Can I get some opinions?

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breakingbrie

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I hear some of you girls talking about specific albums for your kids... Like themes, song inspired albums, or one for each kid... I have twins, and eventually someday I expect these books will be passed on to them to keep when they're older. Would you make albums specifically for each? Like eventually organize all layouts of Caitlyn into an album for her, and all of Chloe's into one for her? But then, what to do with all the los with both girls in them? Print 2 of each so they don't fight over it? Would you be specific enough to make sure they each have the same amount of los so one doesn't feel slighted?

I have a few layouts that I'll eventually like to have a photobook printed just for them, but mostly I'll be printing single prints that I can just slide into the pages of my albums. This has been on my mind for a while now, and it's driving me crazy because I really want to organize now so I can just stick with whatever I decide.

How do you organize yours for multiple kids?
 
I have books for Katie, books for Paul, books of them together, and family books. Don't know if that's how I'm going to keep doing it, but it seems fine so far...
 
I dont' have twins, but I do have two boys, and I'm making 1 family album that they can fight amongst themselves when I'm gone. I don't really expect these albums to leave my possession until I'm dead :p They can split them how they'd like, and I can always print off a few photo books for a baby book when either of them have babies to have for their kids, but I view these are our books about our family.

I also don't have a problem with them taking a few layouts and making their own little family book when they leave the house. But the bulk will stay with me, darnit!~
 
I would do separate albums for each of the girls and then for layouts about both of them, print 2. I'd also keep a separate "family" album for events and such.
 
This is how I have mine done as well - one for each boy and then a family one, and one of them together.

cheltzey said:
I have books for Katie, books for Paul, books of them together, and family books. Don't know if that's how I'm going to keep doing it, but it seems fine so far...
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I make shutterfly books so the lo's themselves can't be split up. I just make a family album and I'm like Darcy.....someone will have to pry them out of my cold dead hands...then I doubt it will be a huge fight...they can either disperse them amongst themselves (I have 6 volumes printed already) or....Naomi being the only girl and the only one who will likely care about them ;) will take them all! LOL!
 
Well, I do photobooks, but I imagine I would do the same if I printed the pages individually. Funny you asked this, because I just ordered books for my girls TODAY! So here's what I did and will continue to do.

It totally depends on what you like. I do mine by year. First I printed a 2007 album full of every single layout from that year. One girl, both girls, just me and hubby, all of us, everything. And then, I did separate out layouts with just one girl. So, I am printing a Kathryn 2007 album and a Hannah 2007 album. Both albums will have all the layouts with BOTH girls in them, plus all the layouts with just the girl it's about. Does that make sense? Even though they're young, they will love them now. My oldest is thrilled to be getting her "own" book (she's almost 4). And if I can see it won't be taken care of, I'll keep it until they are older. Anyway, that's what I'm doing.
 
I have separate books for my two, and I start a new book after each b-day. If they are both in a LO that pertains to both of them then I get 2 prints of it :)
 
Darcy Baldwin said:
I also don't have a problem with them taking a few layouts and making their own little family book when they leave the house. But the bulk will stay with me, darnit!~
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LOL. I'm so protective of my albums! Right now they are for me, I just know when they're older I'll want to give them to them to keep. I totally obsess over them being twins and one getting more or getting something the other one doesn't. :unsure: Maybe I'm just worrying too much, overthinking it!! lol.
I'd like to eventually get around to making nursery rhyme books with layouts, one for each, just with los of them. I definately think that would be cool.
 
cheltzey said:
I have books for Katie, books for Paul, books of them together, and family books. Don't know if that's how I'm going to keep doing it, but it seems fine so far...
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I do this too. A book for each kid and then a book of them together.
 
I've been thinking a lot about this lately. I do have individual books for my girls and they will get their books when they're old enough to have them. I have a family fun book started that includes all of the LOs of our family events, memories, holidays, etc... I also have a book started for myself too.

And now I'm thinking of starting a book about Sisters, and I'll include all of the LOs of them together. Once they grow up and move out, I'm not sure who'll get that one. Oh well, they're 7 months and 4.5, so I have time to ponder it. LOL!

I'm trying to use Stacy Julian's album system. I'm slowly getting there.

Oh, and I print my pages individually, so I can change my books around if I don't like how they're organized.
 
I think that is the beauty of digi though because you can print 1 or a dozen copies and the layout is still there if you ever need more:-) I make alot of layouts of my daughter and not so much of my boys and they dont feel so bad about it...they choose not to have their picture taken as often as she does. Most of the photos of them are of them blcoking their face somehow Not because I dont want to make them layouts also but because I just do not have as many photos of them.
 
Right now I have 1 album per child per year, and I start a new one at each birthday. Any layouts with both of them get printed twice so they each have a copy. I don't count to be sure everything is 100% even, but I make sure the books are about the same thickness at the end of the year. At some point in the future, when they're older and I'm taking fewer photos, I'll probably switch to 1 yearly family album.

The one thing I don't like about my current approach is that one day far in the future when they have their own albums at their own homes, they won't have all the best pictures of their siblings. I know that when I look through my childhood photo albums, I want to see my brother and sister's big moments as well as my own. That said, 1 family album isn't the right solution for me right now either. I wouldn't print 3 copies of everything so I could have a copy for each of them. Also, 1 album for the family would be overwhelming and I'd only be able to fit 3 or 4 months in each album once DD arrives. That's another big reason I've stuck with 1 album per child--it seems wrong for DS1 to have so many years of his own albums, then DS2 and DD to just have all their LOs mixed into family books. So I'll wait until they all have a few individual albums done, then switch at some point in time that makes sense to me, like when they're all in full day school. Or maybe I won't switch at all. (Helpful, huh?)
 
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I like hearing how you all organize your printed layouts/books! I think it's a good idea to do individual books for each, with layouts of both printed twice for each girl. Hmmm, I suppose any family ones could be printed twice for each book, I don't see myself keeping family ones separate - and even if I change my mind on that, I can always change later on since I'm printing single layouts. But I think I'll have a book just for me(thanks to you lovely ladies with your awesome challenge) now that I'm actually scrapping some about myself now! Since that is more personal and more for me anyways. Thanks for all your input ladies!!
 
I have 4 boys, including a set of twins. They each have their own series of albums...supposedly in chronological order...or at least eventually anyway, since I skip around big time. I've been a paper scrapper for many years and really hated doing the same layout twice, or 4 times, so I rarely did that. One BIG reason I'm loving digi - I can just print as many as I need.

Organizing my layouts is one of my weak points though...I just recently went through them all (since they weren't even in albums, but in boxes) and have stacks about 2-3 feet high for each boy...all sitting in my living room waiting for me to put them in albums. OK, SOME of them are in albums, but they all need to be reorganized. Ugh. I hate even thinking about it. :( And I definitely don't think about what will happen to the albums when I'm gone.
 
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