Organizing a Disney Album

[illiram]

I searched for this and didn't really see what I was looking for - I even thought maybe I had posted this question before. If it's a common topic, I'm sorry...

I'm going to do one (or two or three ) Disney album for all of our trips so far. I just go back and forth as to whether I should do it year by year or if I should have sections for Resorts, Parks, Characters, etc. ?! As soon as I think I've made up my mind, I start seeing the really good points to the "other" way.

Could one of you make up my mind for me and just let me know which way I'm going to do it so I can just get started already??!!

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

 

[huge mickey fan]

I am pretty crazy about my albums. I do each trip separatly. Then within the trip I go by park and then Day. For example, our last trip we had two days at Magic Kingdom. I did each land together and put them in my book first because it was the 1st park we went to. I personally would do each trip separatley and group the photos within the album. Resort, Pool, Parks

Hopefully this will help.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Personally I do 1 (or more ) album for each trip but I scrap by park not by day. We tend to go for 7-10 days at a time so it's too much for me to keep track of for each day. I put restaurants in with the parks if they are inside that park, or in between park pages. Me resort pages usually go in the very front.

If you are going to scrap multiple trips I would suggest doing it by park, resort, restaurants etc.... If you have pictures of the same place for each visit, (example - we take a pick at DTD at the pin store with the Donald statue) then you could highlight those on a 1 or 2 page layout and label the years for each picture.
Oh in my park pages I do try to scrap them by time of day. Like my MK pages start on Main street, daytime castle pics, parade, then each land, the castle at sunset, the castle at night, spectromagic, and then Wishes. Same with Epcot, future world, then the countries going around from the left (we always go left) and ending with Illuminations. AK is by land and MGM is day to night.

I hope this helps, you'll get lots of different answers though, and really there really isn't any right or wrong way to scrap.
Not much help huh?!?!?

 

[illiram]

Thanks! Those things are exactly what I was looking for. I'm such a follower.

 

[rlovew]

I have taken many trip to Disney and most were before I started scrapping I am working on albums combining all our trips and leaving some rooms for a few trips this year into albums for each park. We go on short weekend trips regularly so that works best for me.

Rebecca

 

[Spinning]

I do all my trip albums seprate. I find after each trip the books get smaller than than the first but I like to keep them in order and together. I thin you can see the transitions better....
I don't know what type of album you use but one thing to think about, if you use a top loading album you can change your mind once you are done with your disney trips. I did this with my kids "Life" albums I first started with ever thing in this book, school, sports, birthdays, friends...and found it was too crazy. So I broke their books up. Luckily they were top loading so I just moved things around....OK I think I hijacked your thread..........

 

[Faerie]

I have split thoughts on this. Because I live down here, I tend to do a weekend or two during the year and then a slightly longer than a week trip. The long trip is it's own album. The weekends usually don't end up to be enough for their own album so I'll put multiple weekends in an album

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

also if you have random or extra pics you can do an ABC album. I put pics from all our trips in that one.

 

[pjlla]

Well..... just a vote from the "strictly (some say anally) chronological" camp. It would make me crazy to have pictures from multiple trips in the same album (never mind on the same page ) My albums (all of them, including Disney) go in chronological order. My Disney albums go day by day (arrival day, first park day, second park day, etc.), even if we park hop. Can't help it... it's just my way! ......................P

 

[Lyndarella]

I would scrap each trip by itself. I think it's important to keep each one separate, as they are all individual events. If you don't have many pages of some trips, group the finished "books" together in one album. I have done this!

 

[lovingthemouse]

Just one more thought...when we go for a long weekend, I usually place them in an 8x8 size scrapbook; the longer trips go in the traditional 12X12 size. Started creating just one book a few years back, but with all the great things we experienced, decided that each trip deserved its own book. Caroline

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

Well..... just a vote from the "strictly (some say anally) chronological" camp. It would make me crazy to have pictures from multiple trips in the same album (never mind on the same page ) My albums (all of them, including Disney) go in chronological order. My Disney albums go day by day (arrival day, first park day, second park day, etc.), even if we park hop. Can't help it... it's just my way! ......................P

I'm a member of this camp, too!! It may be crazy, but I do mine strictly chronological, too! The resort pics go first (because that's where we go first), and then the parks by day (even if there's more than one), and the restaurants go in on the day they fit in. If we park hopped after a restaurant, the other park goes in after the meal pages!

 

[TN Dreamer]

Well..... just a vote from the "strictly (some say anally) chronological" camp. It would make me crazy to have pictures from multiple trips in the same album (never mind on the same page ) My albums (all of them, including Disney) go in chronological order. My Disney albums go day by day (arrival day, first park day, second park day, etc.), even if we park hop. Can't help it... it's just my way! ......................P

I'm with you. I have to scrap everything in order.I might use some of my old photos and scrap them with current pictures to show how much the kids have grown. I have one of my DH holding our 1st son in front of the castle at age 4. We did not go back to Disney again until that son was 21. I have those two pictures scrapped together on same page and I love it.. priceless. My son was taller than this father!! Helps to see how much the kids have grown.

 

[fonsy]

I'm a chronological freak too I do it day by day, hour after hour. Example for Day 1: Airport, Hotel, Park, Attractions (in the same order we ride them) and if we go to a restaurant, or take pictures with characters we put them in order. We like to remember what we did first, and then what came later during the day. Maybe not as organized as you wished, but that's what works for me.

 

[Macca1111]

Well..... just a vote from the "strictly (some say anally) chronological" camp. It would make me crazy to have pictures from multiple trips in the same album (never mind on the same page ) My albums (all of them, including Disney) go in chronological order. My Disney albums go day by day (arrival day, first park day, second park day, etc.), even if we park hop. Can't help it... it's just my way! ......................P

Ah, another anal retentive. I can't handle being out of order either. I nodded along with your entire response. Part of the problem with that level of craziness tho - I'm still behind like 3 years! Ahh!

 

[carolinagirl]

Wow! Some of you are super organized! I am currently working on our trip from 2004, so there is no way I could remember what we did in the correct order!

Each of our trips gets its own album. I usually like to try to purchase an album while I'm there and use it for that trip. Although, there was one year when I didn't particularly like the album choices, so I just purchased a red, cloth 3 ring binder album for that trip. (Love the ease of switching around pages in a 3 ring binder album).

One thing that I do is give each album a "theme". For example, in one album all of the pages used the classic Mickey color scheme....red, black, yellow (and a little blue thrown in). I used black cardstock as the base for each page.

The trip I am currently working on, I am using bright papers that I purchased as a collection. Mainly purples, oranges, yellows and bright greens. All of the papers in the collection coordinate, so it make it easy to put pages together.

I'm trying to get all my Disney trips in albums before we take our next trip in September. So I've got to get 2004 completed....then there is 2005, the quick trip at Christmas 2005 and the 2006 trip to be completed. Wish me luck!

 

[aroyer]

I have to do things in chronological order too!! I can't stand for them to be out of order. The nice thing about having the digital pictures is that they are in order on my computer. So when I get stuck trying to remember what happened next, I just go to the computer and look them up in my photos file. This will really come in handy when I scrap the parade pictures!

 

[cindrela]

Add me to the list of "chronological" scrappers...especially when it comes to Disney. When I look at the album, I want to be able to relive the Magic, as it happened. I do sometimes take the same pics on different trips, but I like to look back and see how my boys have grown. Even if I go to one park more than once, I like to see it in order as it happened. Working on my Disney album gets me through to the next trip. Right now my Thanksgiving trip is sitting in a box, because we are moving and its KILLING me not to be able to scrap that trip. On the plus side, we are moving to Tallahassee, Florida, so before we know it, we will be Florida residents!!! Weekend trips to Disney, here we come!!! I'll never get caught up then!!!

 

[pretty in tink]

Hi all, I'm a newbie here, been "lurking" awhile reading things but thought I'd add my two cents- My trips are separate events and so I feel they deserve separate albums, or put them in the same album but sorted by trip. We went to WDW when my daughter was 4 and then when she was seven and her brother was 6 mos. The pictures have a totally different feel to them. When just looking at the pictures all mixed in together before I scrapbook them, they don't fit together. We go from having a family pic of three people, to family pic of four, and my daughter even looks completely different! It seems to make them more "complete" experiences when they are separated out. But I don't bother to do them by resorts and rides, necessarily. So much happens over the course of a week, sometimes meeting the same characters on different days, it's difficult to separate it all out! So character breakfast photos all stay within the same set sorted by which breakfast but most of the other stuff gets mixed up, and it works. Basically I think you should set everything out if it's not already scrapbooked and see if it all fits together or if you naturally start seeing them grouped by trip. And once you scapbook them you can always move pages around within your book until you find what works best for you. Sorry so long!

 

[pjlla]

Wow! Some of you are super organized! I am currently working on our trip from 2004, so there is no way I could remember what we did in the correct order!

FWIW.... I keep a trip journal for every trip. I take a small notebook and pen along everywhere I go (in my fanny pack) and I use the time while we are on the Monorail or waiting in line to write. And I am pretty precise.... (left the hotel at 8:24 am.... arrived in AK parking area at 8:45 am... waited for rope drop near TOL and headed to Camp Minnie-Mickey. ) In the evening I usually add a few more details. When I get home I type the journal in my PC. Then it is all ready when I am going to scrap. Plus, if I have some confusion, I can look at the time/date stamp on my digital photo. HTH.....P