caangel
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Post by caangel on Jun 2, 2020 5:22:44 GMT
How do you approach scrapping reoccurring trips to the same location over many years/trips?
We have a family cabin that we have been going to 1-2+ times a year since it was built in the 2000s. I take lots of pictures each trip but don't really want to document it as a separate vacation album each time since it can be repetitive year after year. There are some photo traditions that we do each visit: cousins in from of the fireplace in matching PJs and my kids in front of a totem pole that lend themselves to scrapping multi years together.
I was listening to Stacy Julian's Exactly Enough Time podcast on INSD called Out of Order and I'm considering using her LOM People, Places, Things organization for a cabin album. I think it will allow me to scrap the photos I have in a big picture way vs visit by visit. I see combining photos from multiple years. And maybe using pocket pages to continuously add the reoccurring photos to pages that will build over time.
I might do this for my Disney album too. We live about 25 miles away an will visit after school with friends if we have a free afternoon or my Mom's group will so a MNO on a Friday. So I have lots of Disney photos that aren't part of a big trip or all day visit. Doing the LOM People, Places, Things approach I think will let me tell better stories than I do when I scrap focused on a visit.
My yearly books will stay Chrono and my vacation albums are mostly Chrono photo books with some themed approaches depending on the vacation. I've been interested in the LOM approach but I knew it wouldn't work for me in my yearly albums.
What do you do? Has anyone approaches theme albums this way?
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 2, 2020 11:26:34 GMT
That could work. We spend a week with our grandchildren every summer at my parent's lake home. A lot of those photos are the same, swimming, fishing, etc. It might be really fun to see our grandchildren grow up in consecutive layouts, instead of spread out over many books.
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Post by LisaDV on Jun 2, 2020 11:33:09 GMT
I'd probably a layout or so from each trip and then collect photos for pages through the years. all in one album.
We play lots of games and do a lot of cooking at my house. I've done a few game or cooking pages. Then I was like I don't need every single one. I now take note of each gaming photo and plan to do a whole album of just game playing. I was going to do the same for cooking. But I may do a recipe album instead.
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Post by babylou on Jun 2, 2020 13:57:46 GMT
I was going to suggest just having a separate album for those pics/memories. Add to it each year. Do one or two layouts for each showing the highlights and put it in the book. Could also add divided page protectors if you wanted to keep additional photos in there.
Another idea I had, would be to scrap something "different" each year. Instead of every year having pages that say.. we went to the cabin again etc, etc. Focus on something special or different each time. Example...scrap about how the kids have grown over the years-scrap about how you feel when you are there compared to at home-scrap about the fishing spot you found instead of the usual spot-scrap scrap about new foods you cooked or tried to cook. Etc. So, maybe a lot of the photos are the same each time, but your pages focus on different feelings and aspects of the trips.
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Post by artbabe on Jun 2, 2020 14:37:31 GMT
We go to Rehoboth Beach most years. I'm going to put all of those pages in one (probably more) albums- right now I keep them in an Iris case. I make layouts every year. I have ones since the first child was a baby up until he was 16 (last year). It is cool to see the kids grow up in the pictures. I have photos of my mom and then I have photos of the two trips we made after she died. Even though it is the same place it is interesting to see how our family has changed over the years.
I'm not a chronological scrapper. I have Christmas albums and some other albums that are about people or themes.
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Post by msliz on Jun 2, 2020 14:47:57 GMT
I have a version of this kind of album, a holiday though rather than a trip. I wanted to make a December Daily type of album, but since we don't celebrate Christmas, a countdown album wouldn't make sense.
Instead, I have photos from each Hanukkah for the last 20 years interspersed with recipes, song lyrics, and stories.
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Post by teacherlisa on Jun 2, 2020 15:48:37 GMT
When I first heard of the LOM system, I was a chrono scraper who was completely caught up. (I know, do not hate me.) But I loved what she was saying, and this system. I still keep my chrono albums up, and usually add a layout or two from my reoccuring trip each year to my chrono album. But, the rest of the photos from the trip go into a places album, about that location.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 2, 2020 16:17:01 GMT
I have vacation scrapbooks separate from my other books. I also have one scrapbook that was 2002-2016 of Las Vegas trips. I love that book. It is my only book where you see my kids actually age much. I think there are 8 trips in that book.
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Post by joblackford on Jun 2, 2020 16:50:07 GMT
I think there’s a real benefit to being “behind” on these kinds of albums and approaching them after many years have passed to see what themes you can draw out and how to tell bigger stories. At first you can’t see what will continue each year and become a tradition, but in the midst of it you also don’t see how one day it will probably change or come to an end. I really like Stacy’s approach when it comes to those kinds of memories.
I have mostly scrapped by trip or event or chronologically, but thinking about the trip we take almost every year (that we didn’t know in the beginning would become an annual thing), yes, I think it would be really interesting and revealing to pull out some of the photos from each trip and tell stories about how that trip has shifted and changed and developed over many years, and how certain years featured something different or why it didn’t happen the usual way last year, etc etc.
I mostly made photo books, which don’t lend themselves to long-developing stories, but now I’m inspired to do something a little different to pull it all together.
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Post by julieinsweden on Jun 2, 2020 16:57:32 GMT
I have a ski trip album. I make one double layout with 8-12 pictures from the week, for each year, then put them in chronologically. I like seeing how the kids have changed.
I do the same for school photos, Christmas, Halloween, and the kids birthdays.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jun 2, 2020 17:10:50 GMT
I scrapbook in chronological order.
In the past, with a now former boyfriend, we went to the same place a couple times a year to visit his family. I took photos and scrapbooked the photos, every time. We generally went differents place when we visited. Beach, marina, Los Angeles, one time...girls went to Solvang CA-guys went to car show, etc... so while it was same group of people, the activities was different.
For me, in general, repeated photos or photos ops are a common occurrence.
Example: Niece and Nephews birthday dinners, Christmas, School plays, orchestra-lunch with a student day, ball games, etc... year after year. I almost always take photos(sometimes it's a couple photos, sometimes it's a lot of photos), and I scrapbook it all, as it's a part of my life.
I use stickers a lot. I usually purchase new stickers, embellishments, paper, etc... when they come on the market.
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Post by Loydene on Jun 2, 2020 17:54:02 GMT
I've known of Stacey Julian for years; I used to think she was the total bomb but my opinions have changed as she changed her outlooks, methods and approach to scrapbooking. I'm trying to recall "LOM" -- would someone please explain.
TIA
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Post by LisaDV on Jun 2, 2020 18:54:56 GMT
If I recall correctly, LOM has your albums in categories, as broad or as narrow as you like All About Us : you and your SO together, you, your SO, your child, pets, Things We Do: Holidays, Seasons, special things for your family Places We Go: recurring trips, vacations, local places you frequent, People We Love: Extended Family, Friends. There was also a photo organization that allowed you to cross reference and get multiple years easily on one page. Even when I was almost all traditional layouts, I thought her method would have required a lot of space that I didn't have and been cumbersome for me to keep up. But now I can't remember what it was exactly.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jun 2, 2020 18:57:24 GMT
LOM- Library of Memories... Stacy Julian's way of categorizing topics / albums. People we Love, Places we Go, and a couple other ones I can't remember right now, lol. My albums are organized sort of like this: Places we Go AZ/Southwest; Places we Go IL/WI (for when we go back to visit family); Me (childhood / before I met DH); Home and Family (home, us, pets, etc.). I scrap whatever topic I want, and the layouts go into those albums mostly in chronological order. LOM People, Places, Things organization for a cabin album. I would do something similar to this, I think. A 'cabin' album to collect it all in. You could still do chonological / yearly layouts if something 'big' or 'different' happened one particular year, and then also do the over-the-years type layouts for some other topics. We go to places more than once, too, and I find different things to focus my photos and/or layouts around. We used to go to my BF's family reunion in Wisconsin every year, and the activities were always the same. So for one year, the layout I did was all close-up photography of things I saw during a walk in the woods around the cabin. You could try to make a point of taking photos of different items every time you go- focus on the surroundings, or the details of the cabin itself, for example. That way you don't end up with 'the same photos' every time you go. When we go back to Illinois we always try to go visit a small historic town for the afternoon- last time we went, I focused my photo-taking on the architectural details of the buildings, the cobblestones in the road, the layers of paint, rust, etc. It was actually a fun layout to make because it was something different and more 'artsy' than my usual pics. |
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Jun 2, 2020 20:23:50 GMT
crimsoncat05 that's exactly what I'm thinking. I'll probably do a small LO or pocket page with highlights in my yearly album to signify that we went and do a LOM approach for the cabin album for broad and narrow stories. Otherwise I can easily fill half an album with cabin pages each year. Or I avoid them completely because there's just too many and feels over whelming.
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Post by Loydene on Jun 2, 2020 20:58:08 GMT
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 4, 2020 12:43:33 GMT
I guess I do this for one category - DGS's hockey photos. I keep all the hockey stuff in separate albums. You know, in case he makes it to the NHL! Ha ha ha.
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Post by caangel on Jun 4, 2020 15:26:16 GMT
I guess I do this for one category - DGS's hockey photos. I keep all the hockey stuff in separate albums. You know, in case he makes it to the NHL! Ha ha ha. How do you organize that album? Is it just chronological? |
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Post by Skellinton on Jun 4, 2020 16:44:43 GMT
I do an album for pictures from the zoo and a local science museum we frequent. I take a lot of pictures at both and it is fun to see how everyone grows and changes through out the years. And the exhibits are always changing, so there are different pictures, but I scrap them chronologically in their own albums.
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Post by peachiceteas on Jun 4, 2020 17:38:37 GMT
I just scrap the photos and document the trip chronologically/by year like I would usually in a pocket page album.
We have a family house in France that we frequent year after year, and I scrap our trips there like any other trip.
I don't find it to be an issue or repetitive, as the memories and experiences are different. I do the majority of my documenting at 6x8 so I often find I end up with vacation-specific albums, but unintentionally - the smaller size just means that I can put all the pages for that trip together in one album.
I label my albums by 'volume' and then label the location if it ends up being an entire album of one trip. An example is I have 2018 Vol 1, 2018 Vol 2, 2018 Vol 3 France, 2018 Vol 4 Prague.
This way really works for me - I don't think I'd like to put trips to the same place over multiple years in one album. I like seeing the story over the years through yearly albums.
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Post by curiouscrafter on Jun 4, 2020 18:19:49 GMT
We take a vacation each year to the same place, so I made an album specific for those trips.
I limit it to a 2-page layout, so everytime you turn the page its the next year.
It's been fun to look back and see the different things we did each time.
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 5, 2020 0:33:57 GMT
I guess I do this for one category - DGS's hockey photos. I keep all the hockey stuff in separate albums. You know, in case he makes it to the NHL! Ha ha ha. How do you organize that album? Is it just chronological? Yes, it's chronological. It's fun to see how much he's grown! |
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