Oh Mickey, You’re So Fine {2012 Edition}

Y’all know how I adore a good themed outfit?  Well, Mother was a complete doll to sew up a whole week’s worth for our impending Disney World trip!!  I used fabrics left over from last year, drew up a whole bunch of ideas and Mother outdid herself (as usual) sewing them up.

My jaw dropped when she unveiled this positively precious shirt for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom.  O.M.G. it doesn’t get ANY cuter than this Santa Mickey!



And the Mickey Reindeer shirts are equally as darling.  I think they’ll don these on Epcot day when we are attending the Candlelight Processional!  *squeals with delight*



The PCP still fits in his shirt from last year’s trip, so Mother made a matching one for Whit (he wore a shortall last time).  I had a friend monogram them in the Disney font.  These are short sleeved so I have a black long sleeved tee to wear under if it’s chilly.



These were among my favorites from last year’s trip so I had to have them again in bigger sizes :-)  These are also short sleeved so they have long sleeved white tees to go under if needed.



The littles wore these outfits last year as well!  Mother had to make a new tee for the baby, but their shorts still fit if we have the weather for them.  I have red long sleeved tees to go under if needed. 



I ordered these over the summer when the Disney store was having some great online deals.  [HONEY STOP READING NOW!]  I bought one for each of us and cannot wait to wear them.  Honey is going to D.I.E. :-)



Alright, last up are fleece hoodies that I (yes, all by myself!) embellished with Mickey heads for the littles.  I used pellon iron on paper to adhere the heads.  Y’all, PLEASE keep your fingers crossed that these survive our trip and back home so that Mother can sew around them.  I figure these will come in handy as the nights will get cooler and we have plenty of plans to see a heaping of parades and holiday lights and such!

 
I have a slew of jeans and red converse for the boys…pretty much for every day.  Now, I must take a moment to wipe away a tear as I fear this will be the very last time I’ll be putting the PCP in appliqued shirts.

Oh Mickey, you’re so fine!!
xoxo

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3rd Annual Snowflake Breakfast: Scout + Mickey

Our friendly family elf, Scout, is back once again for the holiday season!!!  He flew in last night and worked his little elfin fingers to the bone preparing perfectly elf-sized portions of breakfast favorites for our third annual Scout's Snowflake Breakfast.  And this year, the jolly little elf teamed up with our favorite mouse to announce a grand surprise for the littles…




…we’re headed to DiSnEy WoRlD in SIX dAyS!!!!!



Scout donned his very own set of miniature ears for the affair and dazzled the littles with his requisite elfin sized eats.  All of the decor was left over from the baby’s Mickey Mouse birthday party so it was a snap to pull together and Scout didn’t spend a dime (hear that Honey??)!

 

Mother made the positively DARLING stockings for the littles.  We’ll use these for their “Messages from Mickey” treats while staying at the mouse house.





Mickey silhouettes dressed up mini fruit cups.



I used toothpicks to stick donut holes (Trader Joes) to mini powdered donuts (Publix).



Scout always brings tiny strawberry yogurt cups topped with granola and they are always a hit.  Mini apples were too cute to pass up when I spied them in Trader Joes.



Mini ego waffles were stuck together with toothpicks to make Mickey heads.  I ever so briefly thought about making mini Mickey pancakes, but quickly realized just how early that would require me to wake up and nipped that idea right in the bud.







 

To say the littles were excited would be an incredible understatement.  They came into the kitchen totally unsuspecting…





…and were still in disbelief even after we confirmed that he “read it right"!
 




I might as well warn y’all now that this blog is going to be busting at the seams with all things MICKY MOUSE for the next couple of weeks. :-)

SIX days, y’all!!
xoxo

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New Faces at the Hopping Lamp

I'm sure you've heard them, but Pixar announcements have been coming out left and right. Yes, aside from the nice new posters for Monsters University (opening June 21st), we've been getting more details on upcoming projects.

However, the details don't exactly tell us what projects they are. No word on any titles or what the release dates are, just information concerning who is on board for these said films.

What we know is that Teddy Newton will make his directorial debut soon. Teddy Newton is a Pixar veteran, who directed the groundbreaking Day & Night (the short attached to Toy Story 3) and also has a distinct voice which he provided for characters like the news announcer in The Incredibles and Chatter Telephone in Toy Story 3. He also notably supplied his voice for Brad Bird's excellent Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Pixar has been giving people outside the Lasseter-Stanton-Docter trio a shot at lead director lately: Lee Unkrich with Toy Story 3 and the untitled Dia De Los Muertos, Brad Lewis with Cars 2, Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews with Brave, Dan Scanlon with Monsters University and Bob Peterson with The Good Dinosaur.

The screenplay will be penned by Safety Not Guaranteed scribe Derek Connolly (pictured above). Safety Not Guaranteed was a critical darling, and the directorial debut of Colin Trevorrow, who was one of the desired directors for the next chapter of Star Wars; though he confirmed that he won't be directed it. That being said, Pixar is really branching out with their choice of screenwriters as well. Early on, talent like Joss Whedon would often contribute to the writing, but most of the film are written and handled by the Brain Trust members themselves or veterans. Another example of this is Michael Arndt, who was given the Herculean task of writing the screenplay for Toy Story 3 and making sure it stuck to the main tone of the first two while going a decidedly darker and less comedic route than its predecessors. Recently, Pixar hired Mad Men writer Marti Noxon to provide the screenplay for a film, many of which have speculated that it will be the currently untitled film that's slated to hit theaters on November 25, 2015.

Teddy Newton's film may or may not be the November 2015 title, plus we have no idea on what Noxon was hired for. Who knows, Noxon could've been attached to Unkrich's film or maybe something else entirely. As usual with Pixar, most of the details about their upcoming projects are drenched in secrecy. After all, it makes speculating fun.

Rumors are going around about Pete Docter's "Inside the Mind" film. The title is supposedly Inside Out, but it may not be. We may find out soon enough, though.

So now, we've got...

Monsters University - June 21, 2013
The Good Dinosaur - May 30, 2014
"Inside the Mind" - June 19, 2015
Untitled - November 25, 2015
"Dia De Los Muertos" - TBD
Finding Nemo 2* - TBD
Untitled Teddy Newton Film - TBD

Given Pixar's one film a year routine, I have a feeling the untitled 2015 film will move, but again you never know. There's a lot to look forward to. The more Pixar news, the more excitement...

The Baby’s Portrait + Ramsign Winner

Do y’all remember back in September when I dolled up the baby for his three year formal portrait?  Well, Mother and I picked it up last week and I am just speechless.  It perfectly captures his precious personality and fleeting innocence, and I can’t help but smile every time I walk past it in the dining room.  We’ve been anxiously saving his spot for three years!







John’s portrait was done at the very same age, in front of the very same fence, in a very similar outfit (I wanted them to each have one to pass down) three short (but so long in many ways) years ago.  I will treasure these.  Always.

And while I have the baby on my mind, I have to share an exchange from earlier in the week...  While he was cutting paper at the kitchen table (a "job" he takes very seriously and performs so many times a day that it's a wonder I have anything left to write on), I reminded him that we need to clean up the play room before bed.

To which he replied in his practiced and most authoritative voice "Mommy I very busy and I not a octopus."  And I'm outsmarted by the baby.  Again!

Lastly, I want to thank everyone that entered my Ramsign giveaway!  I loved reading what numbers you'd choose and what styles were your favorites.  So, without further ado, the lucky winner (by way of random number generation) is... drumroll please...

Christine of Sweet Girl Design!!  It just so happens that I adore her choice (not that it's binding or anything) "Love the Metropolitan - that blue is gorgeous! I would get "4" for my 4 boys - it would be terrible to leave such a pretty sign behind if I ever moved!! :)"  

CoNgRaTs!!!  Look for an email from me lickety split!
xoxo

"Wreck-It Ralph" Scribe Will Co-Direct "Frozen"

Walt Disney Animation Studio's Frozen is not due out until November 27, 2013, but it's probably in some form of production right now. However, Disney surprisingly added another director to the project today, Wreck-It Ralph screenwriter Jennifer Lee.

This raises a lot of questions. First off, why so late in the game? Was something not working with what director Chris Buck had? It's no secret that Disney's adaptation of The Snow Queen was on and off at the studio for many years, dating back to the 1990s even. Perhaps the problems from the earlier versions are still present?

Or did Disney feel the need to add her to the project due to Wreck-It Ralph's success? If so, that seems like a bizarre move. Sure, Lee and Phil Johnson's screenplay for Wreck-It Ralph was a winner, but wouldn't Disney bring her on board the project as a writer and not a director? It all seems strange...

What are your thoughts on this move?

Making Spirits Bright

 
Pretty happy to have dropped these in the mail.  Merry Christmas, y’all!
xoxo

Best Animated Short - 1965

Ah, the joys of residency interviews. People keep saying that these are informal and that the residencies are making sure that we can work well with the staff in that facility, but that's what they said about medical school interviews. You still have dozens of people interviewing for one spot, so the chances of you getting that one spot is much diminished. Perhaps I'm still haunted by my med school interview season back in 2008-09, one that ended up with me getting waitlisted on seven schools in ten interviews, even though I was told that the interviewers liked me. Thinking back to those days turn me into a nervous wreck like Rainbow Dash over there. Maybe that's why I bomb these interviews. I can only think back to my failures and that set me into a cycle of failure. Well today is my ninth interview (at Eastern Virginia Medical School, which waitlisted me in 2008) so hopefully I can keep my composure, but I doubt it. Perhaps that's why I scheduled 27 interviews and am planning on going to all of them. Because part of me knows that's what it's going to take in order to get in somewhere. I wish I had the confidence to take only 5 - 12 interviews like everybody else that's doing psych at my school, but just look at poor Rainbow Dash. You think she'd be fine doing only 12 interviews in that state of mind? I thought not.

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