We got back about 12 days ago. I've been meaning to come here and post but it's been crazy. I did post all of this on another board so some of you may have seen it already. This is what I made for our trip. We did 10 days - 1 night at my nephews, 4 nights on the Disney Wonder and 4nights at WDW.
I only made 2 things for the cruise. My list was longer but I had to cut way back. As always I waited until the last minute and did most of my sewing the week before we left. I really have to stop that. I made these Steamboat Willie sets for Animators Palate. It was my first time using an embroidery machine (a friends). In the past all my appliques I've done myself. The apron on the dress is completly removable so the dress is now in her closet and something she can wear to school, etc. We actually had a beautiful family portrait done on this night. I just love it.
I also made part of dd's pirate costumes. For dd I made a asymentrical peasant top (which will double as her perforance top for Violin) and a self drafted corset. She wore it with a petti type skirt she has had for a while and some fishnet tights we got after Halloween on clearance.
After we got off the ship (which we loved btw) we went to WDW. We stayed at All Star Music. The first day we relaxed, did laundry and went to dinner at the Swan (yum) and then made smores at Fort Wilderness and enjoyed Chip N Dale at the sing a long. The next day we did breakfast with Lilo and Stitch. We celebrated ds's 7th birthday and dh's 40th. DS wore a stitch shirt I purchased on Etsy and dd wore a Lilo dress I made for her. Wehn we arrived Stitch was at our table immediatly and he saw dd and grabbed her by the hand and literally drug her across the entire restaurant so Lilo could see her dress. It was hysterical and dd felt so special!
That night we went to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party. I made Olivia a knot top with a reversible apron (so when we got home she could still wear it to school and not feel so "babyish"). The apron attached with three buttons. I also made decoupage jeans. First time I did that. Not so sure about it. I'll try again though.
Ok so ds's set....well ummmm....I was literally making it at the last minute. I used a vintage coloring book page as inspiration for the applique. The treeson the jeans were just ironed on. I never had time to sew them down!
The next day it was back to Magic Kingdom except this time we had friends meet up with us that we hadn't seen in 8 years! I love the sets the kids wore on this day. I used vintage Disney scrapbook stickers and scanned them into the computer. Printed them out on super soft transfer paper and ironed them to white knit. Cut them out and stitched them on. I did a similar set for a MAW Big Give. DD's skirt is a 4 panel knit circle skirt I drafted myself.
The next day it was off to Hollywood STudios. Such a change of pace for us this time. Usually we go and the day is all about Playhouse Disney and Belle. This time though with them being older it was all about Stunt shows. The car show and Indiana Jones were huge hits with my kiddos! Of course the highlight of this day was the Osborne Lights and so it was only appropriate we dress for the ocassion! The whole family wore JOY shirts with the O as a Mickey Head and dd had a matching skirt.
That's our trip! It was wonderful and so needed. We really relaxed and had an amazing time. I look forward to our next wonderful family vacation! Thanks for reading this...I know it was long.
. The one dinner outfit that is storebought was picked out as a surprise from her biggest sister, and it's really cute...even has machine embroidery on it, so it looks handmade. LOL
I am so sorry to hear about your DH. This is a wonderful way to honor him.
It looks fabulous with the mickey! I'm glad you had such a fun trip, and welcome back!
Can you send the link again?
