Just a few guidelines about my character encounters:

• I only count characters that are from Disney movies, TV shows, books, etc. I don't keep track of Streetmosphere characters, Holiday Storytellers, or Universal characters, for example, in my official count. But I still love meeting them, and they are listed in the Other section.
  
• My official character count only keeps track of how many unique characters I've met. So if I met Minnie 25 times, she only counts once on my character count. I tried to only post one picture per character per outfit, since 10 pictures of Mickey in his regular outfit might have been a bit much!
  
• A character only counts if I get a picture with them. I love taking pictures of characters in parades and shows, or even those I just missed meeting, but they don't count in my number or get listed on the site.

I love getting autographs from characters, so I've scanned all my autographs and have included them on each character page. I've also scanned in any autograph cards I have for the characters, and even extracted autographs from Photopass pictures for a few characters that don't sign.

I'm a scrapbooker, and I mostly scrap my Disney trips. Of course my favorite thing to scrap are my character encounters! I thought it might be fun to include the character layouts I've completed so far on the character pages. You can see how behind I am in my scrapping, since I have SO many more character layouts to still do!

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I've written several blog posts and taped a few podcasts with some character tips:

Character blog posts:
• Character Interaction Tips: Princesses (at Sahlin Studio)
• Character Interaction Tips: Pixar Characters (at Sahlin Studio)
• Character Interaction Tips: Villains Characters (at Sahlin Studio)
• Character Interaction Tips: Fab 5 & VIPs Characters (at Sahlin Studio)
• Which Characters Sign Autographs (at Capturing Magic)
• Tips When Meeting Characters (at Sparkly Ever After)
• Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at WDW (at Capturing Magic)
• Where to Go and What to See at Mickey’s Halloween Party at Disneyland (at Capturing Magic)
• Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party at WDW (at Capturing Magic)
• Characterpalooza (at Capturing Magic)
• Dress Up! (at Capturing Magic)
• Characters at the WDW Resorts on Halloween (at Laughing Place)
• Star Wars Weekend Characters (at On the Go in MCO)
• 2014 Princess Half Marathon Expo recap (at Running at Disney)
• Comparing the Disneyland 10k to WDW Races (at Running at Disney)
• Race Retreat during Princess Half Marathon Weekend (at Running at Disney)
• 2016 Star Wars Dark Side 5k Recap (at Running at Disney)
• July 4th Characters at Walt Disney World (at Touring Plans)
• Holiday Characters at Disneyland (at Touring Plans)
• Holiday Characters at Walt Disney World (at Touring Plans)
• Tips for Meeting Characters on a Disney Cruise (at Touring Plans)
  
  Character related podcasts for Capturing Magic:
• Episode 23: Character Tips From a Character Hunter
• Episode 38: Character Dining Tips
• Episode 52: Character Hunting
• Episode 57: Planning for Disney Halloween Parties
• Episode 63: Trip Report Capturing Magic Style
• Episode 76: Capturing Star Wars Weekends
• Episode 84: runDisney a memory keeping guide
• Episode 85: The Holidays at Disney World
• Episode 88: rundisney and Photopass
• Episode 91: New Looks for Some Disney Characters
• Episode 92: Cruise Photo Tips
• Episode 96: Disney Holiday Happenings

Many thanks to all the fellow character fans and hunters out there, whose tips and advice have helped me find many characters over the years...and made me feel like I wasn't alone in loving meeting characters! I didn't want to list the where, when, and how to meet characters on my site since there are already so many character resources. Here are a few of my favorite character sites:

• Kenny the Pirate
• Unofficial Disney Character Hunting Guide
• Character Central
• Alana Explains
• RichyDisney Character Hunting
• Character Finder Utility

Huge thanks to Britt of Britt-ish Designs for allowing me to use her Just Plain Fun kit in my layout design!

Also, thanks to Barrie Brewer for allowing me to use her picture of Sarge from an amazing AllEars event!

Finally, thanks to my friend, Tanya, for letting me bounce ideas off her, and helping me decide which of my thousands of pics to use for the site!