfortable with your child participating in and ultimately they can even play in the Olympics or as a professional if they are skilled enough when they get older.  This can allow you to consider that tennis is a great sport because it has a serious future ahead that is very much possible for virtually anyone to learn.

At timeinatreasure.com we offer several ways to capture your favorite summer sporting memories. Tennis, Golf, Baseball & Softball.  It’s a fun way to enjoy those proud moments.
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When a couple gets married, most people take a ton of pictures. You’ll want photos of everything – the people, the newlyweds, their parents, the dressed up dog in the tuxedo, everything. The question is, what exactly are they for and what are you supposed to do with them all? You could do several things with them, once you’ve gotten them all back from the your wedding photographer that you hired to take them. You can put them in a scrapbook, or add them to an album or a set of albums. You can have the really good ones printed up into cards or onto canvas prints for your home, or even something as large scale as a wall mural made from a collage of photos. Anything you do with your wedding photos to display them is a good thing.

Scrapbooking is a wonderful thing. All you need is some glue or tape to paste stuff in your books, pretty sheets of durable paper and maybe some cool stickers and labels for your pages. Then you put them in whatever order you like, whether it be chronological or by photograph type. For example, you would put all the dinner photos together, and all the photos of the actual wedding party together, et cetera. If you aren’t crafty or making a scrapbook doesn’t appeal to you, you could simply put them together in a set of matching albums. This is a good way to keep them all together and at hand for someone that wants to see them.

If you are interested in keeping your wedding photos on a large scale or perhaps interested in distribution, then you might get some canvas prints from them. Canvas prints are prints of the pictures that are printed onto the same kind of canvas that paintings are done on, and they are a great way to display the pictures that your Philadelphia wedding photographer took on the best day of your life. You can use different websites to do this, and you can order all kinds of things with your wedding pictures on it – coffee mugs, greeting cards and calendars, even blown up acrylic versions of your photo to hang along with your canvas prints.

If you are interested in a long term project, take all of your photos that you get from your wedding photographer and make them into a collage . This is where you take your pictures and combine them all together on the same wall. You can have a nice border if you like, and you can use any of the pictures that you like. A great way to start is to get a larger print of the couple and place it in the middle of the wall that you’d like to start your collage on. Then place different parts of the wedding around it in a circle – perhaps you could group the bachelor party pictures and tie them to the pictures of the best man giving the speech. Either way, this is a wonderful way to display the photos, bluntly arranged on the walls for the whole world to see.

Whatever wedding photographer you choose to use, ask them what they would do with their pictures in your case. They might be able to give you some ideas and be able to point you in a direction that you would have ordinarily thought of to use your photos. There are so many things that you could do that you might already know, but if you needed some help it wouldn’t be a big deal to ask some one. If you don’t want to display your precious memories, you can get an album and if you don’t want them to collect dust, then you can put them out for the world to see. There are a million ideas for photos that are so easy anyone can do them.

Author: David Landes

At timeinatreasure.com we offer beautiful wedding and anniversary templates, to create that custom collage. Floral backgrounds, elegant and wedding cake. our wedding canvas wraps are simple and make a unique gift. And our traditional prints are a beautiful way to showcase your special day into one memory. See our galleries for details.

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About the Author
David Landes specializes in internet marketing – turning your website from a static online brochure to a successful lead generation tool.

Looking for affordable family vacations that will not break the bank or cause a protest from the young ones? This is easy to accomplish if you follow these tips.

Find Things Close To Home

Many people look into affordable family vacations without seeing what is close by. Often times you do not need to go very far to feel that you have left behind your ordinary life. Find a place in your state that you have not been to and center your vacation around that. This will save the time and money of flying or driving far. It can also be really fun to find places close by where you can return year after year for family fun and escape.

Choose Lodging Carefully

When looking at where to stay look beyond the cost. Find somewhere that is central to the areas you will be going to, has reasonable food options, and activities for the kids. One of the greatest money saver can be a place with a swimming pool for kids who like to swim. They can swim for hours, with the benefits of being free and burning off restless energy. Some also have basketball courts, free movies, or accessible walking trails. Another option to consider is choosing a hotel designed for business men, where there is a kitchen and larger common areas, such as a regular sized dining table.

Go As A Group

Have friends who are also on the search for affordable family vacations? Go as a group. A great way to do this is to rent a condo or house and agree on who will pay for what This option works best if you know the friends or family that you will be going with, since there is nothing worse than being stuck on vacation in an uncomfortable situation. The benefit to taking this approach is that you may be able to afford to go somewhere that otherwise would not have been an option because of cost.

Look For Packages

Affordable family vacations are often easier to plan with package deals. You can find packages for things like transportation and local attractions. If you will be going to a big city where there are many museums and landmarks, it is worth looking into a deal where one price is paid for admission to a group of them. Some package deals have to be purchased in advance and are limited by an expiration date, so be sure to double check if this is the case before heading out.

Go To See Family

Maybe you have parents or siblings in another state. Even if you have thought of this as an affordable family vacation, you may have vetoed the idea due to it not sounding fun. This does not have to be the case. Instead of focusing your vacation around being with extended family, you can focus on the trip there and back, and only stay for a couple of days. Just let the family members know that you will be in the area and would like to visit for a day or two. Then you can plan for a slow trip out and back, where you can stop at some fun sites along the way.

These are examples of affordable family vacations that exist. There is no reason that affordable has to mean boring, instead it can be just as fun and exciting as an expensive trip.

At timeinatreasure.com we offer our special Vacation Memories category with five colorful backgrounds to preserve those special memories.
Make your vacation a lasting one with a custom collage.
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