Poll Catsey Calendar

[dandysmom]

There has been some discussion as to the format of the proposed calendar: a 12 month 2009, or a 10 month 2009, or a 12 month March '09 thru Feb '10. Let's vote!

[random]

I was going to suggest the March to Feb calendar but would the calendar site be able to do it? Sorry haven't read other thread right through.

[dandysmom]

I was going to suggest the March to Feb calendar but would the calendar site be able to do it? Sorry haven't read other thread right through.

Matt said he'd look into it, for which thanks! I think this project is going to succeed!

[mattde]

I can confirm we can start the calendar from March '09 thru Feb '10 calendar

:-)

[angieh]

Thanks for confirming that Matt.

Need more votes in this poll ................ come on everyone!

(Just considering the 24 entries in the competition!)

[dandysmom]

Yes please, all the comp entrants should vote, and anyone who'd like to order one!

[dandysmom]

bump ...........

[Natalie]

I want one please x

[dandysmom]

I want one please x

Which one, Nat? Or whatever is decided upon?

Whoever voted for Other, what did you want?

[mattde]

Which one, Nat? Or whatever is decided upon?

Whoever voted for Other, what did you want?

Maybe they want a catsey t-shirt or kitty beer mats ;-)
looks like March '09 thru Feb '10 calendar is the most popular.

[Natalie]

I want one of anything. I will go with the flow x

[Tina]

March 09 to Feb 10 would be great!!!

[dandysmom]

Maybe they want a catsey t-shirt or kitty beer mats ;-)
looks like March '09 thru Feb '10 calendar is the most popular.

I did a Catsey tee a while back, Matt; but people would have had to design and order their own; don't think anyone has done so. Yes, definitely looks as if the Mar-Feb one is what most people want.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d117/dandysmom/Non%20Cat/DSCN0408.jpg

[PoshPuss]

I voted for march - feb coz i want those pics on my wall asap ! :D

[Leesy]

Yep I definatley want one which ever we go for.:D

[Elaine]

How exactly is it going to work with regards to postage and packing etc? How would people pay? Would it be profit making, i.e. with the profit being donated to rescue or something?

[mattde]

How exactly is it going to work with regards to postage and packing etc? How would people pay? Would it be profit making, i.e. with the profit being donated to rescue or something?

People will purchase the calendar directly from a website, they pay postage and packing and do the whole order process , just the same as buying something from Amazon.

I think if people dont mind we have the option to set the price, so we will be able to add say 25p on every calendar goes to Catsey to pay for hosting or donated to a rescue centre.

;)

[dandysmom]

People will purchase the calendar directly from a website, they pay postage and packing and do the whole order process , just the same as buying something from Amazon.

I think if people dont mind we have the option to set the price, so we will be able to add say 25p on every calendar goes to Catsey to pay for hosting or donated to a rescue centre.

;)

Excellent idea! I say yes to Catsey,

[Leesy]

I say yes to that as well, sounds like a good idea.:D

[calismum]

fine by me.

[dandysmom]

And they would make nice gifts for our cat loving friends ......

[mattde]

So does everyone want a 24 photo calendar , that 2 photos per page? Are they happy to let me setup the calendar?

[Leesy]

Yep I am all for that, 2 photos a page calendar will be ace:D

[mattde]

If everyone who is in the comp can email me the full size unedited image I can then start putting the calendar together.

What I need.....

Full size jpg - "Straight from camera version" I will have to crop images myself so please send the original file.

Name of cat

catsey username

email is m a t t d e b o u g e @ g m a i l . c o m

[angieh]

I really appreciate that you are happy to go to all this trouble for us Matt!

[Tina]

Matt, you're awesome! Sending it now! THANKS!

[angieh]

For some reason, I can't send to the email you gave Matt, says there is no domain name.

[mattde]

Hi, can you take the spaces out and try again.

m a t t d e b o u g e @ g m a i l . c o m

[angieh]

Ha ha - it worked! Thanks.

[mattde]

:-) good job

[dandysmom]

Matt, you're an angel to do this! Will send the uncropped version.

[dandysmom]

bump ,,,,, get your pics to Matt, please!

[mattde]

So far I have photos from


Leesy
Tina
angieh
dandysmom
Natalie

Keep them coming people ;)
Lets try to get them all in by the end of the week or sooner ;)

[suzanne118]

Do I PM you the photos? I would love to include my cats:)

[mattde]

Hi suzanne118, Do you have a photo entered into last months competition?

If so you photo will be needed for the competition entries calendar . If you didn't enter the comp then your sleeping cat photo can be put in reserve If we don't get the all 24 entries from the comp I will use it.

[dandysmom]

That seems like a fair suggestion, Matt. So, if you want your comp photo in the calendar, get it to Matt ASAP!


Remember to include cat's name and your username.

[mattde]

dandysmom can you edit this address so I don't get spammed to death , hopefully by putting spaces between letters It wont get picked up by nasty internet crawlers.

[cats' staff]

Hopefully you will get mine but a fly sneezed somewhere in East Anglia and our broadband speed has crashed to walking speed again...... :evil:

[dandysmom]

dandysmom can you edit this address so I don't get spammed to death , hopefully buy putting spaces between letters It wont get picked up by nasty internet crawlers.

Ooops, sorry, Matt; wasn't aware of that :oops: !! One of the mods has kindly removed it; thought it might be helpful so those who haven't send pics yet didn't have to go back thru the posts for it .....

[cats' staff]

Sorry but I can't get the original out- my server keeps disconnecting. I think the file is too big to squeeze through my throttled broadband- it's 5.5 meg.
Any ideas?

[mattde]

Ooops, sorry, Matt; wasn't aware of that :oops: !! One of the mods has kindly removed it; thought it might be helpful so those who haven't send pics yet didn't have to go back thru the posts for it .....

No probs, gmail picks up 99% of my spam anyways :)
Thanks mod for editing address :-)

So far I have photos from

Leesy
Tina
angieh
dandysmom
Natalie
Mags
Cats' Staff'
Juli

If you have already sent me a photo and I haven't got your name up pls PM me and I will check to see if I have missed it.

[cats' staff]

I had to reduce the size slightly and hope it has got through to you OK Matt? Can you let me know if that will do?
Computers are great until they don't do what you want them to.....

[mattde]

Sorry haven't replied to peoples emails.
I'm checking the quality of every photo as they come in.
So far all of them are of high quality, should be fine for printing on the calendar.

Just gotta get the rest of them in now.

[dandysmom]

I had to reduce the size slightly and hope it has got through to you OK Matt? Can you let me know if that will do?
Computers are great until they don't do what you want them to.....

Made me laugh: when we went to computers at work years ago the tech told us computers don't do what you WANT them to do, they do what you TELL them to do...that's been my mantra ever since..:-D !

[cats' staff]

Made me laugh: when we went to computers at work years ago the tech told us computers don't do what you WANT them to do, they do what you TELL them to do...that's been my mantra ever since..:-D !

Sadly not quite true or my computer would have been doing some rather rude things considering what I was telling it........:oops:

I don't usually use that sort of language- honest!

[PoshPuss]

Matt, I've sent you an email with an attachment too.
Posh in her 40 winks pose. Hope it's ok :D
PP.

[dandysmom]

Sadly not quite true or my computer would have been doing some rather rude things considering what I was telling it........:oops:

I don't usually use that sort of language- honest!

Oh, sorry if that wasn't clear; what she meant was if we want it to do X, but mistakenly use the command for Y ...then it does what we told it to do! I often swear at mine, also!

[angieh]

Will we be able to have a front cover on the calendar Matt?

[mattde]

So far I have photos from

Leesy
Tina
angieh
dandysmom
Natalie
Mags
Cats' Staff'
Juli
POSHPUSS
ruby - CM
Moli - Image possibly too small, I'll see what I can do.

If you have already sent me a photo and I haven't got your name up pls PM me and I will check to see if I have missed it.


Yes Angie we can have a front cover.

[calismum]

So far I have photos from

Leesy
Tina
angieh
dandysmom
Natalie
Mags
Cats' Staff'
Juli
POSHPUSS
ruby - CM
Moli - Image possibly too small, I'll see what I can do.

If you have already sent me a photo and I haven't got your name up pls PM me and I will check to see if I have missed it.


Yes Angie we can have a front cover.

Matt - realised after sent this it would be confusing - this is me - calismum!!!:oops:

[angieh]

Just a suggestion - now we do have a winner of the Forty Winks competition - perhaps Leesy's winning picture should feature on the front cover aswell as being inside?

[dandysmom]

Seems fair to me. Angie.

[Leesy]

Just a suggestion - now we do have a winner of the Forty Winks competition - perhaps Leesy's winning picture should feature on the front cover aswell as being inside?

Seems fair to me. Angie.

Thanks Angie and DM, Maxi would be really proud and honoured to appear on the frontcover:D, that is if everybody else is in agreement:D.

[mattde]

Sounds good to me , I was going to do something special with the winning photo.

So far I have photos from

Leesy
Tina
angieh
dandysmom
Natalie
Mags
Cats' Staff'
Juli
POSHPUSS
calismum
Moli - Image possibly too small, I'll see what I can do.

If you have already sent me a photo and I haven't got your name up pls PM me and I will check to see if I have missed it.

come people get ya images sent in ;)

[Tina]

Just a suggestion - now we do have a winner of the Forty Winks competition - perhaps Leesy's winning picture should feature on the front cover aswell as being inside?

Sounds like a brilliant plan! :D

[cats' staff]

Yes, the winner should be on the cover- very good idea!

[mattde]

Sounds good to me , I was going to do something special with the winning photo.

So far I have photos from

Leesy
Tina
angieh
dandysmom
Natalie
Mags
Cats' Staff'
Juli
POSHPUSS
calismum
Moli - Image possibly too small, I'll see what I can do.

If you have already sent me a photo and I haven't got your name up pls PM me and I will check to see if I have missed it.

come people get ya images sent in ;)


Anymore photos ladies :)

[mattde]

I think we will have to have a cut off date for calendar photos.

If I haven't received the photos by 11th Feb you will not be included in the calendar.

After all we want the calendar ready and delivered by 1st March.

:)

[angieh]

That's fair enough I think Matt - unfortunately it's not even half the number entered in the competition. Would you like me to send PMs to the missing people?

[mattde]

Thank you angieh, that would be perfect.

[angieh]

I have sent the following message to our missing competitors:

Tina (Mousie); tilly (Tilly); Elaine (Eva); rescuecatsrule (Dylan); pinklizzy (Imogen); yola (Myshka); laragreg (Tigger); random (Anakin); Donna (Chloe); meep (Darcy); alexgirl73 (Cooper); dinahsmum (Bently) and HappyKatz (Sage)

"Mattde has kindly agreed to organise a calendar including all the pictures in the Forty Winks photo competition. The calendar is going to run from 1st March 09 to end of Feb 10.

If you want your cat's picture included you must send a copy of the photo to Mattde by February 11th - the cut-off date.

If for any reason you would prefer your photo is not included, please let either me or Matt know.

Hurry - time is running out!

Do hope you want to join in.

Angie"

I hope the mods don't accuse me of spamming. I purposefully did not include your email address Matt and hope that people will contact you direct to ask.

Elaine is away from her computer at the moment and I would expect that she will not be able to reply, which is a great shame.

[dinahsmum]

Errr, sorry I haven't responded to anything in this thread. I read its content early on, decided it wasn't for me and haven't returned to read it since. Sorry.
Now, how can I say 'no thanks' without sounding like granny grump? Just - no thanks but I hope your project works out as you wish. Still sounds a bit grumpy to me - I hope it doesn't to you.

[angieh]

Thanks for letting us know DM - I won't comment on your possible "grumpiness" - I had looked forward to a whole month of looking at the lovely Bentley, but ah, well!

[Tina]

Thanks for the message Angie.......but I already sent mine LOL! :lol:

So if there aren't 24 pics, how is the calendar going to be set up.....not 2 pics per page. But if there's more than 12 it can't be 1 pic per page either lol :?

[angieh]

Sorry Tina, just re-checked Matt's list and you're there!

[dandysmom]

Thanks for the message Angie.......but I already sent mine LOL! :lol:

So if there aren't 24 pics, how is the calendar going to be set up.....not 2 pics per page. But if there's more than 12 it can't be 1 pic per page either lol :?

I'd assume that some pages would have one pic and others two .......

Angie, thanks for doing that!

Shame about Bentley .....

[mattde]

If we get 22 we could have one page dedicated to the winning photo.

[pinklizzy]

I've e-mailed mine, sorry I've taken so long! Thanks for the PM Angie!

[mattde]

Morning all, I'm starting the calendar today sometime. If we have anymore photos to be added pls send them over.

Many thanks

Once I have made the calendar I will purchase the first one and check that the quality is good and its worth buying. Don't want everyone to hate me if it sucks.

Once I have my copy and I'm happy with it I will post the link to where people can purchase it from.

Keep ya fingers crossed :-)

[smudgley]

Hello. I haven't read any of this thread until now :oops: not sure why :oops:
So to save me trawling through 7 pages, can anyone fill me in on what the calender is and all about it please? :oops: ...pretty please?

[mattde]

Hi Kelly, did you have a photo in the 40 winks comp?
If you did send it over.
If you didn't send over the best sleeping cat photo you have taken and i'll see if i can fit it in the calendar.

straight from camera photo is best.

regards

Matt

[laragreg]

Hi matt, not been online for a while so Ive just got your email 15 mins ago and I sorry to say I can't find my pic of tigger.
very sorry

[mattde]

Dam, little tip tho.
If you install Picasa 3 it will search your computer for all photos and hopefully find the photos you have misplaced.
I find it very good software, and its free.

Matt

[smudgley]

hi Matt. I didn't enter the comp. I'm rubbish at entering the comps. :oops:
I'll have a look at what photos I've got.....or am I too late now?

[mattde]

Image submission is now closed.

[dandysmom]

I can hardly wait to see the calendar! Thanks, Matt for all you've done!

[mattde]

No probs , the link is in this post
http://www.catsey.com/showthread.php?t=31565