Good Morning D!
Oh how I love bag reveal days! I will be sure to check back in during my lunch.
School trips are EXPENSIVE aren't they None of my kiddos have one this school year but next year will be a biggie!
Have a great Friday!
Hi Tasha! I hope you had a good Friday too! Yah- school trips are very expensive! But V should have a good time. What is your big school trip next year?
OOH we get to see a new bag today YEAH.
I like your choices. We love the brown derby and have done both lunch and dinner. It is great because it is so quiet.
WE did the Plaza the last trip and it is nice.
We love Tusker House we do a late breakfast all the time.
Have a fabulous day I hope to get to play with my new toy today.
Thanks Chiara... I really would like to try the Plaza - we have never eaten there, and I have heard good things about it. Not sure I want to do B&D - I don't like that it's 2 credits, and I am not sure I want to pay OOP, especially when there are other places at DHS we'd like to go too. LOL
I don't have any non-negotiable restaurants, though I do have some favorites - Tony's Town Square - I know many people don't like it, but we've never had a bad meal there
Via Napoli in EPCOT was very good, and so was Nine Dragons, I also like Rose & Crown - and if you get there late enough you can sit and watch Illuminations.
Next trip (March) we are going only to EPCOT and I'm not sure if we are going to be able to get any dinner reservations, but I'd like to try Biergarten and Teppen Edo - though we have a Japanese steak house close to home.
When we go in September, Charlie wants to do Tusker House for breakfast again and also Cape May Café and Be Our Guest. Everything else is up to me.
It seems we always have too much trouble picking out restaurants in Epcot - if you'll remember this last trip, I changed our Epcot ADRs about once per month. LOL I just couldn't decide. First I had Chefs de France, then I had Biergarten, then Rose n' Crown and finally at the last minute, we did Akershus.
It's just super hard to decide - there are so many to choose from, but nothing that sounds really appealing to us.
I spent last Saturday cleaning up my sewing room too. And I guarantee it was much worse than yours. Its not finished yet, but I did manage to put most "stuff" away and my sewing spaces are clear. I also found a place for my serger so I can actually get to it to use it. Its been sitting in a corner for a while now.
I don't know Tess, mine was pretty bad... That corner was piled with scraps almost over my head!
And I had all of my machines lined up along that corner... I had V's machine there next to my cutting board, then my serger pushed into the corner, then the borrowed embroidery machine, finally Mr. Rocket... and piled all around it was my scraps. It was getting to be such a pain - especially when I was making my dress, because every time I needed to serge a seam, I had to flip Mr. R around and move him as far over as his cord would allow, then move the embroidery machine next to him, then pull the serger out of the corner, with barely enough space to work with it when I got it out. It was so horrible! So happy to have everything in there so nicely again. Now I need to get my fabric shelves... But first I have to get enough saved up for my new (to me) embroidery machine.
I started searching for a "new" machine and found some Rocketeers on ebay for about $200. Not going to spend that much, so I'll keep looking.
Off to the doctor's for another sinus infection visit....wish me luck.
Yah - I think $200 is a bit over priced for a Rocketeer... Don't get me wrong - I do like Mr. R a lot (most of the time...
) but I would never pay that much for him. I paid $10 for my Mr. R at Goodwill.
Oh no! I sure hope the Dr. helped! Are you feeling better now?
I can't believe I've never gone back and read your sewing story before. Very inspiring! I don't know that I could every have the patience to learn something like that though.
I see you don't have too many restaurants for Epcot. My too favorites there are Coral Reef and Rose and Crown.
Thanks Ariana! Well, it was something I really wanted to learn - and if you ever meet Josh, he will tell you that I am quite determined if I set my mind to something.
I was thinking of Coral Reef too... I just keep thinking that it would be a lot like Rain Forest Cafe - just underwater themed.
I am completely blown away by the stories of how you started sewing, restoring your machine, and how far you've come in such a short time. Amazing!
It is good to know I definitely can do this if I ever decide to. I am so impressed D!
Thank you! I am glad you saw the links I posted, I almost forgot to post them yesterday. LOL. It's never too late to learn a new hobby (or anything else for that matter) - as long as you have the desire to learn.
I hope you do take the time to learn - it's so much fun to create - and I firmly believe that having some sort of creative outlet in your life leads to having a life with meaning and fulfillment.
It looks like a very delicious list of restaurants. I think you will have to schedule another trip to get all that in.
Our one must-do restaurant has always been Cape May Cafe dinner buffet at the Beach Club. We will not go to WDW without eating dinner there. It just won't happen.
We have mostly eaten at counter service restaurants for years, decades in fact, and just started to eat at more table services. My DH never wanted to be tied down to any kind of a schedule. But I was getting extremely tired of burgers and fries, so I slowly started to add a few ADR's to our trip. It turned out that it was really nice to have something like an ADR to give our trip a little structure. So, in spite of traveling to WDW since 1973, we still have a lot of restaurants left to try. I really like having a nice sit down meal once a day. But it is so hard to just pick a few.
Yah - lol - that is a bit part of our issue... Every time we go, we have so many restaurants we want to eat at, we always end up doing some OOP... We love sit down meals at WDW, and I agree - we try to do one every day - it's just so nice to be able to sit down and eat. We did do Cape May on our March 2012 trip... Here's the link to what I wrote about it in my TR from that trip:
Cape May dinner I am not sure if we will do it again - but if I were to ever do it, I should do it while BFF is with me, so she can crack my crab for me.
Yes I've been stalking your thread all morning.
Steamboat Willie is gorgeous! I love how the fabrics carry through the whole bag and how the bright inside contrasts with the grey exterior. You definitely have one of the best eye for details that I have every seen.
Thank you Ariana! It was such a fun bag to make!
Thank you Lillian... It's so nice having you back! I miss seeing you around when you are on all of your adventures!
I LOVE all your bags but this one is incredible! I really love the gray tones with the pop of color inside! Amazing!
We always eat at the Brown Derby but hate that it's a 2 credit meal. We go for lunch ,get their wonderful Cobb salad, fancy dessert and water or a soft drink. We pay out of pocket,get the fun experience and don't use those precious credits!
Have a great weekend!
Thanks Ruth! Yah- the fact that B&D is a 2 credit meal really bothers me... And it's the only reason we haven't tried it. I guess I would have to work out the prices to see if it's something that's worth doing OOP? I have a feeling it will get bumped out by one of the others for that reason alone.
love love love the bag. The fabrics are just perfect.
Thank you Chiara!
Steamboat Mickey is great. I love how all the fabrics "match" up even if they are different colors.
Thanks! I do too!
I think your list is a great place to start. Not sure how you are going to have 3 meals in HS (unless you spend 3 days there) but I'm sure you will figure it out. I almost did the Fantasmic dining package at the Brown Derby this year but the times available were for a late lunch and I was too cheap to spend the 2 dining credits on there. That being said we might have to go there next time to satisfy my DHs need for a change. The menu does look good.
My only concern would be using up my park time on travel to the different hotels to have a meal, especially since you are using Disney transportation. I have a feeling you could make it work since the park hours are extended in August. That being said I would think you could get to the monorail hotels fairly easily on your MK days (hopefully some of Suzi's monorail luck will rub off on you).
I know this trip will be tougher to figure out since it is a bit shorter then you normally do, but then it gives you a good excuse for a return trip.
I probably should have stated that we aren't planning on doing ALL of those meals. LOL That is just the rough list of what we'd like to choose from. The only ones we are doing for sure, are the Non-negotiable ones.
So, BFF and her dd are going to look the list over and read about those restaurants, then come back at me with their own list. Since they rarely go - we are going to try to accomodate their requests as much as possible.
D~ I have to say that conceptually I always try to imagine what your bag (and wallet) will look like (with my limited creative mind of course) and then I actually see you amazing creation and I'm BLOWN AWAY! Your Steamboat Willie perfectly captures the character. Serious cuteness going on there! I feel like I'm a Dancing with the Stars judge holding up my 10 paddle here!!
Thank you very much Brenda! I really makes me happy that people truly love what I make.
As for your ADR choices. Nothing looks bad to me! I agree though another trip must be in order. Looks like you are not too into the Epcot restaurants. They are a mixed bag for me - some are a favorite and some I steer clear of just because they don't wow me with the food. I do love Kona for breakfast - that is my favorite but if I had to have a second favorite it would be Crystal Palace.
Yah - I guess my post was confusing. LOL We aren't going to try to do all of those on this trip - the only ones we are doing, for sure, are the non-negotiable ones... the other list is just a starting point for BFF to look at and decide if any of them look good - then she will come back to me with their list, and hopefully we can narrow it down a lot further. However, I did forget to add Kona as an option - I really want to eat there some day for breakfast.
So, I finally made it over and I am behind. But did see the newest Mickey bag and love it, so creative!!!! Oh yes and I finally finished editing photopass photos from the summer. Only reason they are actually finished is because of the shutdown of the old site. I'm gonna have a hard time next year (hopefully) editing by 60 days. But maybe a deadline is good for me. And I'm always happy when they are finished. Can't wait to hear about all your plans. Maybe I can keep up better on the ptr.
Yay - so happy you are here!!! PTRs tend to move much slower, so I hope you are able to keep up. And I admit, I moved my last TR along much faster than I would have liked, because I knew I had this trip to plan, and it was a big one.
Hmmm... Interesting about the new photopass site... I did all of my photos on the old site, and I should have taken the time to look at the new site before my photos expired - but I ran out of time.
So, tell me, on the new site - we now get 60 days to edit? If so, that is awesome! I usually have to work like a crazy person after we get home to get all of our edits done - so that would be nice.
I had to stop by and tell you how gorgeous MY bag is and how awesome it is to be able to say that. I was a little concerned that maybe you would only do a face for my bag but when I saw it this morning ship wheel and all, I instantly fell in love!!! You really did make my favorite character come to life. I also love how the ruffle on the outside is the bias on the inside.
Your ADRS look great but I'm afraid with that many you may only have time to eat. Lol.... How will you choose though? They are all so good!
Hi Bridget! I didn't realize this was you! It's so hard to try and tell if some people are the same from their Dis names. LOL So I am glad you stopped by! And I am even happier that you like your bag! I am very excited about it myself... I can't wait for you to see it in person and carry it on your next trip.
LOL - Yah - we do have a lot of ADRs to choose from, we are definately going to narrow it down... This was just the "rough draft" that I am sending to BFF... The non-negotiable ones are just that... LOL The girls and I are eating there no matter what.
But the others are just ideas to get them started, then they can look up those restaurants in their Passporters to see if any of them look like something they want to do. Hopefully we can whiddle them down a little bit... After all, if we are going for a shorter trip, it will be very hard to only have 6 or 7 to choose from.
I prefer to go to Target on Black Friday and I agree with you about them opening on Thanksgiving Day now. I'm not happy with that. Only way I'll go is if there is something I really want, otherwise I'll wait and go later.
Steamboat Willie turned out great!!! Love it!!
Thanks Sandra! Yah - me neither... I used to LOVE opening on Black Friday - it was my favorite shift of the entire year. But now that they are opening on Thursday night, I still get my early Friday morning shift - which by then, we are usually dead and we are all bored.
It's not very fun working BF anymore.
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So, when I posted my
restarurant list yesterday - I should have eplained the list was only a starting point. The only restaurants that we are doing for certain are the non-negotiable ones... the others are just a starting point of what the girls and I like and what we are interested in doing. I also forgot to put
Kona on that list, I'd really like to eat there for breakfast some day.
So, hopefully BFF will look over all the restaurants we sent her, and will come back at us with their list - then we can start to narrow it down a little bit. I told her that we don't always have to eat at the same restaurant, we can split up and eat at different places.
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Yesterday was a great day!
As you all saw, I finished up my custom order for the week.
I am very happy with how it turned out.
After that, I worked on the Great Stocking Project for a little while.
When I was at work the other day, my friend who loaned me the embroidery machine came in - I have not seen her since she loaned it to me... We talked about it a little bit, and I told her that I didn't think I was interested in buying it - even though I was very grateful that she loaned it to me - I didn't think it would work for what I needed... I explained to her, that in order to make it useful for me, I would have to invest hundreds into software for it, and spend (potentially) hours converting fonts and transferring them to the software... By the time I do that - I might as well purchase the machine that can do what I need it to do. So, then she told me she would like the machine back, as she had someone else she could sell it to.
I kind of expected that - I knew from the beginning, she was only borrowing it to me because she wanted me to purchase it from her, and once I told her that it wasn't what I needed, she would want it back. So, it's totally OK.
The reason I told that whole story, is that I needed to get all of the names done for the stockings, because I have no idea what that font is on the machine, and I have no idea if I would be able to find it elsewhere. So, I finished up all of the names I needed to do. I plan on packing up her machine this week, so I can get it back to her the next time I go to town. It was super nice to have it for as long as I did, and it really enabled me to learn a little bit about embroidery machines - because prior to this, I was clueless.
Now, I am looking forward to purchasing my next machine... I am very close to being done saving for it - which is a relief, because I have been saving since we returned from our trip.
On to other things...
I went to town yesterday to pick up Alli and her friend from school... I also picked up a pizza for dinner.
When we came home, I started my couponing... I hadn't clipped them for a few weeks - so my task was quite massive. But I was able to get it done. Unfortunately, I am going grocery shopping this morning with out a list.
But, at least I will have coupons. LOL
Then, after we ate, V and I decided it was time to break out the Christmas movies... The first one we watched was Santa Clause 3... I wanted to start with the first one - as that makes the most sense, but V wanted to watch 3... So that's what we watched.
And, as usual, I fell asleep with MM on my lap.
Alrighty... I hope you all have a fantastic day! Sending out prayers to all who need them.
D~
So, are we missing anything? Is there anything that is a must-do for you? D~
Not really - we are naturally very early to bed/early to rise people... I am normally up (at the latest) by 5am every morning... However, due to this darned time change, I have been waking between 3am and 4am every morning - now that is a bit too early, even for me. 
All of these would be a back up applique machine - since my Mr. R drives me crazy sometimes. 
I am sure - if I timed it right, I could arrive a few days before you leave for your trip - I know you have an extra seat in your van for me. 
All in all, it was a good shopping day, and I was able to get everything I needed.
