Disney Smash Book #6 Animal Kingdom, Downtown Disney, Epcot.

Hi again.... Here we go with some more Disney Trip pages.



These pages are from visiting Animal Kingdom. I used a postcard to make a pocket to store the map. I used a Disney tag as a journal card. I used some of our pictures from the safari. 


I had purchased some national geographic stickers from a clearance bin and they fit perfectly here. 

This page is the meet and greet with Dug and Russell from the movie "UP". I love that movie. I'm a disney nut and really get a kick out of meeting characters at Disney World.

I made this page from our Epcot day. It was Epcot's 30th anniversary. I kept the Times Guide stating that it was from the 30th anniversay. the park was quite busy that day. We walked around world showcase and I saved the perfume tester paper. It still makes the smash book smell great.

We went to Downtown Disney one day for some window shopping and dinner at Wolfgang Puck express.

I love this page. I just put together a bunch of journaling. I used some different cards I had. It's just all about the trip in one spot.

Top Ten things about this trip...........

Snacks we tried this trip.........










Thank you for looking.......

Disney smash.... #4. Halloween

 These pages are about going to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. We Had a fantastic time at HHN.  I used the walker girl digi from saturated Canary. It fit my page well. I used a small image for the one side and a larger image on the other page. I colored them in and set the page up before I went on vacation. the rest was added from stuff I collected and stuff I brought with me. I used the spaces on the spider web paper to do some journaling about the haunted houses. Which were AWESOME!

This is a close up of the small image and how I colored it in. I use regular colored pencils.














This is a close up of the colored in larger image and the paper and journaling.

These pages are some of the pictures we took while we were at HHN. I took a picture of the Despicable Me House because my brother and I rode the ride. It was a lot of fun. I love that movie so it was a hoot to go on the ride. My brother just went with me. I think he had fun though. The only other ride we went on while there was Men in Black. We had a blast riding that. The main focus of going was of course the Haunted Houses. We each had our favorite.

This was stuff from the night we went to Mickey's Not So Scary Hallloween Party at magic kingdom. We watched the villians show,hallowishes fireworks show and the Boo to YOU parade. We had a fantastic night. It did unfortunately rain the beginning of the evening but that did not stop us from trick or treating around the park and hitting the candy stations multiple times for lots and lots of Yummy candy.

This is some pictures taken that night. I placed them on the page under the map for the event. I used some washi tape from Queen & company with disney icons on it. I used a journaling card from one of the Smash pads and halloween stickers from k & company.

The last page I want to include in this post is below. All it is is a halloween themed popcorn box. I had popcorn the one night we were at Magic Kingdom and this is the box. I cut it in two and flattened it. Then I just smashed it in.

Thanks for taking a look.

Disney Smash...

Still continuing from previous posts... My Disney Trip.

 One side of this is about the day we arrived. On our way to The Pop Century resort we stopped at Walmart. We picked up some things to keep in the room.. water, snack, etc... Then we headed to our resort we checked and went to have some dinner at the food court. With dinner we split that wonderful cupcake.. Mickey mouse Oreo Cupcake. It was delicious. The other side is from us going to play miniature golf at Fantasia Gardens. We had a blast. I also saved the wrapper from a hand soap and the housekeeping card from our room.

On this next page I wanted to show our room #s. I used the little disney envelope they give when you check in . It holds the room key and a map of the resort. I decorated one room window and door. I had a lot of fun decorating the window and a lot of people stopped to see it when they passed.

We went to breakfast in Epcot at Akershus in the Norway pavilion.  We had our picture taken with Belle. Beauty and the Beast is Cynthia,s favorite disney movie. The breakfast buffet was good we really enjoyed it. Then later on that day we went back to epcot and stopped at the Japan pavilion. Unfortunately I don't think these lucky cats helped us as Cyn lost her prescription sunglasses. We checked with lost and found and they were never turned in... bummer.....

 Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue. It's corny of course... it is Disney after all. But it was great fun. Even my brother enjoyed it and he is always a cranky sort. We ate , we drank , we laughed. The fried chicken is absolutely wonderful.

 The beginning of the Magic Kingdom pages. We also had breakfast at chef mickeys at the Contemporary Resort. I LOVE having breakfast at chef mickeys before going to magic kingdom. It just seems fitting to start the day with Mickey while in Walt Disney World. We were at Magic Kingdom as it opened and got to ride a lot of rides prior to the park getting super super busy. We also ate a few snacks during the course of the day. I took a picture of Peter pan because it seems the only time we ride it is first thing in the morning otherwise it just gets to busy.

In the pocket on the next page I put some journaling cards and of course the map of Magic Kingdom. Magic Kingdom is mine and Cynthia's favorite park to spend time in. We always have a great time when we are there.

I hope you enjoy looking at these pages as much as I enjoyed making them. It was so relaxing every night putting things in my smash book. The pictures I added when I got home.

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.