How do you keep in touch with all those nutty relatives when you're no longer together? You could set up a family Web site, start a family charity or arrange family members into pen pal teams. This reunion memento, however, lets you spend the entire next year with your relatives (figuratively, of course). It's a family scrapbook calendar.

To make the calendar, first craft a grid of days for each of the upcoming 12 months (you can do this by hand or by computer or use an inexpensive store-bought calendar). Then gather important family dates and mark them on the grid with words, symbols or pictures. For example, if Uncle Pete's birthday is on June 4th, you may want to take that childhood photo he brought to the reunion and shrink it down on a color copier, then paste it on.

Next, gather visual memories of the reunion: pictures from the dinner table cameras, formal shots, an artistic square of the paper tablecloth or quotes and jokes from the weekend. Choose 12 of these (or more, if you want a montage) and create a facing page for each month. The last page should be an updated list of family names, addresses and telephone numbers.

Copy the scrapbook at a copy center, then have them bind it (for ease of use, we recommend a spiral binding). Send a finished copy to each reunion guest, and we guarantee they'll be counting the days until the next big gathering.