Showing posts with label Disney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disney. Show all posts

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Practically Perfect in Every Way



Of all the parties we've had, the Mary Poppins party was possibly my favorite.

I've always loved Mary Poppins and I was very excited when we drew this movie.  However, I was a little concerned because I was fairly certain Jill had never seen Mary Poppins, and if she had, I was fairly certain she never sat through the entirety of Mary Poppins.  I've noticed that kids' movies are getting shorter and shorter as kids' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter, but Mary Poppins is a proper, full-length feature film.

Perhaps one of the reasons I loved this particular movie night so much was the decorations.  Because Mary Poppins is older and not a princess movie, I couldn't find any awesome paper crafts, so I had to get creative.  The first thing I found was directions for making a chimney sweep here.  Here's dad modeling our finished product:


Another thing I found, and loved, was this design:
 


Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything particularly awesome to do with it, so I just printed it out and put it on the table or something equally boring.  However, it did give me the idea that I wanted to do something with the silhouettes of Mary and  Bert over a skyline.  So, I used the following images to cut the silhouettes out of black butcher paper.


Small Fry then used more of the black butcher paper to make a skyline, and we decorated the entrance!


We were very happy with the finished product!  So much so that my family left it up for quite some time after the party, and when they finally took it down, Big Lil made an art project out of saving it, so now I have a permanent piece of the Mary Poppins party in my home!  Didn't she do a great job of recreating the wall paper at my parents' house?


For dinner we decided to go with a classic English meal of roast beef and roasted vegetables with gravy, and Yorkshire pudding (gluten free of course).  I don't know if you're familiar with Yorkshire pudding, but it was the key to making this feel like an English dinner instead of just a plain old roast.  They're actually very similar to a roll, but calling them Yorkshire puddings just makes you feel British!



We also had a fun addition of penguins at the dinner table (in true Mary Poppins fashion).


For dessert, we took the lead from two wonderful songs from Mary Poppins.  The first was from "Jolly Holiday" (around 3:23).


"Now. then, what would be nice?  We'll start with raspberry ice."


And then, of course, we had to have spoonfuls of sugar!


Although we made these in advance, it could have been fun to make them at the party when "A Spoonful of Sugar" comes on.  Instead we just ate them when the song came on.  In fact, we did a lot of activities during the movie!  In order to combat any potential boredom in the six year olds, we had activities peppered throughout the movie.

The first came at the scene when Mary measures Jane and Michael.  I secretly gathered the heights of all in attendance (even the dogs) and wrote special messages on a measuring tape for everyone.  Frankly, I thought it was a little silly, but it was the biggest hit of all of the activities.

When Mary Poppins measures Jane and Michael, Michael's says "Extremely stubborn and suspicious, and Jane's says "Prone to giggling and not tidying up."  Those were a little negative for my tastes, so I did one positive and one potentially negative for each person.  Well, sort of.  In order of height, our messages were as follows:

The husband:  Sleeps a lot; surprisingly funny.
Dad:  Extremely handy; grumpy after 9 p.m. (he still hasn't let us live this one down)
Big Lil:  Stubborn to a fault; very clean.
Me and Mom:  Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way (we decided we were probably the same height as Mary Poppins)
Small Fry:  Full of joy; rarely puts things away.
The Bean:  Slightly stubborn; prone to giggle.
The BFF:  Somewhat suspicious; puppy magnet.
Penelope: Very sweet; doesn't listen.  (This is the Jack Russell.)
Emma:  Chews on everything; too cute for her own good.  (This is the Dachshund puppy.)

Big Lil seems skeptical about her measurement.



The next game we played was during "Pavement Artist" when Bert is doing chalk drawings on the sidewalk.  For this, we used the leftover black butcher paper and sidewalk chalk to let the girls do their own chalk drawings.


Next up was penguin bowling!  While Bert was dancing with the penguins, we did a little bowling for penguins!  These penguins were made out of empty 2 liter bottles, black spray paint, multi-hued cardstock, and hot glue.





Our final activity was dancing to "Step in Time" with our chimney sweeper.  Some black face markings could have been fun here.


Apparently, the Bean has enjoyed dancing to this song for a LONG time!

 

I intended to make sashes for a dance during "Sister Suffragette," but, unfortunately, never got around to it.  And there are so many things to be done with "Feed the Birds," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," "Stay Awake," "Let's Go Fly a Kite," or any of the other wonderful songs from Mary Poppins.

We all love Mary Poppins around here, and we're hoping it will become one of the Bean's favorites too!

Coming up next is my birthday party!  So, to celebrate, we did a Beauty and the Beast party with the most magnificent cake you can imagine.

Godspeed!

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Just Keep Swimming




I'm sorry it's been so long!  School has been hectic and there just hasn't been much time for blogging (especially since I'm still having the occasional Disney dinner night), but I am in the midst of a four day ice break from school/work, so it's time for a Finding Nemo party!

Since there is more than one Disney movie that takes place under the sea, I didn't want to go with too much of an underwater/sea creature theme.  Instead, I decided to go with an Australian theme because, well, it's in Australia.


In the process, I discovered a few important things:
I decided to forgo the Vegemite (as the process is similar to making beer) and Lamington (since our menu ended up a little dessert heavy) and went with the following menu: meat potato pies, shrimp on the barbie, Anzac biscuits, Tim Tam cake, Peach Melba, and a watermelon shark.

The meat potato pies were basically just stuffed potatoes, but they were quite delicious.  There were also a few spices in them that I wouldn't normally put in that sort of dish (nutmeg and cinnamon), but everyone seemed to like them.  I felt like shrimp on the barbie, though cliché, was something that we had to have.  Once again, there were a lot of flavors I wouldn't have thought to use here, but the shrimp were also delicious.  Since the meat potato pies didn't require much of the potato filling, I made mashed potatoes rather than waste the potato, but it was more of a last minute addition than a planned thing.


As I've mentioned previously, when I do these parties, I do them gluten free.  So, I took this Anzac biscuit recipe and replaced the regular flour with our gluten free flour mix.  I also didn't have rolled oats, so I used steel cut oats instead.  Both substitutions equaled super crunchy Anzac sheets rather than biscuits.  They still tasted quite good, but I really want to try them again following the actual recipe to see what they're supposed to be like.


Our dessert spread was quite impressive.  The most impressive, by far, was the watermelon shark.  This shark was done in honor of Bruce.


So, for dessert we had a watermelon shark, Peach Melba, and a Tim Tam cake.  That site with the watermelon shark has fantastic step-by-step instructions on making a watermelon shark, and although I wouldn't go so far as to say it was easy, it wasn't that hard.  Definitely worth the trouble for the reaction of the Bean.  Peach Melba is pretty basic and the combination is quite delicious.  As far as the Tim Tam cake goes, Tim Tam are crunchy chocolate cookies with a soft chocolatey middle that are then dipped in chocolate, from what I understand, so this cake was supposed to look like a Tim Tam and even taste like one minus the crunch.  The recipe actually mentions getting some Tim Tams and crumbling them on or into one of the layers, but since I was trying to avoid having to get real Tim Tams, I skipped that step.




As it turns out, there isn't really a lot of notable music in Finding Nemo, but there are some instrumental pieces that will set the mood if you would like to have music while eating.

I had a difficult time finding ideas for games online, so I made my own game called Finding Nemo!  First, I painted a bunch of clown fish on some card stock, and then cut them out.  But only one of the fish was Nemo with his gimpy fin (the rest were based on Marlin).


Can you tell which one is Nemo?

Then, I sent the family out of the room, put a piece of tape on each fish, taped the fish to the bottom of some chairs, and set the chairs up like you would for musical chairs.  Unlike musical chairs, everyone playing had a chair.  So, when the music stopped, everyone sat down, checked the fish, and the person that found Nemo won!  The Bean and her BFF loved this game, so we had to play it again and again.  Each time I would just make them leave the room and rearrange the fish.  This is about the fifth time we played:





For our craft, we decided to make our own Squishy!http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs40/i/2009/046/6/3/I_shall_call_him_Squishy_by_tinkerbell10221.jpg


We ended up using bottles of Hubert's lemonade because we thought the bottles were pretty, but I would recommend a bigger bottle so your Squishy has more space to swim.  The Bean got a little aggravated with the cutting of the plastic bag (it was kind of tedious), but in the end she loved her Squishy and thought it was very cool.






Well, I suppose that sums up our adventures in Australia, and we'll see you again next time for a trip to Cherry Tree Lane!

Godspeed!

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Did I say no purple dragons? Did I?


Well, another Wednesday or two have come and gone, so I thought this Wednesday would be an ideal time to get back to it.

Our next Disney night was The Sword in the Stone!  I don't think the Bean had ever seen The Sword in the Stone, so she wasn't particularly excited about this one.  In fact, I heard a rumor that she may have gone to her Papaw and pretended that she hadn't already drawn a movie with her JG so we could do a different movie.  The second movie she drew was Aladdin, but she got in a little bit of trouble for the trickery, so we stuck with The Sword in the Stone.  After the kerfuffle, I felt as though I would have to make The Sword in the Stone awesome so she wouldn't wish we were doing Aladdin instead.  However, considering how awesome The Sword in the Stone is on its own, that wasn't hard to do.

We went with a rustic dinner based primarily on the following image from The Sword in the Stone.

 
Here, Sir Kay is eating what I can only presume is a turkey leg, so we had turkey legs and rustic vegetables.  The turkey legs were surprisingly easy because they are sold in a package at Kroger, and all I did was wrap them in aluminum foil and heat them in the oven.  I didn't add any seasoning or anything, and they were delicious.  For the rustic vegetables, I just chopped up a bunch of veggies (potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, zuccini, tomatoes, and onions); tossed them with chopped garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, and Cavender's; and roasted them in the oven until they were soft, stirring occasionally so they wouldn't stick too much.  It was a very simple, but very delicious meal.


The dessert was a little more exciting.  As mentioned previously in this blog, I make an awesome gluten-free carrot cake, so I went back to the carrot cake cupcakes for this dessert.  However, instead of using the traditional cream cheese icing, I made a regular cream cheese icing (it contains MUCH more powdered sugar as well as few other things like shortening) and used black food coloring for a good gray color.  Then, I melted a bit of white chocolate and bit of milk chocolate, colored the white chocolate with the black food coloring, and made chocolate swords!  Viola!  Your very own (delicious) sword in a stone!


Instead of doing a craft for The Sword in the Stone, we did two activities based on scenes from the movie.  In one of the first scenes where the Wart really gets to experience magic, Merlin turns him into a fish!  So our first game was a fishing game.  The first step to making the game was getting the fish.  I made one of the fish look like Merlin and another look like Wart, but the rest were just random fish (or objects you might accidentally catch while fishing).  I just drew the fish with crayons (and the help of my Big Lil' who did the random fish), cut them out, and attached magnets to the back.  For the actual fishing poles, we just attached string to a stick, and then put a paper clip on the end of the string.  Then Small Fry set up a tarp (she wanted it to be blue, like water) and sat behind the tarp while the Bean and her BFF went fishing.  The paper clip wasn't quite enough metal to really attract the magnets, so Small Fry had to help out occasionally, but the girls loved it anyway.



The second activity was based on the scene where Merlin and Wart turn into squirrels!  Just like little squirrels, Small Fry hid little nuts (which in our case were just brown beads we found at Walmart) all over the house, and then our little squirrels had to go find them.  Since neither one of the girls had seen the movie, we watched, and then after it got to the scene where Merlin and Wart turn into fish, we did the fishing game, and then after the squirrel scene, we did the squirrel game.  Both of the girls had noticed beads all over the house, so they were very impatient about waiting for the squirrel scene.  Once it was time to go on an acorn hunt, they were running through the house like that crazy squirrel from Ice Age looking for those nuts.


We didn't really have winners or losers in either of these games.  Instead, Big Lil' made adorable fish full of candy for everybody, and everybody was a winner!  I don't know exactly how she did the fish (she made it look incredibly easy though) and I couldn't really get a good picture of them, but you can trust me when I say they were awesome.


In the end, I think the Bean decided that she liked The Sword in the Stone after all!

Godspeed!

Monday, September 2, 2013

On This Lovely Bella Notte


Our guests for the evening chose Lady and the Tramp for their Disney dinner.  Since I didn't have much advance notice, this wasn't as elaborate as some, but we still had fun.

Obviously, we had to have spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, and there is no better recipe for spaghetti and meatballs out there than the Pioneer Woman's recipe.  Seriously.  This recipe is amazing.  It's one of two bookmarked pages on my phone (the other is my school's LMS) because I make it frequently enough that I need it handy.  Soon I will have made it enough that I will have it memorized.  We also had cheesy garlic bread, I just mix some garlic in with really soft (but not melted) butter, spread it thickly on sandwich bread, sprinkle on fresh parsley if I have any, and then smother it in cheese.  Mozerella, colby jack, mexican blend, just whatever we have on hand.  It always comes out wonderfully.  Then, because it's just the perfect side for an Italian meal and dad had lots of homegrown tomatoes (yum!), we had a salad with our Tangy Tomato dressing.


This seems like as good a time as any to share the Tangy Tomato recipe.  Now, we call it Tangy Tomato because it's based on the Tangy Tomato dressing at Outback Steakhouse, but I personally like this dressing significantly more than the dressing at Outback.  It's got a nice kick to it that, as my dad says, just really gets your mouth ready for the rest of the meal.

Tangy Tomato Salad Dressing

Ingredients:
2/3 cup ketchup
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/8 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1 pinch thyme
dash salt
2 Tablespoons olive oil

  1. Mix all ingredients excluding olive oil in a medium saucepan.  Slowly whisk in olive oil while bringing to a boil.
  2. Upon reaching a boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered 5 minutes, whisking the whole time to keep the oil from separating.
  3. Cover until cool and refrigerate.
I was always a ranch dressing girl, but this is definitely my new favorite.  I wish I could carry it around with me for use at restaurants!

For dessert we had homemade ice cream with an amazing hot fudge sauce.  I don't actually know the homemade ice cream recipe because my mom has it in her head, and I left it to her.  As far as the hot fudge, this is my brother-in-law's secret recipe, and I was only very recently allowed in on the secret, so I better not share it!


This dessert didn't really have anything to do with the movie, it just sounded delicious.  Frankly, I haven't really watched Lady and the Tramp quite as many times as I've watched most Disney movies, so I was kind of short on ideas.  This was true for an activity and craft as well.  Our guests (two of my Aunt, the Cake Lady's, granddaughters) were also a little bit older than the Bean, so I wasn't sure they would be as in to an activity as the Bean usually is.  So, we didn't have an activity for the night, but we did have a craft planned.






Mom actually already had this and was going to use it as a headband, but we thought we could do necklaces like Lady's collar in the movie.  Mom had a really cool braiding technique, but we couldn't really get anyone interested in the craft, so we just watched the movie instead.

Disney Family had more super cute printables for Lady and the Tramp, and they did not disappoint.



I used the printables I found on this site for Toy Story as well, and I still can't believe how cute they turned out!  I'm sure it uses a lot of ink, but I happen to have a few extra color ink cartridges because I use colored ink so rarely, so I haven't been bothered by that.  They also take some pretty precise cutting, but this is the kind of thing I really enjoy doing.  I don't know if you could tell.

Although I'm not as familiar with the movie, I am a huge fan of the music from Lady in the Tramp. "Bella Notte." "He's a Tramp," and "The Siamese Cat Song" are true Disney greats. Peggy Lee was something else!

We're having so much fun with these Disney movie nights and we've actually already had three more!  I hope you're enjoying reading about them as much as I'm enjoying planning, throwing, and writing about them!

Godspeed!

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Second Star to the Right and Straight on Til Morning




I did have a little more prep time for this one, but not as much as I would have liked (hence the lack of a shopping list.)  The Bean was really excited about this particular movie night because she loves Peter Pan, so that made it more exciting for me.  It was also exciting because we had some special guests over for the night.  My aunt (the one that made the awesome Tangled cake) had two of her granddaughters in town, so they were able to join us for our Disney dinner.  They also picked our next Disney movie and we did two nights in a row!

I knew I would have to do something related to pirates for Peter Pan, but I didn't really want the food to be pirate party themed because I'm saving that for Pirates of the Caribbean, so instead I went with English food because the Darling family is English.  I also went with English food because I'm a Harry Potter nut and I have an awesome Harry Potter cookbook with many great English dishes in it.

A good friend and I did a Harry Potter themed dinner one night for no particular reason and we made the shepherd's pie in the Harry Potter cookbook.  It was delicious.  I never knew I liked shepherd's pie.  Then, one day I was watching "The Best Thing I Ever Made" on Food Network and Anne Burrell made a shepherd's pie.  I immediately knew that I would have to try it someday.  So, this particular shepherd's pie recipe is hers, not the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook's recipe.  I did, however, make the hot rolls from the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook, and, as always, they turned out heavenly.  They take all day, but they really are worth it.  (That's shepherd's pie on both ends in the picture because it ended up making more than I could fit in one dish.)


For dessert I used another recipe found in the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook:  treacle fudge.  This is another recipe that my HP friend and I made, and we immediately fell in love.  The first time we made it, we used dark molasses instead of treacle (because treacle is next to impossible to find in the US), and we loved it.  Then, we went to an international market in St. Louis one weekend and found some treacle, so we tried it again with treacle, and it was even more magical.  I now understand why Harry loved treacle dishes so much.  Since that time, I have been forced to order the treacle, but it's worth it to me!  I forgot to take a picture of the treacle before diving in, so the only picture I have is of a few pieces on a paper towel while I was eating.  Oops!






Our activity for Peter Pan seemed to be the Bean's favorite activity so far.  I started by giving her the following note:




I attempted to write the next note in invisible ink, and the magic potion was intended to reveal the message, but it didn't really work out that well.  I hid the note in one of the highest places in our house.  Next time I use invisible ink, I will play around with a few recipes before deciding on one.  I had a feeling it wasn't going to work though, so I just wrote out the next clue just in case, and it said:


My silly old shadow is what you'll find next,
and dark places are what he likes the best.

There are a lot of dark places here, that is true,
but on the door to this place, you will see you.

When you go inside, turn on the light.
Thirty seconds should be just right.

This clue was hidden in the Bean's closet because she has a large mirror on her closet door.  This next clue could have been really cool, but the Bean was too excited about finding the next clue to really dwell on the cool factor.  So, for this clue, I got a can of glow-in-the-dark spray paint and tried to spray paint the message on a poster.  That didn't really work because I'm not that good with a spray paint can, but if you had a stencil, I think it could work.  Then, when you turn on the light for thirty seconds and then turn it back off, you should be able to see the next message.  What I did instead was spray paint the entire board, and then you can stand in front of it, have someone turn the light on, stand very still, and when you turn the light off, you can see your shadow on the paper.  I wrote the next clue on the back of the poster board.  The next clue said:


Tink hid the next clue,
but you'll find it I trust,
because that silly fairy
left pixie dust!

You'll go to the place where cars can be stored,
as well as screwdrivers and hammers and boards.

This clue was hidden in the garage because there was a lot of glitter involved and I thought it would be better to have all of that glitter outside.  When she walked outside, the piece of paper was 100% covered in glitter, but upon picking up the piece of paper she saw the following:


So the glitter only stayed on Tink!  (I know, I know, Tink is supposed to be green, not pink, but pink was the only color I had for glitter!)  The final hiding place was my favorite because while the Bean went out to look for this clue, my dad dressed up as Captain Hook and he guarded the treasure!


Don't you love our makeshift Captain Hook?  In case you can't tell, he does have a hook in his hand.

For our treasure, we just filled a basket with candy, but on top of the regular candy, I put some chocolate coins.  Walgreens is the only place that still sells them in my neck of the woods.

After our treasure hunt, we settled down to watch Peter Pan with Captain Hook and ate our treacle fudge and our treasure.  After planning the treasure hunt, I was a little too tired to come up with a craft, so we didn't do one.  While we were watching the movie, I heard the Bean tell her mom that she wanted to write Peter Pan a letter and tell him that she wanted to do another treasure hunt, but she wanted the next one to be longer.  So, I guess The Pirates of the Caribbean will also feature a treasure hunt, though I don't know if Captain Jack Sparrow is as clever as Peter Pan, so he may not have rhyming clues!

Godspeed!

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Tastes Like Chicken


I know!  I know!  It's been forever!  It's actually been so long that I don't remember when we actually did this particular Disney dinner party!  We have done three Disney dinner parties since this one though!  (Oh, and I also know that the title is a line from Lion King, but they say it when they're eating bugs, and we had a bug party, so it seemed appropriate!)

This particular Disney night was pretty last minute.  I went to my parents' that weekend not expecting to do anything Disney related because my mom was out of town and I was actually there to take one of my sisters to the doctor, but we decided to try one anyway because we have so many movies and so little time!  Therefore, I didn't mail anything to the Bean beforehand.  I'm also not sure that I'll be doing that every time.  I'm running low on stamps right now.

I knew from the beginning that I wanted to make a bunch of cute bug food for this Disney night.  However, it was surprisingly difficult to find a main dish that was bug related.  I guess because bugs are so small?  I finally found one here, and we made worm burgers!  (It's really just cut up hot dogs in a sauce--the recipe is on the original site.)


Along with our worm burgers, we had a few other bug foods.  There were butterflies, snails, and ladybugs.
 




The butterflies were done by Small Fry and the Bean and were stuck together with toothpicks.  The other things surrounding the butterflies were supposed to be chocolate covered bugs (they were really pomegranate seeds covered in chocolate--yum), but we decided they looked more like bug poop.  The snails were bread held in a roll with softened cream cheese and then toothpicked to a mini-pickle.  The ladybugs were nut crackers (partially because they're gluten free, and partially because they're delicious) with cream cheese, a pre-made olive tapenade, grape tomatoes, black olives, green onions, and basil.  I tried using black food coloring to put dots on the ladybugs, but all of those bloggers out there who have done that are better than I am, because it wasn't doing anything.  We decided they were cute enough like they were!  (They were also delicious even if the Bean wouldn't eat them.) 




There were also ants on a log and spiders that the Bean helped with (she loved sticking the raisins on the peanut butter) and she decided she loved the ants on a log even though it has celery in it!  Those are uncooked chow mein noodles for spider legs, and they added a delightful crunch.  Even though I don't like peanut butter (I know, how un-American of me), I thought the spiders were quite delicious!

We ended up with quite a spread!






For our drink we had bug juice, and there were worms in the ice!For dessert we had gummy worm Jell-O (and learned from experience, let the Jell-O cool a little before adding the worms, or they will melt) and no bake cookies with worms sticking out of them to look like worms in the dirt.  (We couldn't do a traditional crumbled Oreo worms in dirt thing because Oreos are not gluten free, but those would be good too.)



 The older of my younger sisters (I call her Big Lil' both because she's the biggest of my little sisters and because she's 6" taller than me, and she calls me Lil' Big--or sometimes I may call her the Bean's mom, cause, well, she is) made us antennae to wear during the movie watching.  We just used headbands, pipe cleaners, and pom-poms to make them, and they turned out very cute.  (Semi-funny story:  I couldn't remember what pom-poms were called, so I googled, "What do you call those fuzzy balls used in crafts?"  Google is so smart.  I was sure it was going to come up with at least one thing I didn't want to see, but it was good to me!)


See!  I told you those antennae were cute!  For our craft project, we made flying butterflies!  We took toilet paper rolls and cardstock and used them to make butterflies.  Once the butterflies were made, we took two long pieces of ribbon and tied two ends to little plastic bracelets (anything too big to go through the toilet paper tube would work, but we used the little dollar bracelets found in the party section at Wal-Mart), put the ribbon through the toilet paper, and then tied two more bracelets to the other ends.  Goodness.  That is a terrible description of this particular project!  Hopefully the pictures will make the project a little more clear, because then a person stands on one side holding two of the bracelets, and another stands on the other side, and when you separate the two ribbons, the butterfly goes flying down the ribbons, hence a flying butterfly!

 

For our activity, we used silly string to shoot bugs on a bug target! The Bean's BFF who lives a couple of houses up the street was able to join us for this particular party, so the Bean and her BFF had a bug shooting contest!  The BFF won the first round, but the Bean was victorious in the second round!


Overall, everyone had a blast and we're just getting more and more excited about going to Disney world!  It won't be long now!

I don't have a shopping list this week since it was so last minute, and as I said previously, those were more for my benefit than anything else!  So I suppose that's all!

Spoiler alert!  Our next movie is Peter Pan, and there may be some treasure hunting afoot!

Godspeed!