~ Aug 2013~ Sew what... We've gotta find a way back! Part I!!

[nowellsl]

I have heard that some of my links are not working... It seems that the tutorial I found originally has been removed from the site. I have not had a chance to dig around out there to find anything comparable.... So if you find anything - please let me know, and I will add the links to that page.

I've been researching and came across this http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintag...oat-vintage-sewing-machine-heads-t193635.html

The shellac coat on my machine is kindof bad, but the paint underneath is OK. The guts aren't too bad so I don't know if I need to do too much other than oil and grease. I do need to re-wire the foot pedal and light, so I've ordered those supplies and been reading up on it! I just don't want to mess it up I re-read your pre-trip report on Patience and you have given me a lot of inspiration! Thanks again!!

 

[KatMark]

D, sounds like you had a very successful day in your sewing room yesterday.

I'm sorry Allison is not feeling well and hope it is just a one day thing.

 

[GrammytoMany]

Hi D, Finally catching up again

Showed your cute Peace Mickey bag to my granddaughter Allie. She has been drawing the peace sign on a lot of her drawings lately. She thought the bag was really cute.

The photos of your daughters acting silly were funny. When one of my granddaughters sees me with a camera she'll tell me "Grammy, no flash photography." Or she hold up a hand in front of her face....

Sheila

 

[OregonMomToWDW]

D, We are planning several meals where instead of eating 3 adult meals, we will share two. I have that planned at the three TS restaurants that aren't buffet or family style. That way, I was able to fit in one more character buffet. For Chelsea, I will pay OOP for one of the meals. Probably Rainforest or Sci-Fi. At Raglan Road, I can order a side salad if I don't think it will be enough. At Sci-Fi, I plan on getting an appetizer OOP if Marissa doesn't want to share her burger. I know better than to try to make Jacob share his food. We are doing the same thing with the QS credits too. Just to try to make them go further, and it really does seem like a lot of food. If they don't have a discounted dining plan, then we will pay OOP. There aren't really any ADR's I want to give up, so we would probably still go to them.

Good luck with your planning.

 

[Pixiedust530]

Hope you have a great day and this my friend

is the beautiful Channing Tatum...
I left it HUGE for a reason... now i will come to your report daily for this post.....

Looks like I will be starting and ending my days on the DIS with D~'s PTR!

 

[Luvchefmic]

Looks like I will be starting and ending my days on the DIS with D~'s PTR!

I have NO idea who that is but have to agree VERY easy on the eyes


Loved seeing the girls they remind me so much of my DDs
but boy I remember the occasional sister fights ! Take cover

Hope Alli feels better no fun feeling lousy

I haven't seen Brave or Wreck it Ralph yet soon I hope to
Esp Brave having seen Meredia in the park I am curious I did love
Mulan so this also being a strong female lead I think I will
enjoy it

Ahh the dryer lifes not predictable but I swear the applinces talk to each other when its
crap out time..sounds like you more than got your money out of it

Wishing for you the trip you planned & that Disney announces
something soon

oh you asked me if I go to BB often, absolutely, when I can I
do love that park Typhoon Lagoon has its good points too but I find BB has more
areas to relax

Have a blessed afternoon & night everyone Rain/dreary here
perfect stay in bed day for me

RuthIE

 

[babynala]

Mo is going to have your PTR overloaded with everyone coming to check out her picture.

The pictures that Alli took of V are gorgeous. Such great quality and wonderful pictures of V. Love the ones of the girls goofing around too.

Your modified trip doesn't sound too bad. I hope a great deal comes out in either case. The water parks will be a bit of savings for your tickets too. Looks like you figured out which meals will be the cheapest to pay out of pocket for.

 

[solana131]

The plan is... Get to the park in time for AM EMH... Ride all our favorite rides in the frontier area of the park (everyone that knows us - knows that we can stay busy over here for hours)...

But, I thought Frontierland was closed during AM EMH??? Only FantasyLand and TomorrowLand was open last July. We had to line up at a rope next to Peter Pan and wait for the other guests to get even with us from the front of the park. They didn't let us go...we had to walk with a CM all the way over to Frontierland and met a huge group from the front. I thought it was really weird. The park was open at 9...we should've been able to go over at 9. it was about 9:10 when they let us start walking that way. They said it wasn't fair to the other guests that didn't get there for EMH.....silly me....I thought that was why I paid ten times the price they did

 

[ladylyons]

I'll keep hoping that a great pin comes out and your able to keep your original dates.

Can't wait to see your newest bag and what you've come up with for your auction.

Sorry Alli isn't feeling good. Hope she starts feeling better soon! Unfortunatly there are some nasty bugs going around and of course I would catch another one. I think I've been sick more days this year than I have been healthy. So not good!!

 

[jkfandel]

I went in August last year (VERY HOT) and lived in LL Bean T shirts V-Neck and their lightweight denim shorts. We even took their lightweight rain jackets that fold up into themselves. Outlet shopping and sales can be done to lessen the $$. Loved them!!!!!

 

[DMGeurts]

Sorry... No time for individual responses this morning... May have to catch up tomorrow... I over slept and I have to work at Target this morning.

Josh and I ended up taking Allison into the ER last night. The exact same thing was going on with her that happened in Disney. At about 8 last night, we asked her if she drank anything at all yesterday, and she said no - so we got really worried that she was starting to dehydrate. Especially when her stomach started cramping and started to get very painful. Better safe than sorry.

So we took her in, they looked at her - hooked her up to an IV, got her hydrated and gave her some pain meds. They are not sure what it is, but *think* it was a virus or some sort of acid issue.

We didn't get home from the ER until about 1:30am. She is fine, and that's what matters.

I've gotta run... I hope you all have an amazing day, and I will try to catch up later.

D~

 

[NiniMorris]

Sorry... No time for individual responses this morning... May have to catch up tomorrow... I over slept and I have to work at Target this morning.

Josh and I ended up taking Allison into the ER last night. The exact same thing was going on with her that happened in Disney. At about 8 last night, we asked her if she drank anything at all yesterday, and she said no - so we got really worried that she was starting to dehydrate. Especially when her stomach started cramping and started to get very painful. Better safe than sorry.

So we took her in, they looked at her - hooked her up to an IV, got her hydrated and gave her some pain meds. They are not sure what it is, but *think* it was a virus or some sort of acid issue.

We didn't get home from the ER until about 1:30am. She is fine, and that's what matters.

I've gotta run... I hope you all have an amazing day, and I will try to catch up later.

D~

SCAREY!

I knew something was up...you had not posted by the time I went down to the studio...


Nini

 

[cogero]

Oh poor Aly hope she feels better soon. I think I would be following up, sounds like something else is going in.

 

[babynala]

Oh no poor Alli. Not a fun way to spend the night. I hope she is feeling better. Not a question you need to answer here but do you think it could be menstrual? Obviously she was dehydrated but it could be a secondary cause and something you might want to keep track of so you can tell if it is related.

 

[DisNorth]

Hope Allison is feeling better, how scary that you had to take her to the ER!

I’m glad to see plans are coming along for your trip, however not happy to hear you might have to cut it shorter! I hope Disney comes up with some great discounts!

Totally Amazing bags like always! I don’t think there is one I don’t love.

The photos of your girls are great, the ‘photo-shoot’ ones and the goofy ones! I need to play with my camera more to take better photos!

I have to try to stay more up-to-date with you PTR!

 

[nannye]

Hi, oh I hope Ali is feeling better!

Oh no worries about the lanyard, wasn't sure if she was still making them. we'll do an auction one if she does them, I might even try my hand at making one. There is lots of things I'd like to make it's just finding the time.

I'm really glad you talked to me about the calendar shift because I really like switching those two days around better. I'm looking forward to taking advantage of EMH. I wish we had time to explore FLE in the dark too, but that will be our parade/wishes night. our other night at MK V really wants to do the Dessert Party again so we might be have a teeny bit of time that night but otherwise on our first MK day we will be staking out a spot.

 

[ladylyons]

Sorry you had to take her into the ER but hopefully you can get answer's as to what's going on. Hope she starts feeling better!!

 

[Luvchefmic]

agree w/both Chiara...underlying cause & Liz' thoughts possible
menstrual

Regardless PLEASE make her understand must drink water she never
wants to experience a kidney stone....I've had 3

Its always something isnt it



RuthIE

 

[disneychic2]

I was hoping for an update about Allie, but I know this has been a crazy day for you. I hope she is feeling better and that they get to the bottom of whatever is wrong. Prayers for all of you!

 

[lovingeire]

I hope you had a nice weekend. And thanks for the compliments on the girls' pictures... I love seeing the crazy things they do!

I do like my meal chart - but like I said, I printed it off last year and never used it - it was just so much easier to look at my cheat sheet every day and commit to memory which meals I had budgeted for that day.

I agree - this "no discount" think is just too much for me, I hope they understand that people only have so much so spend - so they are going to see many shortened trips this year because most people can't afford to take them with out the discounts - if they can afford to take them at all. Sigh.



Yes... I did quote myself...

OK - so I did some ADR switching yesterday... First of all - I switched my CRT dinner time. It was scheduled for 6:45, Erin and I were discussing how long a CRT meal would take, and I got to thinking... If our ADR time is 6:45 - at the END of dinner - we most likely won't get seated until at least 7:15, then the meal itself takes at least an hour... The earliest we'd probably get out of there is 8:30, the park closes at 10pm that night, and that's the night the girls and I were planning to explore FLE - so that only leaves us an hour and a half to spend some time there... That's so not going to be enough time.

So, I did a search on the WDW website (which surprisingly has been working for me the last few days) and found a CRT dinner ADR for 4:20... This is NOT an ideal time for us - considering that we have an 11:30 LTT lunch scheduled this day...

The plan is... Get to the park in time for AM EMH... Ride all our favorite rides in the frontier area of the park (everyone that knows us - knows that we can stay busy over here for hours)... Then we will go have lunch. We will leave the park immediately after lunch (about 12:45) and head back to the resort to rest - we will only have max 2 hours to rest - but I think it will be important to do this day. We will leave the resort to head back to MK at about 3:30. We will have our Dinner at CRT, and hopefully be back out into the park by 6:30... Which will give us pleanty of time to explore FLE. I still may continue to try and get an ADR closer to 5pm - so we can have a bit more rest time in between... but I kind of like to eat earlier anyways...

I do have one important question for you all... As Erin and I were talking about this yesterday, she asked me a question that I didn't know the answer to - but it's a valid question that could come into play for us... If you are paying OOP for a TS meal (non-buffet, like LTT or Sci-Fi) - do you have to buy meals for each person? Or can you split a meal?

This could be very helpful for us this day - considering we have 2 TS meals scheduled, and I am over on TS credits...



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Yesterday went amazing in my sewing room - I was able to accomplish a lot. My next bag is ready to be appliqued today... I plan to get started on that right away this morning. I also finished quilting my auction bag - well almost- I have 2 small pieces left to quilt, which shouldn't take me more than 20 minutes to finish. I hope to start and finish my applique today, and also totally finish quilting my auction bag.

As mentioned above in some of my comments... I am working on our alternate trip and getting my ducks in a row for that. I was able to book the necessary ADRs that we need if our trip does get shortened. So, we have 2 possible sets of dates... The original trip (which is still booked) is Aug 19-30. The alternate trip would be Aug 20-29... This is the only way I could work it so that none of our MK days would have to change... As you all know - that BoG ADR is impossible to get, so there is just no way I could lose that day.

I also moved around some of our ADR times to work better with our schedule and the way we like to tour... Which I still need to go through our planning pages to make edits reflecting these changes. I hope to dabble at that a little bit today - while I am on sewing room breaks, because if I don't do it right away, I may forget - and that wouldn't be good.


D~

So I'm behind, and reading the thread backwards. Gotta keep things interesting!

We have split meals on the dining plan before. I have a 13 year old, so he is a "Disney adult" and just cannot eat the huge portions there yet! So, we shared a meal at PTC I know for sure. So you might want to ask about that as well. Or if paying OOP, they should definitely let you.

I was wondering about CRT too. I was worried we'd miss Wishes and the MSEP. Our reservation is at 6:45pm too so hopefully we'll be done to get out and get seats for the parade and Wishes. We normally watch the parade in Frontierland, but I guess we'll have to find a new spot with our ADRs as they are. The parade is at 9 that day so hopefully we can make it in time. I don't think we'll want to eat dinner at 4:15 or whatever the super early time was. (It's a reservation for 8 so they're not easy to come by!) I'm hoping if we show up a wee bit early we'll be seated a bit more on time? I've never eaten at CRT before though so we'll see.

Yay, new bag! I can't wait to see! Ok, I hope I covered everything I wanted to! Hope Allison is feeling better!