Smashing my Disney Trip part 1

Hi... I had written in a previous post that I was going to be documenting my Disney World trip in a smash book. Well I did just that. I put together a personal "smash kit" and took it with me. I was able to smash in my book most evenings before going to bed. I'm going to now share my trip and my smash book here on my blog. I'm going to start with planning and go through the whole trip. I'll show my smash book pages at each step and maybe some other pictures from the trip as well. I hope you enjoy.

My trip was back in Sept- Oct 2012. The planning however started way before the trip. First we had to decide what resort we were going to stay at. We decided on......

After deciding to stay at the Pop Century resort, we started to decide on what ADRs(advanced dining reservations) we wanted to make. Disney allows you to make these 180 days in advance of your trip. We decided on a bunch of great restaurants we wanted to eat at during out trip. This would change a few times prior to our trip. So these pages are when we decided to stay at the Pop Century resort and then of me making our original dining reservations. 

These pages are when we decided to cut back on a lot of our dining reservations. We cut back due to cost considerations. The other page is about getting my lines pin, which is a Disney chat I belong to through touringplans.com I also had to show pictures of our Disney trip countdown. I love going to Disney and drive everyone crazy when we plan a trip to go. 

The next pages are reminder pages... I wrote down little reminders for the trip. I also made a pocket to keep all the check lists in. i always write out tons of lists, packing lists, shopping lists, lists of things we want to do etc... 

Well that's it for now. Next up will be packing and arrival day. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. 

My Smash Book!

I have been working on collecting things in my pretty pink smash book. I have put a lot of things into already. It is kind of a catch-all book of all things. Things that mean something to me. Which means of course that there are a  lot of dog related pictures in it.

I guess I should explain what a smash book is. It is sort of like a scrapbook. I do some scrapbooking as well but in some ways I enjoy this more. Maybe it reminds me of being younger. I remember having a book that I saved things in a combination journal/scrapbook. Little things like movie tickets and certain pictures or a pressed flower and then a note about what it was. Well this is the same, at least that's how I'm using mine. So it's alittle messy as well as a little creative and in some ways a bit chaotic.  =)

This is what the book looked like before I started adding things to it. It comes with a pen/glue stick combo to make it easy to add things to the book.

This is what it looks like now that I have added all kinds of fun things.




Now for some of the fun stuff!!

1st page Isabella from Disney's Phineas & Ferb

Now the next few pages.............

I added a pocket to hold a couple of bookmarks and a postcard.

I found a fun article in readers digest.

close up of star trek article.

Buzz Lightyear!! One of my Favorites!!!

Dachsunds.... Big Surprise right!?

My small family. My SIL graduation. She went to school when she retired... how cool.

Disney inspired fashion!! Love IT

Couple of movie tickets. Random journaling.

Two people I miss very much!!

And continuing on.........

more about  dogs!

STAR WARS!!!!

Broadway show tickets.

DOGS!!!

My Xena! I miss her!

Mickey ice cream bars

Atlantis

Favorite books.

Big Bang Theory

Things I want!

Leaves from the the first fall in our new house.. 2004

Some misc. things from Epcot.

Def leppard concert

Flowers just flowers!!!

Trip to Vermont/New Hampshire with Berry(RIP)

Disney

More Disney

Misc quotes

Buster and jilly My babies!!!

Just some random things about me.

some of my favorite amime. 

Pixar and studio-ghibli films

Cynthia... my love

Card from a dear friend

Rosie(RIP)

Rainbow bridge

Friend

So that's my book. I have a couple more that I am working on. I find I like keeping them kind of random. so I add to them when the mood strikes or if I want to remember something. I have so much fun collecting things to put in them. Anything from movie tickets to napkins to well.. just about anything.

Well thanks for looking.