Disney Loving Peas / Universal Loving Peas

They do not pass out maps at the gate anymore! But they do have them, you need to ask to get one. They’re definitely stingy with them compared to years past where there would be stacks of them everywhere.

Same. Have some pics of a day we spent there at the Harry Potter stuff.

blemon Congrats on getting your stuff out and building a kit for your Disney memories!

Here are a few videos to get your creative juices flowing (including some 9x12 pages):

Just LOVE this Disney video by Lisa -- itsjustpaper
Phenomenal layouts, all 12X12. She does a lot of painting, watercolor, and stitching.
Just gorgeous.

YouTube video

I hope it’s okay if I join in here. I’m a huge Disney fan, but I thought our 2017 Christmas trip to WDW would be our last, because our kids are grown. The 2017 trip was planned by our oldest son and his family, and we were invited to join them. DH seemed willing to go, but I didn’t think he enjoyed it enough to go back. DH had to have back surgery in December 2020, then he had a widow maker heart attack in March of 2021 and survived it. He is still recovering, but is doing so much better that I recently asked my DH where he’d like to go once has recovered enough, if money were no object. He didn’t even hesitate: “Disney World!” I was amazed and thrilled.

So now we are planning a trip there, and he is driving me nuts watching YouTube videos of tips and tricks. I’m delighted that we have this to look forward to, but realizing that I still need to get our last trip scrapbooked.

The earliest we could go would be the fall, and everything will be decorated for Halloween. Depending on his recovery and our income, the trip may not be till next year.

The hoped for trip to WDW be our first trip to Disney without kids since we went there for part of our honeymoon. We went to WDW with our kids 4 times over the years, but never just by ourselves. We’re really looking forward to this! I may have questions at some point, especially since I still need to finish scrapbooking our last trip, but for now, I just wanted to see if it’s okay to join in this thread. I’m not a Disney expert, but I’m definitely a Disney fan!

Wow. That was incredible. How beautiful. As soon as COVID is over we are going to Disney Paris. I will let you know. We were planning a 2020 trip, well, then, you know...



This happened to my Dad when he was 50. We are both so lucky! He survived as well and is doing great. He just had a birthday (over 70 now!) and his doctor was very pleased at his most recent appointment. I'm so glad to hear your DH is recovering and wants to go to Disney!!



Welcome!! I just joined as well ad I didn't know it existed before recently. I decided to go back and scrap our old trips. I'm starting with our Delta adventure in 2021 then doing the others.



I second Touring Plans. I don't ever buy the book. I just get it for the personalized plans and the app. I love planning every minute of our days so that I have information and a back up for when things go wrong (and they do! There's always a downpour and you never know when it's going to happen. Or you need to have a rest).

I think Halloween is an awesome time to go.

In 2018 my best friend and I went on a friends trip and had a blast. We did one day at the Christmas Party and one day at Epcot. This was like the first weekend of December so it wasn't very crowded.

My suggestion is to not try to pack everything in but to take your time and pick some must-sees and let the rest flow. That way you can have a restful time while still enjoying it.

So excited for you!!



News for me: I rummaged through my daughter's sticker bin and pulled out all the Disney. She's a teenager now and doesn't care for stickers like she used to. I struck GOLD and found a sticker the monorail driver gave her. It's very cool. She also had hoarded a bunch of the circle stickers they give you in the parks. We have Disney visa and they are always sending stickers so I have a bunch of those. I'm thinking of doing something cool with those like making a grid on acetate and using those stickers for some spots and photos and ephemera for others.

Also, I watched a lot of videos and believe I have figured out Lightning Lane and Genie+ so I can probably answer questions.

There's only one thing I'm not sure of and it seems like sometimes with Genie+ they may move your time to earlier if a spot opens up. I am not too into that, as a planner. I need to figure out that a bit more.

Does SB have free shipping codes? Yes, but not often. There was one in December for a short duration. Prior to that it had been a couple months. Lately it’s been like a 5% discount. They usuayhave codes and offers in a banner at the top. Or on the homepage.

One benefit to the SC album would be extra rings, so they’re closer together than standard three ring. That could be handy for including things outside the pp. I always find the standard three rings are juuuuuust too far apart for that.

Definitely let me know! I noticed you followed my dormant DLP account (well, I set it up to share with dawnnikol and Skellinton originally). Makes me sad (and mad, to be honest) that I haven't been able to post anything since late 2019. These daily trips used to rhythm my year. Ugh, this virus, I swear. Fingers crossed for an Omicron booster shot and some sense of ok-ish normalcy afterwards so I can start taking the bullet train again and taking day trips all over the country. Especially Disneyland!

scrapnnana I'm so happy your husband continues to get better and now has something to look forward to even if all the WDW videos are driving you a little potty.    WDW isn't my home resort so I can't really say but I do think the decorating is limited to the Magic Kingdom. Could be wrong though! I seem to remember from vlogs that it is (mostly?) a Magic Kingdom thing. 

I did! I read through the thread to see if there was anything I missed and I definitely missed that. I followed you with my real account not the one I post my scrapbook stuff to. I still haven't come out of the closet as a scrapbooker yet. Only my close friends know.
Ha.

I assume you were vacationing with them or were there at Disney the same days as they were? If you were in any of the photos, there should be no problem with you asking for the username and password so you can download photos, too, even though the aunt had the photopass. That’s one of the benefits, to get lots of photos of family members who were at the park(s) together. They don’t expect the whole family to be together for every photo taken with the photopass. It’s up to the one who paid for the pass to make the photos available to the others in the family, but that isn’t intended to force everyone in your family to get the photopass. You aren’t doing anything wrong by asking for the username and password so that you can access and download the photos you want from it. The exception would be if you were NOT there at the same time, and you just wanted some of the special photos that are included as a perk of the photopass. For example, I was delighted to get some delightful generic but gorgeous photos of park scenes that were taken without the crowds, or close up of performers from the shows. They were perfectly framed, and nicer than I or anyone else in our group could have gotten, even though we have some decent photographers in the family.

When we went in 2017, it was essentially a family reunion. I paid for the photopass, but DS#2 arranged for it, so it went under his name. Everyone in our family group got linked to it, so we all had photos taken through the photopass. The downside was that because DS#2 set it up, it was technically “his” photopass, so he had the username and password. We got it from him, then downloaded the photos we wanted.