Do you scrapbook in order?

[Binkrin]

I am working on my Disney scrapbook right now and I have run into a decision I have to make. On our last trip we went from the airport, dropped off our stuff at the hotel and went straight to Animal Kingdom because our room wasn't ready. Now my problem is if i do the hotel page before the Animal Kingdom Park page my pictures will be out of order in my head, but it really won't matter in what order we saw what when we show this to people... Does that even make sense? I guess my normal way of doing things would be: airport, getting to hotel, hotel and then moving on. That timeline does not fit this trip! I just think it would be weird if you were looking at it if you saw a park, then the hotel then the rest of the parks...

What would you do?

(sorry for the babbling )

 

[princess sparkle p]

I feel your pain. I am trying to work on my first scrap book and for the life of me cannot decide order!!! I am a very detail oriented person and putting things in order make the most sense to me, but not for the flow of the scrapbook. Sorry I cannot answer your question but I will love reading what others think….

 

[fireplug]

I tend to try and make the book flow as close as possible to the days not necessarily the time of the day. So If we start on Sunday, I try to put in Sundays pics, then Monday = Mondays pics etc. It would be way to difficult to try and do it by chronological order according to the hours. I dont keep track of stuff that closely while on vacation.


Squid

 

[jenbabe13]

I'm going to have the same issue when i go down in october, BUT.... we are switching hotels half way through.... (SSR and OKW).... so i get to go through the pain of figuring out wether i want to do both hotels together or seperate, and then if i want to do the park on the day we switch before i actually do the hotel layout... ahhhhhhhhhh.......

But for you, i would do the hotel BEFORE the park you go to. I personally think that would make more sense.

and if anyone wants to help me out, be my guest! lol.

Our plans are:

Oct 18- fly down (from mpls to detroit/from detroit to Orlando), get to ssr, and check out dtd

Oct 19- epcot

oct 20- MGM

Oct 21- transfer to OKW and go to magic kingdom

Oct 22- Animal kingdom

Oct 23- come home

i dont want to be a thread stealer, but can you guy see my pain of figuring out order for that? lol...

 

[Binkrin]

Oh, feel free, steal away! I am going to do the hotel first, it was the same day, I am not even going to worry about it...
Thanks!


As for transferring in the middle of the trip, maybe take some pictures of the "move" and make a "moving day" page. Then you can put a hotel page after that and them move on to MK. Have fun with that!

 

[mecllap]

I don't use time order much -- I group things by park or themes. I did put the hotel page with two hotels and dates in each, in the book first for Dec. trip, followed by an overview double-page of a photopass shot from each park and our itinerary -- then it was by park or activity, or character. It seems to flow pretty well. I have more than one day in a park on some pages; I then put all the pages from that park following each other (rather than skipping back and forth, since we go to them more than one time). And a couple pages of pictures with characters from this trip and past trips showing DGS at different ages. Since the trip is only over a one-two week period, doing it in exact time order doesn't seem critical -- by park or theme (i.e. characters, or "trains and monorails" -- my DGS is really into that).

I guess I may have just done pages in the order they were fun to do, then put them in the book in an order that seemed to show the essence of the trip. It's one of those "personal preference" things -- no set rules for sure.

 

[Honeybehr1]

I do my Disney books in the order which we see the parks. I would do the airport, park then hotel. But that is just me. This happened our last trip because we got there before the rooms were ready.

 

[sue]

Oh, feel free, steal away! I am going to do the hotel first, it was the same day, I am not even going to worry about it...
Thanks!


As for transferring in the middle of the trip, maybe take some pictures of the "move" and make a "moving day" page. Then you can put a hotel page after that and them move on to MK. Have fun with that!

I love the "moving day" page idea!!!! Especially since we are moving from "home #1" to "home #2!!!

THANK YOU!!!

 

[JandJ]

I've been a stickler for chronological order, but I'm getting better - maybe there's a support group? I think grouping by day is a good way to go! And put the hotel pix in first, no one will know but you and it will flow really well.

I make albums for each year and then if a big event happens that year it gets its own album (like our wedding, honeymoon, major vacations, etc.) with just a few pix in that year's album, usually with a reference to the fact that there is a whole album of that event. Yes, I'm anal retentive

We go to Disney so often that I just put it as part of the year, we don't take a lot of pix anymore. But I do have a big general Disney album from my first trip when I was little and a couple pix from each trip since - just one or two - and that's been a fun book to work on.

 

[mrp4352]

I usually do a Day label at the top of the first page for each day. Then, within the day, I group by park/hotel/meal/etc... It gives me a little more flexibility that way...

 

[MyLittlePiglet]

hmmm I do not think I have ever done an album chronlogically. I have taken 3 disney trips since I started scrapbooking. (the other trips I'd do someday Anyway the first trip was an ABC album with "extra photos" in end of album (which was/ will be a lot, not done with that album yet), album 2 was divided by park with not park photos in between, hotel, monorail, buses, character meals at resorts etc. The album I am working on now will be divided by park. However, I have also pulled out the chatacter photos to be in a section by themselves, regardless of park. We park hop a lot of I prefer to put all the park photos together regardless of what days they are from. I gues I could never recreate when we where were cause I really do not know. I guess I am thinking in 20 years it won't matter we visited Epcot on Monday night, all day Wednesday and again on Friday, just that I can see the memories like do you remember when we were at Epcot and DD ran down the road to get to chip and dale. Does it matter is was Thursday??? Not that I am saying other ways are not wonderful, just not for me.

 

[mousiemom]

The 1st page of my disney scrapbook is an introduction cover sheet-a big picture of the whole family in front of the castle and title. 2nd page of book is the itineiary for the trip that I print up. 3rd page starts when we ck into our hotel. We take a lot of pics of the room and us opening our disney bags. So, I go in order of our itineiary. With yours, I would try to put the hotel pics 1st before AK.
Happy Scrapping!

 

[phantom728]

I usually do my books in order, however for my WDW book I tended to group more in theme of the parks. Since we were there for 9 days and I took various pictures on the different days, it seemed the easiest.
Not sure what I'm going to do for this years theme yet. I'm watching the boards for all he suggestions.

There is really no right or wrong way for order. I usually see what flows the best and then go from there. People that don't scrapbook (which for me is a good majority of my friends/family), they don't know the difference and just love to look at them. They are amazed with all the embellishments out there and how the pages come together.

"It's an addiction really...I'm taking pills and getting an injection for it."

 

[pjlla]

I am SO anal about scrapping in chronological order..... especially trips. I actually check the "TIME" that my digital photos were taken, to be sure that I have scrapped them in the right order! I keep a really good detailed trip diary while we are there and I use that for my journaling... so it would be strange if the pictures were of a parade, but the journaling was about getting character autographs. Maybe some day I will be able to let loose a little, but for now, I really LIKE the way I do it!.........P

 

[sweetinmaine]

I, too,was a stickler about putting everything in chronological order until my DH sat down with me and wanted to help with a WDW trip scrapbook. He took pictures and did to them what I would never have thought of doing! He encouraged me to scrap by theme instead of by chrono order. The book was completed in a timely manner, it looked great, and I got to spend some quality time with my DH to boot!

 

[fireplug]

I, too,was a stickler about putting everything in chronological order until my DH sat down with me and wanted to help with a WDW trip scrapbook. He took pictures and did to them what I would never have thought of doing! He encouraged me to scrap by theme instead of by chrono order. The book was completed in a timely manner, it looked great, and I got to spend some quality time with my DH to boot!

DING DING DING Sounds like a winner to me!

Squid

 

[huge mickey fan]

I do chronological, theme and groups at the same time. I know crazy. Except when it comes to the hotel pictures. I usually use those as my last page because I don't always have 2 pages that need to coordinate. I go in order of visiting the parks then following the clockwise direction for each park. Example I start Magic Kingdom with Main Street then I do Adventureland. Mostly because I have to have things logical like the map of the park. Other people don't know or care how the lands flow around the castle, but it makes me much happier. I also do a whole section of characters. These are usually in order by park. I know I am a geek but what can I say?

Huge Mickey Fan