ReAnSt said:I found this picture with oddball and two other dalmatians. It would be great for a christmas design unfortunately it isn't very large.
Becky
kadaten said:Can I add some autograph pages?
I prepared all the pages before we went and had them in a 6x6 album arranged according to groups (Fab 5, Cinderella and everyone from her movie, etc...). Had lots of plain pages in the back, in several colors. Carried the album and about 15 colors of pens in a gallon ziplock in our park bag. Had them sign directly on page and added photos when we got home.
Some done before we left:
It was quite a trip! We ended up getting 56 different autographs that trip. I'd done 40 of the pages before we left, and luckily had taken enough extras for the others. (I have to admit, I did not make pages beforehand for Queen of Hearts and King Louie....but did when I got home!) As you can see, some are more involved than others, but it was lots of fun to do, and I just used scrapping supplies I already had on hand. Now if only any of my other albums were actually done....
TIP: Make sure to put "this book belongs to..." and your name and address somewhere in the book (or any autograph book!). If, heaven forbid, it is lost in the parks, if they find an address in it, Disney will mail it back to you!
lmartin2711 said:
rosiejo said:Blimey my PM box is full!!! Just cleared some out
I've just uploaded all of the images to my photobucket account http://photobucket.com/albums/a60/r0siej0/Autograph book/
If you'd like me to email them then send me your email address... I may need to rezip them though as the emails are 3 mb each and there are three of them - I'm on 8mb broadband and it's a bit of a struggle so if you're on dial up there's no chance!
I'll try and split them further before I send any more out
Ouch. I hope it heals quickly.bengalbelle said:Well my friends, let this be a lesson to you. Don't leave your Christmas stockings hanging on the mantel until well into January if you have a curious 5 year old. Christopher stared at his so long he thought Santa came back and left something in it. When he pulled on the stocking the cast iron stocking holder fell off and hit him in the head twice. He has a cut in his scalp and his forehead split and has a little knot. Fortunately the cut on his forehead was very small. Had it been any larger it may have required stitches. It's also fortunate that he's very hard headed. You think I would have learned my lesson after he pulled the last hanger off and broke it.
itdjbw said:
. It all comes down to funding the state pays for each students hienie in a chair and they have a convoluted system that they can pay less if the child is out of school for more than a week. Ah government!!
That is such a cool idea. Could you email the to me please?rosiejo said:Tammi you have just reminded me - I made an autograph book for our last trip - I created a page for each character with their name written on and then some clip art and maybe the lyrics of a song as the border. It took hours - well I enjoyed the photo impact bit but the printing/cutting out and making the book took so long I nearly didn't bother...
but the characters LOVED it!
I listed them all alphabetically so it was easy to find them and would have the page ready each time. When we went to see flik I couldn't find his page - I was quite confused as I knew I'd done one - the CM saw my book and loved it - I said I could't find flik so I'd just do a photo - but she pulled me to one side and had me find it (the two pages were stuck together) then put us back in front of the line. Flik was GREAT - he kept pointing to the page and then the CM and doing the blushing action - then he would point at hopper (I put associated character clip art on someof the pages) and would quiver with his hands over his eyes!
I got such a buzz when the characters showed they liked my book - and I got more attention than some of the kids in line - so my advice is definitely take a personalised book - it will be so worth it for extra interaction
I'm more than happy to package up my images and email them onto anyone who wants to see - or doesn't have time to make their own
I would love to do a more personalized one our next trip. We bought the kids the autograph books with 1 page for autograph and the other side a photo holder. They didn't have enough pages. After 2 character meals, we had to buy more autograph books. We ended up with 8 autograph books (2 sets each kid)
tinknme said:
Wow. You really are organized, I would never have thought to color-coordinate the signatures. That's a cool idea. I must be the world's most unorganized mom. (I even buy all white socks for the boys.julia & nicks mom said:it has been a while since I posted my pictures so I thought I would so you all could see what I am talking about
the awesome thing about these it that the characters then know my kids names and it is pretty easy to keep track of whose autographs we still need
it is funny when we see a character multiple times and they have already signed - they always seem a little disappointed they don't get to sign!! We get comments from the CM's, the characters, other guests and Julia looks at her books ALL the time - I use them as her trip scrapbook and it is just perfect!!!!
For our quick 4 day trip in May - instead of making the 6x6 pages - I went ahead and made them 4x6 - then I bought her the Happiest Celebration on Earth Princess album and put the cards in before the pictures of the character - again s he loves this book and looks at it all the time - if you think you are not inclined to scrapbook the pictures when you get home - I think this is a great option!!!!!
to make the 6x6 cards - I buy a pack of 12x12 cardstock at Michaels - i wait until they are sale or use the 40% off coupon and then I cut them into 4 6x6 squares.
I have the characters in a word table so then I make a mail merge document and get my words organized - then i merge them into a new document and go through and make sure they are all on the page - the size of the character sometimes causes the words to fall onto the next page and I make any necessary adjustments and then print -
I take a small clipboard that costs less than $1 at the office supplies stores and a bunch of sharpies (Julia and I like to coordinate the character to the color of their outfit - except princesses have to be pink or purple - for example peter pan signs in green - so we always buy the mega pack!!!) and put them in a ziploc baggie - then at night we do take out the ones we already had signed so we don't keep carrying them throughout the week - i also always print blank ones - there always seems to be a rare character we forgot to put in around or thie time the mickey one got wet and we had to have him sign a blank page
feel free to ask questions -
kate
) Thanks for the great ideas. I do have a question, are sharpies better that markers or pens for autographs?
Those are great! I really like them.kadaten said:Can I add some autograph pages?
I prepared all the pages before we went and had them in a 6x6 album arranged according to groups (Fab 5, Cinderella and everyone from her movie, etc...). Had lots of plain pages in the back, in several colors. Carried the album and about 15 colors of pens in a gallon ziplock in our park bag. Had them sign directly on page and added photos when we got home.
Some done before we left:
And now one I didn't have ready before we left....had her sign on the plain blue paper, and just coordinated picture page when I got home.
It was quite a trip! We ended up getting 56 different autographs that trip. I'd done 40 of the pages before we left, and luckily had taken enough extras for the others. (I have to admit, I did not make pages beforehand for Queen of Hearts and King Louie....but did when I got home!) As you can see, some are more involved than others, but it was lots of fun to do, and I just used scrapping supplies I already had on hand. Now if only any of my other albums were actually done....
TIP: Make sure to put "this book belongs to..." and your name and address somewhere in the book (or any autograph book!). If, heaven forbid, it is lost in the parks, if they find an address in it, Disney will mail it back to you!
It took me all of 1 minute to get through 3.5 pages, with all the bob the builder graphics and Katie's autograph pages. That would have taken me 15 minutes on dial-up. Life is good!
