Tltorrez
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Getting ready for a new trip and that means new creative Pixie Dust. (You can see my previous themes in my sig.) This time we're going for 12 nights at the beginning of December so of course the 12 Days of Christmas theme just jumped out at me.
A little background about the trip: It's our first time for the Christmas holidays and MIL and FIL's first time ever. Since we're going for 12 nights/13 days we're planning a fairly relaxed trip of park highlights and holiday stuff. We're staying at BWV and then switching to AKV for the last 4 nights. We've been planning this trip for a year so I've had a lot of time to work on the creative prep. Of course, that didn't stop me from saving most of it until the last minute.
One other wrinkle in the plans - FIL fell a few months ago and fractured 3 vertebrae in his next. We didn't think they would be able to go at all, but right now the trip is on. We'll have a final decision when he sees the doctor on Tuesday.
So, on to the creative stuff. The plan, of course, starts with a tree. Well, since we have two rooms, it will actually be two trees. I'm planning to order one 3' green, pre-lit tree from Amazon Prime and have it delivered to the resort. For the Studio I bought a 2' red tinsel tree from Target. Target also had a nice array of accessories for mini trees - skirts, toppers, battery-operated lights, ornaments and garland. I got a green skirt and lights plus a gold topper and garland for the red tree. For the green tree I got a red skirt, topper and garland.
Target 2' Trees by tltorrez, on Flickr
Then I made ornaments using my Silhouette die cutter.
Ornaments by tltorrez, on Flickr
I'm working on garland for the room. I bought some cute green and red garland and I'm sewing gold Mickey heads onto it. Not sure if I'll get this done in time but we'll see.
Mickey Garland by tltorrez, on Flickr
I'm still working on something for the door. But that's the room decorations. Next up is the presents.
A little background about the trip: It's our first time for the Christmas holidays and MIL and FIL's first time ever. Since we're going for 12 nights/13 days we're planning a fairly relaxed trip of park highlights and holiday stuff. We're staying at BWV and then switching to AKV for the last 4 nights. We've been planning this trip for a year so I've had a lot of time to work on the creative prep. Of course, that didn't stop me from saving most of it until the last minute.
One other wrinkle in the plans - FIL fell a few months ago and fractured 3 vertebrae in his next. We didn't think they would be able to go at all, but right now the trip is on. We'll have a final decision when he sees the doctor on Tuesday. So, on to the creative stuff. The plan, of course, starts with a tree. Well, since we have two rooms, it will actually be two trees. I'm planning to order one 3' green, pre-lit tree from Amazon Prime and have it delivered to the resort. For the Studio I bought a 2' red tinsel tree from Target. Target also had a nice array of accessories for mini trees - skirts, toppers, battery-operated lights, ornaments and garland. I got a green skirt and lights plus a gold topper and garland for the red tree. For the green tree I got a red skirt, topper and garland.
Target 2' Trees by tltorrez, on Flickr
Then I made ornaments using my Silhouette die cutter.
Ornaments by tltorrez, on Flickr
I'm working on garland for the room. I bought some cute green and red garland and I'm sewing gold Mickey heads onto it. Not sure if I'll get this done in time but we'll see.
Mickey Garland by tltorrez, on Flickr
I'm still working on something for the door. But that's the room decorations. Next up is the presents.
Most of these are relatively inexpensive but I splurged on a few. I got a bunch of these Christmas-themed items in January on clearance. We went much lighter on Christmas this year with all the Disney presents.
