question about scrappin your disney trips?

[DISNEY'03]

our first trip was in Sept. 2003, and I have started doing it in order, kinda like a story, where each layout goes to the next section of the trip. but, now we are going again in 46 days (if it will ever hurry up!!), and will be there for the anniversary, and the free dining.

question is:

should i continue doing the first trip like i was (cause unfortunantly, i am still with the beginning of the trip), and do this trip coming up seperately since it is the anniversary?

OR

should i break it all down, like one book for each park, one book for all the restaurants (with character meals since we have free dining--that's alot of food and places to eat), one for resorts, cause we will be at quite a few for the meals, and then there are some we just want to tour, and one for extra stuff like DTD, minature golf, swimming, etc.

just would like some opinions, cause i will be a very busy scrapper when we get back. i plan to get on the ball and start getting something done since supplies are collecting dust, and so forth...

thank you in advanced,

dina

 

[bubbasmom99]

I did one book of our December cruise. That's when I started *really* scrapping. All our trips prior to 2004, I am going to do an ABC album and tie them all together... except probably for our honeymoon, which was our first trip to WDW.

This year we are headed to DL multiple times so I will probably do one book for all trips combined.

 

[Momeska]

Personally, I'm a chronological order kind of scrapper. All of my scrapbooks are done that way. If something is out of order, it makes me crazy and jumps out at me everytime I look at the scrapbook. I'm just one of those very OCD, anal scrappers!

 

[grover]

I have always done just one album of the entire trip..but at over 70 pages in one 12x12...they are too heavy
I want to do something different next time as well...smaller themed albums I think
Which way are you leaning towards right now?
You could do a 4 parks album..a dining album, a character album...
Grover in Winnipeg

 

[JudithM]

I am a more of a chronlogical person, too, so I scrap each trip separately. I do have some duplicate photos in a pile that eventually I want to do an ABC Disney sb.

 

[basketlady322003]

I like things in Chronological too, but I did a vacation album of just vacations we had taken - they were all beach, Disney, Kennedy Space Center. You can only scrap so much - so this time I think I am going to do the ABC's of Disney World. I have seen ABC books for babies for grandparents and they are adorable. I am doing the ABC's of the Civil War. We have visited several battlefields and re enactments. Also of my daughters high School memories for her for graduation . Just sit and think of the things that you could do with the alphabet. FUN

 

[Momeska]

I have always done just one album of the entire trip..but at over 70 pages in one 12x12...they are too heavy

Grover,
I know what you mean. I've added so many refills to my albums that they weigh a ton. I just warn people to sit down and get comfortable and then just ease it into their lap...or put it on a table. Sorry, I can't be swayed...strictly chronological.

 

[cobbler]

I do each trip in its own book, then I scrap that Chronologically for what we did what day.

 

[Merandab4]

My suggestion is to do it in chronological order as well. I would put all the same trip in the same book. I would not do a seperate book for parks, dinning, resorts, etc. If someone asks to see your SB of your trip, you don't want to pull out 5 seperate books

However, I am also deciding weather or not I want to put each Disney vacation in its own book, or do one book with several disney vacations in it. Of course I will keep the vacations in chronological order, like pages 1-12 will be our May trip, pages 13-25 will be our September trip....etc.

One other thing you could do is to group your pages by parks/resorts.
I, like others on the board like to scrap by day.... Example: this is what we did on day one....Epcot, hung out at the GF pool, took a boat ride, and then went to MK at night..... Day two...you get the idea! Although this method of scrapping is ideal, I don't always remember what I did on each day, (from older trip anyway), and on somedays I would have more pictures and other days not have taken any. So to me it makes it easier for me to Scrap all my MK pictures together, all Epcot pictures together, and all the resort pictures together. It saves pages, and makes the book look more uniform then just having a few park pics on each page. Does this make sence? Now of course this is what I intend to do, but have not actually completed it yet.

Good luck!

 

[MinnieAnn]

Since I have started scrapbooking, I always keep a journal during our trips - every night we write down the best thing we did and any special things or funny things that we want to remember. I also write down where we ate (and what we had if it was wonderful) and which park(s) we went to.

I don't have that kind of details about our older trips, but I have tons of photos and memorabilia. My plan is to choose the best photos from those trips and to make either an ABC album with them, or just do sections in an album for each park, the places we stayed, favorite restaurants, and characters. If I remember any details, I can put those in the journaling, or I can just include the date from the trip. I will also use photo pages in that album so I can include photos I want to be able to see, but that aren't special enough to scrap.

It was hard to decide to take that short-cut, but I finally had to admit that I'll never do a separate album for each of those old trips - particularly when we keep taking new trips. We're going to Disneyland in September and WDW next May for our 10th anniversary.

I don't think I'll ever be caught up on my scrapping, but if I take a few shortcuts on those old trips, I'll get closer, while still having those memories preserved so I can enjoy them.

Good luck!

 

[DISNEY'03]

i think i have decided to go ahead and do it as the 2 seperate trips, especially since i have already started on the first trip awhile back. we have decided also that this will be our last disney trip for quite awhile, so this way it will be "fresh" to us and it will give me a chance to get caught up with the scrapbooking of the trips.

i thank you guys again,

dina 44 days to go and