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For my first blog post, I couldn’t think of anything more appropriate than a review of Marty Sklar’s new book,  Dream It! Do It! My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms.  Marty Sklar is a Disney Legend who has dedicated 54 years of service to the Disney Empire.  His career began at the age of 21…

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Planes, a spin-off of Pixar’s Cars, was created by Disney Toons Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. While Pixar is not the producer of the movie it is noteworthy that John Lasseter, chief creative officer at both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and director of Cars and…

We all have those projects especially scrapbookers.  We know we’re going to make a beautiful album, “when I get around to it” but what can we do to make the project easier to complete in the meantime?  Here are some helpful tips. Before you go on your trip  Have a way to gather and collect…

I am a big Muppet fan, so when I saw that Disney had a new app featuring the Muppets I was pretty excited to try it. It is a free app, but unlike many other free apps it is not filled with ads. There is an in app purchase option for more coins and diamonds…

I want to thank Disney Publishing Worldwide Applications for allowing me to try out this new app for the purpose of the review below. I was recently asked to try out the new Disney Princess Royal Salon app from Disney Publishing Worldwide Applications, and I have to say that if you have a young girl,…

Disney has always been a master at storytelling. So it makes perfect sense that they would create an app to help us regular folks tell the stories of our lives! Disney Interactive’s new Story app is a great tool to help you present those photos that you have been taking and storing on your iPhone…

It always seems like too long between trips to Disney for me.  Yes, the kids would agree with me on this point.  We would likely be happy visiting a Disney park everyday, but that isn’t a possibility for us, nor for many of you, too.  While we can always dream about visiting the parks, we…

I received this app for the purpose of the following review. The Cinderella Storybook Deluxe app is another in the increasing line of stories from Disney Publishing Worldwide Applications.  I look back to my childhood and the read-a-long storybooks on vinyl records (45s).  Do you remember those?  There was a “ding” or other sound for…

For those of you who have dreamed of the perfect Disneyland wedding, but sadly lack the 6+ figure budget required for a wedding in the park, you can still “make your dreams come true” with a little creativity and imagination! As Walt Disney once said, “If you can dream it you can do it.” Although…

Confession time. I never wanted to cruise. Twenty years ago when my husband and I were negotiating…er…planning a honeymoon, he wanted to cruise. I did not. We spent a week on the beach. Fast forward about fifteen years. We were looking for a new vacation choice in addition to our then-annual Walt Disney World vacations….

Every week we will take a look at some fun, interesting, or new aspect of cruising the high seas! My next cruise is about five weeks away. All of those far off plans we made over a year ago are really starting to seem real. The one thing that we really need to start thinking…