How many books????

[welovemickey]

I'm fairly new to scrapping and have found myself getting overwhelmed and confused. I want to make a scrapbook for each of my three kids. My question is, do most people have scrapbooks for each child and then a scrapbook for family things? A woman at our LSS said that she thinks most have a book for their children and that's it - I asked her where does she put family memories and she said they "split them up".

What does everyone here do?

 

[My~Rumbly~Tumbly]

Well thus far, I have an album for each of my children. For the most part, the photos in each are different, but if I have a good photo of the two of them together, I will put one (duplicate) in each of their albums. I really have not done a family album yet, but need to do that. I have decided that our vacation albums would be family albums (I originally had planned to break the pictures up and put in each childs album. Instead I will do one big vacation album and then do a couple of page layouts in their own books). It's a hard one. I have just been thinking about myself and how I am about my photos. I would definitively be green if my sibling ended up with a family album that was loaded with my childhood pictures (pictures that I did not have). However, it is possible to spend the money and have 12x12 copies made at copy store. For that reason, I did separate albums to that each child will have their own album someday.

And SOMEDAY when/if I ever get caught up, I will go back through my books and pick out my most favorite pictures. I've decided that the family book (or the book for ME) will have in it my most favorite picture of the kids and family.

 

[lisaschu]

At this time I have three step kids and my first child on the way. Since we do not have many pictures of the kids when they were young I've decided to do an album for their high school graduation present. It will cover their growing up years, trips, etc. In addition, I have a special interest album for each child (sports, theater, etc.) However, with my baby on the way, I plan to have a separate album for him/her. Then I have a separate family album which covers holidays and weekends away. If we take extended vacations, that requires a separate album. I also have a separate Christmas album (double page spread per year). Then I have separate albums for wedding/honeymoon and trips that my husband and I take. At this point I'm not worrying about how to split up the family albums between the kids. I figure the years will play out and I will figure it out before I die. In the meantime, they know the only ones they can take when they move from home is their special interest and their graduation album. The rest will eventually be divvied up.

Lisa

 

[MerryPoppins]

I have an album for each of my kids that is a work in progress. They are 15 and 11, but I only do a few pages a year in them. The rest goes in family albums, although I've been considering copying my son's Scout pages and putting them in a Scout album.

 

[etwinchester]

I have a family album and a seperate one for my 2 year old little girl. Most of the pictures goes into the family album. In her album, I put pictures of her playing outside, with bubbles, visiting elmo, playing with other children, etc... Just special moments of her. She is starting nursery school next week so I will be starting a seperate album for that as well.

Hope this helps. Be sure to keep us informed on what you decide to do.

 

[Spinning]

I have albums for each of my kids. I get doubles of everything in put my pictures in a sleeve album. SOmeday maybe I will scrap them for myself but I doubt it!
I do special album also for us, Christmas and trips.

 

[zakatak]

I am new here but not to scrapbooking (been doing that for 3 years). I have a FAMILY album, one for each child (3 children), and each child will also have a school album (K-12). I also have a Disney album (started to be a vacation album, but Disney took it over!!). What do I scrap in each???

Family gets small trips, day events (zoo, waterfalls, etc), holidays, group pages (all three sibs), etc...

Each kid's album gets holidays (mostly them but with some sibs), highlights of Spring and Summer, their birthdays, and special highlight pages (like dance, or yogurt mess, or blueberry pie mess, or picking up and throwing worms in the rain, etc...)

Each school album only has three pages per grade, covering school pictures, field trips, any pics from the school year and 8 pieces of artwork/report cards/notes from teachers.

Disney speaks for itself, right?

Now, the hard part is adding the Disney trip to each of their albums (they get two - four pages of just their highlights). Also small getaway trips get added too (if the pictures warrent it). So, sometimes there is duplication of pictures, but never of layouts. I want each of their albums to highlight THEM, with pics of siblings and family interspersed, and the FAMILY album to highlight FAMILY.

Of course, will I ever give these albums up? hahahahahahaha



Take care and happy scrappin'
Karen

 

[Lainy67]

FINISHED ALBUMS

an album for each child - one through age 5 (she is 10) and the other through age 2 (she is only 3 now).

I have a vacation album that covers 4 years of vacations (no long ones... all were really short).

One album that is a cruise my hubby and I went on.

CURRENT WORKS IN PROGRESS -

Ski trip album from earlier this year

DISNEY autograph album

DISNEY trip report album

FUTURE WORKS ALREADY PLANNED OUT

Marriage / delayed honeymoon (by 4 years) at Disney / Anniversary trip in New Orleans

7 x 7 books of each girl with their "official" photos they had taken at daycare / school. I will continue this until they are out of school

FUTURE WORKS NOT EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT MUCH

Can't decide if I want to do yearly books, and continue the books through the years for the girls, or just start yearly books starting with this year and maybe have special books for events when they come up. I am confused about this.

AND DON"T FORGET MOM"S BOOKS

Mom wants me to help her do at least 3 heritage books for hers and dads families, and that doesn't even include all the photos of our family over the year.

So, no, I do not think that just one for each child is enough. What about the special things without the children? My SIL is a CM consultant and she maintains a book for each child, and then a yearly book which includes all of her vacation trips for that year. Almost everyone I know has multiple books, not just the kid oriented ones.

 

[paulinewdw]

I currently am doing family albums. I have 3 sons(ages 5, 8, and
11). I would love to do separate albums for them(as soon as I get caught up with the family albums) I have been scrapping for 1 1/2 years and have completed 1999, 2000 and part of 2001.
I have also done a couple of gift albums. I have duplicates of all photos and if I ever have time, I will create individual albums, if not, at least I have the family albums.

 

[TwinMom7]

I have 7 children (including a set of twins). When I started scrapbooking 4 years ago, I knew I could never afford to have 7 albums going....so I chose to go with family albums. I scrapbook everything chronologically. My goal is to keep the present scrapped and slowly work my backwards in time through my photo albums. So far...I've only made it back as far as 1995 and I'm seriously thinking I may never get further back!!

I scrapbook all of our vacations in a separate album. I also did a separate album (which is ongoing) for our oldest son and his Marine Corp experiences. I started that album with his boot camp and I update it reguarly with photos of his tours.

This is the method that works best for me. If I'd only had 2 or 3 kids, I probably would have done an album for each one.

 

[Spinning]

have any of you thought about using top loading? That way down the road if you are caught up you can more the pages out quickly. I am doing this with my kids. Not sure if I want to continue a school album, ballet album, and kids life album (which is what I have now). So I use top load and can move stuff out I always do a 2 page lay out so moving won't be a problem.

 

[My~Rumbly~Tumbly]

I use the CM albums and have already considered the fact that many years fromnow, these pages can be removed and easily divided if need be (especially the family/vacation albums).

 

[etwinchester]

Don't be too worried about moving pictures. You can always use the UNDO adhesive remover if you want to remove only a couple.

I've done this several times and you'd never know!

 

[Pammy jo]

I have 3 DS. They each have their own album and they get a new one whenever there's is full. Yea, I say it's their's and they'll get it someday but not without a struggle. When I'm old and my boys are gone I'll want to look at them all the time to remember.

I also do an ongoing Christmas album , although each of them get at least a 2 page spread in their own album for Christmas.

And this year's Disney vacation will begin a ongoing Disney album. Just never did one before, but now I feel it's a MUST!

The family-type pictures just go into regular photo albums. I would like to scrap a family album, but this way I can do all the boys individually and still keep up. It works for me.

 

[dizfamily]

I do a yearly family album (1 year per album) and I also have a "regular" album for each daughter (I have 2 daughters) and my oldest daughter also has a School Days album and a dance album. I don't do duplicate layouts in any albums, though. It goes in one album or another, not more than one. I also have separate vacation albums and a Christmas album. I think I have about 15-20 albums either finished or ongoing right now.

 

[DiznEeyore]

I only have one child (ds) so I do a family album. Our vacation albums are separate, and my beloved kitty has her own album (I've had her since I was in high school, so she rates an entire book ). I figure ds will get my books when I die, so there's no need to make separate ones.

 

[My~Rumbly~Tumbly]

Pammy,

I completely hear you! I have said all along that I am doing these albums for my children, but what I haven't said is that they can't have them until I'm on my death bed, lol.

 

[My~Rumbly~Tumbly]

Amy, that is cute that you have an album of your cat. I wished I had pictures of my kitty when she was little. Some things you just weren't thinking of when you were 15. I've also had my kitty since I was in highschool. I've had her for almost 15 years. She was one in a litter my mom had, and my cat has outlived her mom and dad by about 10 years.

 

[Dopey & Grumpy]

I'm new to scrapbooking (only 1 month). My sister and granddaughter got me started. I have envelopes of pictures dating as far back as 1988 (when I stopped putting them in photo albums). I sorted them into years then categories. I can't imagine making seperate albums for each child and grandchild so what I'm doing is one for Disney and Cruise vacations. One for all the weddings. One for various family holidays and birthdays. One for non-Disney vacations. And one for just family fun gatherings. I've talked to my family and they've agreed they'll just divide them up (when I'm gone) and told me not to worry about it - to just enjoy doing them. So far I've got three started. When I finally get all the pictures I want in a scrapbook, I may take the ones left over and make individual books - kinda like a hodge podge collection...but I'm not there yet. I'm learning so much on this board and have "stolen" ideas from here and books I've bought. The information on this site is invaluable and I'm looking forward to many years of scrapbooking.

 

[BevS97]

I only have 1 dd, although I hope to have more children in the future.
At the moment, I do vacation albums, and family albums. I use toploading albums, so if in the future I have more than 1 child, then can choose which layouts they want to keep.

But they are mine as long as I live!

bev