Congratulations on surving parenthood until your child's graduation! What an exciting and glorious occasion the graduation of your student is. No doubt you're planning on taking hundreds of pictures so that you'll get just the right one to hang on to forever. Graduation is a once-in-a-lifetime event for a young person and a rite of passage, so to speak, for both the student and the parents. Preserving this memory for all time is a perfectly natural desire. Are you looking for just the right way to do so? Many schools contract with photo companies so you're probably getting a lot of ideas in the mail as it is. There are so many ideas these days for preserving this memory that picking one or even two can be an overwhelming choice. You can have your graduate's image put onto anything from coffee mugs to t-shirts and just about anything you can think of in betwee. One very popular option is to have them printed out greeting-card style and made into announcements so that you can share your joy with the whole world. It's possible, though, that your tastes run more towards the traditional. Perhaps you're thinking of having your graduate's photo blown up and framed? If so, have you thought about printing his or her picture on canvas? A picture on canvas is an elegant and classy way to preserve a memory. It's the kind of thing you'd be happy to hang in your sitting room or any other room in your house. Your graduate's picture on canvas will make a fantastic keepsake.
"We love the gift our children had made for our 40 th anniversary. It looks like a real oil painting and the most amazing thing is it was created from several photos and combined into one big edited photo ready for printing it onto canvas. We are in different parts of the country and our children took individual pictures and with the great help of the company we now have all our loved ones in one picture. We framed it and it is now hanging in our living room.
Joyce and George Weinberger, Cardiff, United Kingdom