Organizing a Disney Album

[Connie of Trenton]

I do seperate albums for each event...however sometimes the size album I use varies. I also do my albums in order of how the trip occured. I try to be such an organized person that any other way would drive me crazy. So I can remember details for when I get home I bring a notebook with me and at night before bed while I am unwinding I jot down our days activities.

 

[Crystal_27]

I do things a bit differently. With my "special" albums (i.e., anything other than my yearly albums of my DD), I typically have a theme for them. For example, with our Disney albums, I am doing an ABC theme, where I will showcase 2 pages with each letter of the alphabet. I think that creating a theme allows me to get through it a bit quicker, which allows me to get back to scrapping my DD. Good luck!

 

[babywewe]

I too would do each trip separetly. Organize your photos into trips. Then pick out the best that you want to scrap. I wrap a piece of paper around photos I want on each page. Ex. I have 3 photos wrapped into paper for a epcote flower and garden show page.

 

[Camicar]

I guess I'm in the minority. My albums are organized by parks and are not in any chrono order at all.

I didn't start scrapping until after we'd already taken a few trips and therefore hadn't saved a lot of the 'stuff' that I do today. (I'm definitely not a digital/photo page scrapper. I journal and use as much of the actual stuff of the trip as possible).

So, my albums are organized by park and the pages include photos from different trips. Actually, it was kind of fun recently to go thru my photos and realize that I always take a pic of my dd in the red phone booths at the England pavilion or in front of the temple in China. And she loves Pooh, so that is one character she always wants her picture taken with. So with combining those pics on one page, you can not only see where your interests lie, you can see how much she's grown over time.

Doing it this way, another personal advantage was that I was also able to include the few photos I have of my family's trip to WDW in March 1972. There are so few there is no way I could make an entire album out of it, but including them in the pages of my adult life is more efficient and effective for me (and seeing the pic of me and my sister in front of the castle with a pic of my dd in front of the castle is meaningful to me). For example, my experience in 1972 definitely informed how I approached our first trip with dd in 2000, so including those pics was a good jumping off start to journal my attitude and choices.

I figure that when we go to WDW next time, we will have a 'photo plan' to focus on areas we have not done before and I will do a subsequent and small album along that theme. (For example, this time we tried to take a photo of each different lamp post we saw. It was a really useful exercise in that it really made us away of the depth of theming Disney does. We did this photo plan precisely for the scrapbooking and a small (2x2 or less) photo of a lamp post is in the corner of each page providing some continuity and a reminder of the theming.)