August Snow White News

Looking to plan a romantic date?  Insider recommends Carthay Circle as a choice.

Gap has released one of the cutest clothing lines for your little cuties.

Disney Style has a fancy tutorial on how to make Snow White inspired Gem nails?

Look out wallets - Dooney and Bourke are releasing a Snow White purse.

Disney Family has a tasty treat for you to make - Snow White Smoothie Bowls.

Look out completest collectors, because Funko is about to make our job even harder!  Check out the new upcoming pops!  Books A Million (BAM) has an exclusive Grumpy Pop!

Danielle Nicole keeps coming up with new bags!

Disney Food Blog talked about the upcoming Snow White breakfast at Saks fifth Avenue.

Ruthie Davis has announced her new Princess shoe line will feature Snow White as the first release.

Disney parks is offering a new pin game that features several Snow White characters.

Are you a fan of the Disney character shoe ornaments?  If so, you'll love the upcoming character purse ornament.

One of my favorite Disney product artists, Steve Thompson, showed off some pictures of upcoming ornaments.  Look for next week's posts about these ornaments.

Disney Bound has come up with a few cute outfits inspired by our favorite characters - Snow White and the prince.

It's always great to check out some vintage pictures of Disneyland - check out these of Snow White's grotto.

Bill Robinson was at Disney's Wonderground Gallery and painted a great Evil Queen.

And finally, the fabulous Filmic Light featured a bunch of fabulous items!  Here are a few of my favorites:
An upholstered chair
Nabisco cereal toys
A really cool night light
Snow White milk bottle

June News and Updates

My, my time is flying!  It's been over 100 degrees here!

Let's start this month's review with Daveland's Blog post featuring the hag on Snow White's Scary Adventure.

I'm amazed at all the different things that Disney put characters on - including this play and this Shoe box.

Check out these great vintage pics of the dwarfs as walk-around characters.

Disney continues to fuel my tsum tsum problem with a new Snow White blind bag and a mini plush set.

Have you checked out Heritage Auctions Animation auction?  Wow!

You can purchase the home of a Disney Animator who worked on Snow White!

June's Disney Store Sketchbook ornament features Snow White - be sure to pick one up. There is a pin too.

Wonderground Gallery

Wonderground Gallery in Downtown Disney is one of my favorite places.  On a recent visit I picked up a few postcards that I just fell in love with:

This is part of a four part piece by Jerrod Maruyama titled Spring Flowers made for the EPCOT flower and garden festival.  Isn't she the cutest?

"A Villains Apple" by Gregg Visintainer

If you've never looked closely at Gregg's work, you are missing out.  Can you see the Evil Queen?

A larger budget could have gotten me a this version

Both postcards retail for $4.99

Disney's Dress Shop

Snow White dress at Vault 28

Last weekend Disney opened The Dress Shop in Disney Springs.  Here in California, Vault Disney got a variety of the dresses.  Of course, I had to go and check it out when I saw a Snow White inspired dress.  I was not disappointed!  The dresses were flying off the self and I got lucky in grabbing the size I wanted but check out how amazing it is:

When you purchase the dress it comes in this wonderful dress bag - note the Mickey on the bow.

Here is my dress - the "bites" out of the apples are actually silhouettes of the dwarfs!

Belated Updates for Month of November

Where did November go?  I know this is very late - but better late than never?!

Disney Parks Blog posted a great photo of Snow White on the carousel.

Oh My Disney has some cute princess art.

Gorilla's Don't Blog posted some fun dwarf pictures from 1974.

Has anyone seen this image of the Dwarfs in a Jazz band before?

I really like this picture of Radio City Music Hall all Snow White-d out.

Disney Style's November must have list included cute Snow White socks and celebrated Khols Snow White's line.

Here are a few of my favorite things from Filmic Light this month:
Japanese kitchen toys
Disney Animator's Pillow - I got one!
1940 card game
Tokyo smashed pennies
Snow White scarf
Cast member canoe race posters
1967 Clorox Snow White sweepstakes

Updates for the Month of December

Happy New Year to all!  I hope you and yours have a wonderful 2017 - 2016 has flown by!

DisneyBound posted a great outfit idea!  And a few Evil Queen outfits and one for the prince.

Disney Parks Blog put up a great piece of art counting down the 12 days of Christmas.  They also had a vote earlier this month on which new Alex and Ani bracelets to release - sadly, Snow White was not in the top three.

Andreas Dejas posted a beautiful Snow White Christmas card.

Speaking of Christmas Cards - D23 did an article on a variety of Christmas Cards.

Disney Parks App has some new princess key-chains.

Disney Style came up with some great Villains gifts - including some cool Evil Queen items.

I love finding great Snow White fan art and Dylan Bonner has posted an adorable Snow White and a really fun take on Disney Characters in classic Christmas movies.

Oh My Disney has a recommendation on how to make 2017 great - including advice from our favorite princess.

I love this picture of Snow White operating her ride at Disneyland.

Have you ever read Touring Plans Outlet report?  I have to admit, it is one of my favorite things to read.  This month there is a dwarfs Tee at the outlet.

Chip and Co showed off some of the new merchandise coming that includes a beautiful Snow White picture.

Jamberry nail wraps featuring Snow White are about to retire.

ABC family has a cute article on last minute shopping featuring Snow White.

Helzberg Diamonds has some beautiful Snow White jewelry!

Looking for something with a bigger price tag?  Check out this auction.  It brought in 1.3 million.

Filmic Light had some great posts these last few months:
Check out these baby rattles
Newspaper ad from Ireland
Cheese labels from Italy
Snow White 50th anniversary cup
1938 Candy wrappers
Sears Tree ornament
Check out these Christmas window displays
Costume Department buttons
I love this Dutch comic
1940 Christmas card

Going To Guide

I was recently browsing on ETSY when I saw the most adorable Snow White and Evil Queen buttons.  I had to have them!  I looked around the shop and I fell in love with everything!  The artwork is just the cutest.    Check out the I heart going to Disneyland button with the Snow White and Evil Queen on my fan-girl backpack:

It turns out the art is featured in a guide book to Disneyland, so naturally I had to purchase my own copy.

Where was this book when I was a kid?  It is sooooo fun!  I have been to Disneyland a lot, being a local and former cast member, but it is still a wonderful read.  As you can see, I have a few Disney books in my library and I believe this book is a must have!  There are two chapters that include information about Disneyland, a chapter for each land, a built in scrapbook area, and an area of mini stories that attractions are based on.  It is a beautiful and creative book.  This would be such a wonderful gift to someone who is headed to the park for the first time.  (and given with some of hte buttons sold in the shop - so cute!) Here are a few of my favorite pages:

I ordered the book for Amazon and it wasn't in pristine condition when I received it - I wish I had ordered directly from Shannon on her website.  Then I could have had an autographed book, bookmark, sticker, and membership card.  I will most definitely order her next book (Disney California Adventure) directly from her website.

E Ticket Magazine

There was a wonderful fan magazine published from 1986 to 2009.  I have been slowly accumulating all the issues and am currently missing only three more issues.  Two issues featured Snow White's Scary Adventures - issue 4 and 13.  While I'm still waiting to find issue 4, I have issue 13.

It's a very interesting look into the original attraction before it was update.

While you can no longer buy very early issues, you can purchase them on CD-Rom.  The Walt Disney Family Museum acquired all the content to the magazine and you can now purchase back issues as well as the CDS.

Disney's Tiered Tickets

I'm sure you have seen or read that Disneyland has introduced the tiered ticketing system because it's all over the blog'o'sphere.  I just wanted to share that upon looking for the calendar on Disneyland's website this is the screen showing:

Looks like the dwarfs will be working overtime this weekend!

Disney Catalog - News Update

During my winter break I have been scanning in pages and pages of Disney Catologs from the late 90s and early 00s.  I do miss the Disney Catalog- there were so many fun things.  And boy do I wish I could go back and order some of these items at these prices!

For a few years, there was a few news pages in the center of the catalog.  In the Easter 2004 catalog there was an article about the upcoming Snow White musical at Disneyland.

Luckily I was able to go to Disneyland to see the musical and pick up a few souvenirs.

Disneyland Resort Snow White Holiday Mug

Last week I made it to Disneyland for the final week of the holiday decor.  I was surprised to find that the Snow White holiday mug was still available!

They also made a popcorn bucket but it was no longer available when I was there.

I'm Going to Disneyland!

This Saturday, Whilste While We Blog will be at Disneyland Resort!  I'll be wearing my homemade Snow White ears - if you see me, say hi!  I will have some of the website buttons to give away.

Great Disneyland Snow White Pictures

I'm off at expo - so no new article this week - but check out this Davelandblog article on Disneyland's Snow White attraction.

Happy Belated Birthday Disneyland!

I finally managed to get a hold of a Snow White pin to celebrate Disneyland's 60th!

Run Disney

After months of thinking about it - I signed up for a run Disney event!  I will be running (?) the Avengers 10K in November of 2015.  Naturally I have been working hard on planning...my outfit that is.  I realize I'm running an Avenger race - but I'm still planning my Snow White outfit!
I have my Raw Threads Snow shirt

My Sparkle Skirt

A glitter Sweaty Band

and my running shoes!

Now - to train!

Brewster's Millions

A few Saturday nights ago we were looking for something to watch on TV when we ran across this movie:


I have always enjoyed this film.  As I sat watching it for the umteenth time, I got to thinking - what would I do with this situation?

Here is a refresher of the plot:
30 million dollars in 30 days - you can't tell anyone what your doing, you can't own anything new, you can't buy anything to destroy, you must get value for the services paid, and you can donate only 5% to charity and 5% can be gambled.

This got me to seriously thinking - could one do this challenge a take an ultimate around the world Disney vacation - could you spend that much at Disney in thirty days?  My thought is - absolutely!

First up, I'd donate the 5% - $1,500,000 - to charity.  I will put my personal plug here (and non-Disney related) and I'd donate to the Michael Hoefflin Foundation.  I'm not much of a gambler - so I'd skip that option and start planning the trip of a lifetime.

$28,500,000 in 30 days - let's go!

The trip will hit Disney theme park destinations - Orlando, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Anaheim - and Hawaii (for good measure).  Six destinations in 30 days means five days per location.

I am calculating prices based on two people using all kinds of Disney and fan websites - so let's spend some fictional money!

Up first Orlando -
Room for 5 nights in the Royal Asante Presidential Suite (around $2,600 a night) - $13,000
Theme park admission for 5 days with water park and more and park hopping - ($431.33 per person) - $862.33 (for 2 people)
Platinum Dining plan ($254 a day - for two people) - $5,080
Private Premium VIP tour - ($600 an hour) - 8 hours a day for the five days - $4,800
So that brings our total for the Orlando leg to around $23,800

Next Paris -
Room for 5 nights in the Sleeping Beauty Presidential Suite in the Disneyland Paris Hotel (around $3,839 a night) - $19,195
Theme park admission - ($259 per person) - $518
Assuming the VIP tour is around the same in Orlando - $4,800 for 5 days
Dining - Let's budget 200 a day per person - $2,000
That brings the Paris total to $26,513

Tokyo
Room for 5 nights in the Walt Disney Suite in Tokyo Disneyland Hotel (500,000 yen a night) -  2,500,000 yen
Theme park admission with extra park hopping (22,800 yen per person) - 45,600 yen
VIP tour (at around 21,000 yen for 3 hours) for 9 hours a day for five days - 31,500 yen
Dining - a full dinner at Magellan's runs 7500 yen - so lets use that for our meals - 225,000 yen
Our Tokyo total is then 2,779,300 yen which, according to Google, will be $22,665.97

Hong Kong
Room for 5 nights in a Hong Kong Kingdom Club Suite (9,564 HKD a night) - 47,820 HKD
Theme park admission - 4,990 HKD
VIP tour (4,688 HKD for first 3 hours and 1,300 HKD for additional hour) - 55,940 HKD for the 5 days
Dining - again, budgeting for big spender meals - $2,000
So - looking at around $20,000.

Hawaii
Room for 5 nights in the Ahu Ula Suite (around 3,726 a night) - $18,630
Spending money for the spa and excursions - 900 a day per person - $4,500
Dining - $2,000
Our total for Hawaii is now $25,130

Anaheim
Room for 5 nights in one of the Disneyland Hotel penthouses - have you seen those rooms?? - ($3,500 a night) - $17,500
Theme park tickets $630 for a 5 day park hopper
VIP tour $355 an hour - $14,200
Dining -$2,000
The Disneyland total is $34,330

After calculating all of these locations I am surprised to find that they are all around $30,000 for the five days.  I'm rounding that up to $35,000 for taxes and tips.   So for thirty days the total goes to $210,000.  I honestly thought this would be much more! So, now I'm thinking - let's make this a party!  How about 50 of my best Disney pals? Now we've spent - $12,250,000

We have $16,250,000 left to spend.

Next - hire a private jet to fly us all around the world and private car service to go to and from airports and destinations.  Because we can! Let's budget 60K for each flight and with 7 flights, it will cost us something like $420,000.  We'd need at least 14 limo rides to and from airports and if the rides cost about $350 that would be at least $5,000.  But we are bringing 50 people!  So we're looking at at least $25,000.  Of course, we'd need a private photographer to document to the trip.  I'm sure there is some Disney fan professional photographer that would sign up for the trip!  Let's hire someone (or two?) to document the trip and budget $100,000.  So for transportation and documentation - let's budget $1,000,000.

That still leaves $15,250,000.  I'm surprised at how much is left!  Now there might be more expensive ways to roll through cash at Disney that only the high rollers know, but 30 million truly is a huge some of money!

How about just renting out all of Disneyland for the last day and throwing a huge party?  Think 15 million will cover it?

Or maybe just rent a cruise boat for the month?  Maybe 30 million would cover it?

Feeling Dopey on May 22

Where will you be on May 22?  Sadly, I will be at work and not at the 24-hour event at the Disneyland Resort.  Truth be told, I find the whole idea of spending 24 hours in a theme park at more than a little frightening.  But then I saw this:

Disney Parks Blog

Disney Parks Blog

I love this design!  Marketing Gold!  It's almost enough to get me down to the event - almost.

Snow White delivered to your Disney room

I have been planning an upcoming trip to the Disneyland hotel and while checking out the Disney floral and gifts website I saw this beautiful bouquet:

The Fairest of the All bouquet is full of flowers inspired by the colors of Snow White's dress and includes a special pin.  It is $160.95 with an additional $10 delivery fee.  The bouquet is available for delivery at a Disneyland or Walt Disney World Resort.

Diamonds, Popcorn, California Adventure, and Snow White

What do they all have in common?  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be featured on an upcoming popcorn bucket to celebrate Disneyland's Diamond 60th anniversary this upcoming summer!  (Available May 22) The Snow White inspired popcorn bucket will be sold at Disney California Adventure.  Check it out on Disney Park's Blog: here.









I will be making a trip so I can have this awesome popcorn bucket for my collection!

Disney Side Fun: Grumpy Cat

In honor of Monday morning, here is a look at Grumpy Cat's trip to Disneyland and her encounter with a legend by the same name.