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Karen

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Okay, so crisis might be overstating it, but I feel like I'm at a crossroads and don't know how I should proceed... :)

So... I need help deciding how to proceed with my photobook printing. Ever since I started scrapping, I've had a family album (mine) and one book for each of my two boys. When I started digi-scrapping I was so excited that I could include the same page in each boys book without having to actually scrap the page twice. Then I listened to an episode of the digi-show a few weeks ago and I think it was Peppermint who said she doesn't print anything for her son because she figures that by the time he wants the pages, there will be some great technology that will be superior to printing in photobooks or individual pages. It had been bugging me lately anyway trying to figure out which of my pages belong in my book and which ones also should go in each boy's book. Plus, with boys, I'm worried they won't ever care to have this huge stack of 12x12 books that I'm accumulating anyway.

Now I can't decide if I should just quit printing them books altogether and just include one copy of everything in the family book OR if I should still do a book for them, but only include pages that only pertain specifically to them. Like, if I put a page in the family book, it doesn't go in theirs?

Help! I need some opinions from both perspectives and tell me what I should do!! :dizzy
 
I, personally, only do one book. For myself and for my family right now. I don't know yet if I'll give books to my kids or if I'll hoard them all until I die. I figure that if they both want books they can fight about who gets which one when the time comes. Or, I'll print out more pages at that point. But my kids are so young (1 & 3) that I am certainly not going to print 3 books for the next 15-17 years!
 
i used to do albums for each of my kids and i would make sure that I also included their pages in the family album. Then one day I was looking through my son's album and saw all kinds of pages about him and only a few of his sisters in there, a couple of the dog, 1 of his grandma. And I thought-who am I to decide which layouts he would like to have? And in doing so I excluded a lot of great family stuff from his book that didn't necessarily pertain to him. So I decided to only do a family album and when he leaves home I will print all our family books and give them to him as a Christmas gift. Then he will have all our memories.
 
i'm no help i don't print anything. i scrapped paper from 2004-2010 exclusively. I have over 60 paper albums. I didn't duplicate or separate. As it is the boys are going to backing up the dumpster and getting rid of loads of them. So I keep everything in digital format and someday there will be an easy way for them to view them as Peppermint said on that video.

So long answer short - I think printing family albums is fine. Just organize your layouts into folders for your boys so they will each have family pages and pages about them individually. I hope that helped?
 
so far i've been doing an album for me, and one for each of the girls ... not sure if i'll continue this or not ?!? good question!
 
Tough question. I have no ideas for you, but I'm really interested in hearing what others are doing.

I've been putting together a single family album per year (although really it has only been for 2009 and 2010, and I have yet to print 2011 since I'm back-scrapping). The boys really like to look at them, and they are the first ones I've printed. Printing is sooooo expensive, I paid half price, but together they were $158 including shipping for an average of 150 pages each.
 
Just another thought. For the kids when they leave to collage, they probably will have a 12x12 digital photo frame by then, and you could just give them digital images of the books. That way they take up very little space at all.
 
I just do one album and they can fight over it when I'm dead. I only have one girl, so I imagine she will take them. LOL
 
and until they leave home they flip through them on the computer and maybe by then printing will be cheaper or there will be a better way like a coffee table digital book.
 
I'm not very consistent at printing. That being said, here's my theory on this.

Everything I create I'll stick in an album for me.

Then back up the layouts by the year they pertain to and insert a DVD copy or something along those lines on the inside cover of the album(s) for that year.

If they want to have layouts printed later on, they can easily pull out the backup disks and compile the layouts they want into an album.
 
Well I haven't figured this one out for myself yet either. When I started I'd put all of the pages I did in Caleb's album and then any family ones went in a family album yet once Mathieu was born I had his album as well but like you said, now they're missing out on great family pages. I've printed all my pages but haven't put them all in albums yet. My plan (I think) is to give them each their own "1st year" album and then whatever goes in the album goes in the album. I don't scrap chronologically and I don't scrap everything from the same year. I"m always going back and forth. I think I'll just divide each album in to years.... maybe.. lol!
 
I just print one copy of whatever album I'm making unless it's a gift going to someone else. I can always print off pages, albums, whatever later if DD wants her own. Even though the albums are abt my family, they are FOR me. ;)
 
RebeccaH said:
Then back up the layouts by the year they pertain to and insert a DVD copy or something along those lines on the inside cover of the album(s) for that year.

If they want to have layouts printed later on, they can easily pull out the backup disks and compile the layouts they want into an album.
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This is such a clever idea. I'm totally stealing this. Thanks, Rebecca!
 
RebeccaH said:
I'm not very consistent at printing. That being said, here's my theory on this.

Everything I create I'll stick in an album for me.

Then back up the layouts by the year they pertain to and insert a DVD copy or something along those lines on the inside cover of the album(s) for that year.

If they want to have layouts printed later on, they can easily pull out the backup disks and compile the layouts they want into an album.
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Oh... good idea to include the DVD right in the album. I do back up my LOs, but someone else may have trouble finding all that stuff.
 
Heather Prins said:
And I thought-who am I to decide which layouts he would like to have? And in doing so I excluded a lot of great family stuff from his book that didn't necessarily pertain to him.
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This is kind of what started my hang up about my current system. I scrap until I have enough to fill or nearly fill a Shutterfly book and then I order a full book, but when it came to the kids book I didn't want duplicate of everything, but I had a really hard time picking which ones belonged in their books. I just know that if I stop printing their books now, I'll never go back and do it because it would be too much $$$ all at once. I save up and do each book for the best sale I can find, but only order one at a time or else it just seems like too much moolah!

I really think that just handing them a DVD or jump drive with all my scrapbook pages will be a better solution in the long run. I hate to think that I'm getting these books and they aren't going to value them in the future and would possibly just throw them away. Horrors!

But then... if they aren't printed or in a book... they are probably never going to look at them anyway. So I have to decide, are these pages for me or for them or both? Sigh... keep the ideas coming! I'm loving seeing what everyone else thinks!
 
I don't print any of my pages, not because I don't want to, but I've just never got around to it.
But I am just scrapping for the present. I figure by the time my kids leave home, not only won't they want a heap of heavy scrapbooks to lug around, not only will there be better ways to store and peruse our layouts, but I will probably be staring at my older LOs in shame thinking how crap they are! And so if I do want to give them a book, I will make a new one with highlights from their whole life. Just like people make 3 weeks before a 21st right now! And because it is new, they won't take one glance, see the pages they've already seen a million times and then promptly store it in the attic. (well maybe they still will).
And all my old LOs will still be available for them to look through or copy whenever they like.
 
LeeAndra said:
I just print one copy of whatever album I'm making unless it's a gift going to someone else. I can always print off pages, albums, whatever later if DD wants her own. Even though the albums are abt my family, they are FOR me. ;)
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Yes, this is my philosophy too. The albums are kept out in the family room so they get looked at a lot by everyone. I have them divided similar to Stacy Julian's system:
For each year I create three albums, for example
2011 All About Us - these are personality layouts with subcategories of the whole family, then a spot for each person, Mom/Dad & Me (for LO's about parent/child relationships),and a sibling section (for LO's about sibling relationships)
2011 Places We Go/People We Love/Things We Do - pretty self explainitory, the people we love is for LO's about extended family or friends
2011 Celebrations & Traditions - for birhtdays, holidays, reunions, etc.

I figure any layouts my kids want when they leave home can be printed when that time comes. The beauty of digi!
 
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