Honeybee83
Mouseketeer
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- Aug 15, 2013
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For anyone who has gone to DW with littles, I'm sure you know how much they love to get autographs from their favorite characters. Then you come home and have a book that gets thrown under a bed and forgotten. Many have thrown out ideas such as having them sign a photo matte or scrapbook to which pictures can be added later near the signature. We are not really "print people" though. In that, I mean that we tend to have either digital images on the computer, or make photo books ourselves on a site like shutterfly to preserve our memories in a nicely bound, compact, themed, and decorated album. We are taking our first trip with our only child in September who will be 2 1/2. I will want to do autographs with her, but since I'm not a cut out and decorate scrapbook fan, I didn't know how to combine the photo book and the autograph book in a nice way that didn't look messy and ridiculous. I find online digital photo booking to be so much nicer and more convenient. What to do?
Enter genius husband. I plan on getting in advance for our trip, a bound stationary book with thick, card stock pages (preferably one that will fold flat completely). We will take that on our trip, let our DD get as many signatures as her little heart desires, and when we come home we will scan those signatures into our computer as individual images that can be added to a photo book next to the picture of the character we will take. I don't have to buy a scrapbook, stickers, and cut out a ton of pictures, autographs, and decorations. I get to use my tried and true photo book skills and still get to preserve the wonderful memories of her meeting those characters, autographs and all. Another bonus, the scanned image can be resized, whereas the hard copy can't.
Boom! Disney Magic!
Enter genius husband. I plan on getting in advance for our trip, a bound stationary book with thick, card stock pages (preferably one that will fold flat completely). We will take that on our trip, let our DD get as many signatures as her little heart desires, and when we come home we will scan those signatures into our computer as individual images that can be added to a photo book next to the picture of the character we will take. I don't have to buy a scrapbook, stickers, and cut out a ton of pictures, autographs, and decorations. I get to use my tried and true photo book skills and still get to preserve the wonderful memories of her meeting those characters, autographs and all. Another bonus, the scanned image can be resized, whereas the hard copy can't.
Boom! Disney Magic!
