October 22, 2005 Roll call

[marnight]

Hi Padarrah,

Sent you my info for your site. Let me know if it didn't come thru ok. Can't wait till October. Your site looks great!

Maria

 

[American Scrapper]

Welcome MelissaE1 & Timon, I was on that cruise with Scrapperjill in October and although we were rerouted got pretty luck, not to mention we had a blast! My DD will be 6 at the time of sailing and will be glad to know that there will be other girls close to her age sailing. They will have a blast in the club.

Timon, I agree, the DIS meet is such a good time. We met some wonderful people at ours and some are sailing together again this time. I encourage everyone to at least attend. I have been a member of the DIS boards since our first cruise in January of 2003 and have learned so much from these boards. The one thing I did not know though was DO NOT FORGET YOUR PASSWORD. I tried several times recently to have my password reset before I finally gave up and created a new DIS name. It would be no big deal, but I am a DIS addict and needed my DIS

TTFN - gotta go post some more (Scrapperjill, I don't think I will ever catch up to you - you know you can be scrapping instead )

Kathy

 

[ThreeSmiths]

Welcome to all of our new friends! Glad to have you with us!

MelissaE1: We have a 7 year old daughter who will be just 8 at the time of sailing. She will definitely like to email your daughter. She emailed back and forth with Scrapperjill's daughter before our Sept. 11 cruise and they became fast friends. They even sent photos of eachother and recognized one another in line at the terminal! I think it was probably the best "preplanning" activity that I did. It definitely benefitted us more than all of the shore excursion planning and booking that I did....as we never made it to most of our scheduled stops!!!

Well, it was 74 and sunny here in Charlotte, NC today....we're having a heat wave!!! It made DH and I long for the warm and sunny carribean!!!

Happy 2005 to all! :thewave:

Stacy

 

[Timon]

We are in the middle of a cold snap!!

And that's in CELCIUS!!!!!!

Come on October!!

 

[ThreeSmiths]

LOL!!!! Too funny! I wish I could send some warm air up to you, Timon! I like the unseasonably warm weather. However the ski buffs are not sharing my enthusiasm! My friend had a ski trip planned this week, and it's in the 60's in the mountains....can't even make snow. I got enough cold and snow at the Grand Canyon last week....37 degrees and 20-30 mph winds made it too cold for my bones!!! I had always thought of Arizona as a hot, airid climate. I didn't take into consideration the elevation! I prefer sea level on the Carribean Sea!

American Scrapper, glad to see you back on! I was organizing some photos today and decided that I might just try my hand at the scrapbook thing....not like I have time, but I need to do something with all these photos!

 

[American Scrapper]

Timon, I thought we had it bad! We are expecting 15 inches of snow by the Thursday, mixed with ice storms. I am hoping that it passes us by, but it does not look good right now. I just noticed that you are also a scrapbooking addict. There are several of us here. Last cruise some of us started a photo swap. It was a nice way to get other pictures or ones that you did not think of taking. It worked out great!

Threesmiths, welcome to Scrapbookers Anonoymos (sp?)! We are glad that you can join us! LOL!! I am sure that you will find some time to do some scrapbooking. I am way behind, but it does not stop me! My goal is to start our last cruise before we go in October. Right now it does not look to good. I have to do one for my DMIL for her BD at the end of this month from our Disney trip in July. She is always looking at my books and I think she will appreciate one of her grandkids.

Kathy

 

[American Scrapper]

Timon,

I just took a look at you web site. Great job!! I noticed that you have a link to other DISers photos and mine is one of them (amgpmg - now American Scrapper)!! That was on our first 3 night cruise in 2003. It was nice to glance back at them real quick, especially with all of our snow on the way!

Kathy

 

[Timon]

ThreeSmiths: waiting on that warm air! Any time now....

American Scrapper: Cool, we'll have tons of scrappers on our cruise! So, when we see people with the camera permanently attached to their face, we'll know who we are!! I can see it now...it's 5 am, everybody is sleeping except the scrapbookers trying to get photos of the sun rising LOL

Well, my last WDW trip I took over 2500 digital photos plus a few water cameras so this being my first DISNEY MAGIC cruise having a digital camera, wellllllllllll, there's no telling how many pictures I will take!
And I am a good sharer so, mi photo su photo

 

[Timon]

Kathy,
Oh yeah, about the DCL link, I kept seeing a post on the DCL board about photos so I thought it would be nice to have a page where you could access a whole bunch of them at once! Plus I also got fed up of looking everywhere for some DCL photos when I needed my fix

I remember seeing your photos before, I almost e-mailed you to ask permission to use some of your kids photos from Castaway Cay when I was putting my www.digitalscrapbooks.ca website together...great photos!

 

[scrapperjill]

Wow...I go to work for one day and everyone gets chatty . Photo swaps...again...I'm all for it. I have to say it worked out so nice...to see everyones views and the diffrent places eveyone went.

Welcome to the cruise meet board timon glad to have you join us.

Mellisa how was WDW durring the hurricans??? We were suppose to go there for a week before the cruise..but it ended up being cancled because the place we were staying was closing durring the hurricane waves...we were very very bumbed..it was going to be our first time....Maybe...just maybe we can squeeze in a couple days this go around.
I'm sure my DD would love to pinpal again...she is still talking about her new friend from last time (ThreeSmiths)...and keep bugging us to help her call...but of course everytime she asks it's late here...so even later back on the east coast. But back to pinpals...It had to have been the BEST pre cruise planning we did...It turned out so wonderfully.

ThreeSmiths...you have got to be kidding about the weather...I can't beleive it. We finally got some snow up here...a whole 3-4 inches ...and our heat wave it gone...it was a nice 18 degrees when I was comming home tonight. Oh...and thats a GREAT idea to try your hand at scrapbooking...youll love it...and be hooked before you know what hit you.

I'm just about finished with my Sept cruise albums...I'm sooo bad. I knew I was in trouble when I filled the first album with the first two days.... I've had to go through 5 albums to get the week finished. It's a good thing we weren't on a 10 day cruise. I ended up doing two albums of days at sea...and three albums ...one for each port. Jesse said were going to have to cut back on vacations...just because of the after costs of putting my albums together. lol lol

 

[scrapperjill]

Oh...American Scrapper... I know I could be spending my time scrapbooking...but after working so hard on the 5 books...I hate to say it but I got scrappers block. I just didn't have the drive to get my stuff out...but I'm getting the itch again..and have been thinking of working on that last album...it's CC so it'll be fun. I think the block was caused partly from having all the holiday decor out...I can't stand clutter..and the decor and my scrap stuff was just to much to handle. Now that the tree is down and all the other things are out...It's time to make a mess of the table again. So after my couple days of work this week...I think I'll get it out...and get back to work on the important stuff.

 

[scrapperjill]

Timon...I just checked out your site...Loved it. I quicky browsed through your trip report with pics...I'll have to take time next time to read some of it. It's getting late tonight so maybe tomarrow. Oh...also looked through your scrapbook area...Glad to see someone else is crazy about mats. Awesome pages.. Love the "Robs gift album" that was sooo cute...and with the engraved tag.

American Scrapper...aka amgpmg...looked through your pics also...the kids...so cute...they look sooo little and sooo young. One question??? what time were you at the terminal to get those shots with out anyone else in the background??? Like the one of the model ship...there is no one around...then the other one with the huge Mickey ears doorway. Where is everyone??

 

[Timon]

scrapperjill,
Thanks! Do you have any of your layouts posted online anywhere? I'd love to see some! We just sold our house and my scrappin stuff has been packed up for about 2-3 months now so I just started to scrap digitally. I actually LOVE it, it gives me way more freedom. We move in 3 weeks so after all that crazyness is done, I think I am going to sit down and digitally scrap my RCCL cruise and start doing my chronological albums digitally, starting with 2005.

 

[American Scrapper]

Timon,

You are more than welcome to use any of my pics if you still need to. It was actually cold that day on Castaway Cay, but you'd never know by the pictures. My DH & DD were the first ones on the beach. I love the picture of her just wandering ahead of him all alone on the beach. My DS & I joined them later, after my DS woke up. He slept in that day, since he decided he needed to order food from room service at 2:00 in the morning after coming back from the club.

Scrapperjill, we actually got to port before they were open because the space shuttle was scheduled to take off. We had found out about it just the day before, so it was a special surprise. It was our second launch we saw in Florida and was such a beautiful way to start our cruise. It is amazing how pretty it is when it launches, kind of sends chills down your spine just watching it. Needless to say, we did not know at the time that this would be the ill fated shuttle that crashed upon reentering earth. How very sad it was. There is a special section in my SB that mentions it. It is not as hectic as boarding the Magic, for some reason people don't get as crazy boarding the Wonder - at least that is what I have heard. We were about 10 people back in line.

Kathy

 

[scrapperjill]

Kathy..aka american Scrapper I remember talking about the shuttle launch with you...I guess I just never put two and two together... That would be something else to see. I'm sure Alexis would LOVE it.

Timon...I've been some looking into digital scrapbooking for a while now...but haven't gotten around to giving it a whirl. I get enough **** for being on the computer so much as it is...but then again it sure would cut down on the scrap clutter around the kitchen table. I know what it's like to have your things packed up for some time. Right before our last cruise....we tore my scrap room down and converted it into a bedroom for our oldest daughter...since then I've had alot of my stuff packed in the garage. Of course I have all my tools and essentials out and handy...but alot of stuff is still stored in my cabnets and drawers that are now held up in the never ending pile in the garage. But heck...whatever I can't get to in the garage...I can find at the store

I don't have any of my layouts posted online anywhere...I have actually never even thought of doing it. Gives me something else to work on..I guess.

TTFN

 

[ThreeSmiths]

Timon,

I saw your website, it is so cool!!!! Because I am considering taking up the scrapbook thing, I checked out your scrapbook section. It is so awesome! I think my main obstacle is going to be creativity.....I was born without that gene!

So scrappers, where do you suggest I begin?

American Scrapper, I saw your 2003 photos....OMG Anthony looks so LITTLE!!! He sure did grow up a lot in a year! Payton looks so cute and small and sweet! They grow up too fast!!!!

Well, gotta go get DD ready for bed. Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday!!!

TTFN

Stacy

 

[scrapperjill]

Stacy,

Start small...scrapbooking can become overwhelming when your just starting. I'd suggest picking what kind of album you want to start on first...ie...a general family album, a vacation album (like the cruise), a DD album. Thne start getting your photos that go with your album theme together. Since your just starting..you have lots of choices. You can do your albums in chronological order...or just get your photos in an album in any order that works well for you. I'd also suggets starting current...and work on back tracking as you have time...That way you can try and stay up to date with your new photos...People just starting get real overwhelmed when they get going then realize how many years of photos they have sitting around.

 

[ThreeSmiths]

Sandi,

Do you use ALL of your photos? Do you know of any good online resources that will help me along?

Thanks!

Stacy

 

[Timon]

Stacy,

I agree with scrapperjill, it can be VERY overwhelming. Start with one project, like a trip. That way you only feel like you have to finish that one, not the rest of your life in photographs

You are going to want to use all your photographs, DON'T!! Just pick the best ones that showcase that moment in time. You don't need to be overly creative, really! My advice for each layout is pick your photos, mount them on cardstock, make a journaling block (this is what scrapping is all about, to record your memories and thoughts) add a title and that's it!

When you feel more at ease with the whole process, add some stickers or
some die cuts. You will find after awhile, that you have your own style and just go with it...some people hate stickers, some love them, same with printed papers or embellishments etc.

If you are totally clueless, just check out some layouts online and you can even "scraplift" from them until you find your own style.

Some great sites for layout ideas are:
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/
http://www.dmarie.com/layouts/

You can get tons of great tips from the SB board here on the DIS
There's tons of great ladies (and the odd gentleman ) over there and they are all so helpful and friendly!

Here's the FAQ
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=136038

Actually, that's how I started! I checked out that FAQ, read some posts on the SB forum, bought some supplies at Michaels and off I went. Now I post regularily on the SB forum and find great inspiration from all those post on that board!

Good luck and have fun! BEWARE, it's highly addictive!

 

[ThreeSmiths]

Thanks Cass! I'm so excited to get going. Now to find the time....it certainly won't be this weekend! I had no idea that DIS had a scrapbook thread! I wil be heading there shortly. And to the other sites you suggested.

On the subject of our Cruise....DH considered (only for a fraction of a second) rescheduling our cruise. His cousin and family (whom we've been trying to get to go on a cruise with us) called and said they were going to book for our week. DH was ecstatic. Then they called back and said that they had a conflict for that week, so could we reschedule for the following week. He was so disappointed that he almost said "yes." But then he realized that I would kill him and he wouldn't get to go on any cruise at all....and made the right decision. No, actually, he said he considered it for a second and then told them that we already had plans with cruise friends for that week. Wise decision, don't you think?

Okay, gotta go scan the SB sites. Lucky for me I don't have to get up early tomorrow!

TTFN!

Stacy