12.1.12 ... disneyland ii

i know this is a month overdue.

              but here i am, as promised.

making the collages turned out to be a 

bit of a challenge and life kept getting in the way.

better late than never.  

i do like them.  

hope you enjoy them, too.

evan had to have red velvet cake.
it was delicious.

i love the cleanliness and the
wonderfully designed and 
individualized trash and recycling bins.

disney california is just
another spoonful of genius.
love it there.
we feel fortunate that we happened
to visit just before the tim burton
frankenweenie display left.

as you might expect,
it is incredible.

yes we are disnerds. 
these photos are from our second visit.

we've since gone another five times.

can't wait to go back.

and i'll return at some
point with another plethora
of photographic memories.

and this is before my new iphone
arrives.  i'll be a mad woman with
tha camera once it is in my 
hot little disney lovin' hands.

sweet dreams, everyone.  
thanks for stopping by.   
until next time.  
happiness to you. 
from me. 
with heart.   

ox joon

11.01.12 ... scout flynn rider

*** we interrupt the disneyland posts to bring you a special edition***

i love that scout is still as creative and fun loving as she has always been.

18. not a speck of bah humbug here.

oh that we all could catch a piece of that.

she started off by going so far as to have me move her long awaited hair cut up a few days. 

the plan has been that she would cut her hair once she has her official college acceptance.

so it has been on hold since january.

dedication to the craft.

she had pascal and he was her first inspiration for the flynn rider choice. having always been a phoebus fan, she has a life long history of admiring the men in disney's life.
flynn was the natural identity.

now she had the chameleon and the hair. 

how did she pull off the costume?

of course she needed the soul patch.

perfect smolder.

found the great jacket (which i modified once we were home),
boots and extra belt at a local thrift store. 

and lucky us they were 50% off yesterday!
(for example the boots and belt were a whopping $1.50 each.)
the pants and blouse we had.
the satchel is crazy fate. it's a vintage coach bag i found years ago.
we use it for our movie camera bag. i removed the black 1990s camera strap
and whipped up a more natural fit
using a perfectly suited long fabric scrap.

frying pans. who knew, right?

and she, pascal and her trusty frying pan were off to music class.
they had a wonderful time. 

it was a lovely halloween. 

how was yours? 

sweet, i hope.

***i'll be back with disneyland part ii in a day or so***

thanks for stopping by. until next time. happiness to you. from me. with heart. 

ox joon

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10.27.12 ... best week update

after 326 days in california we finally fulfilled our dream of 

bringing scout to disneyland.

here she is with her first visit pin and her sparkling new annual passport.

it's beautiful and the weather was perfect, too.

 

and we were ready to roll!

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ev had never been to disneyland either. 

and he'd only been to disneyworld once. 

he was pretty excited.

after walking down main street u. s. a. and enjoying the sights there 

we headed right to adventure land and ...

...the tiki bird pavilion.

it was such fun seeing this attraction again after so many years. i first visited disneyworld during its premiere year and the last time i was there was spring 1983. my one and only single day disneyland visit was in spring 1985. seeing the tiki birds through ev and scout's eyes was precious. a great start.

we had a superb day.
here's scout loving her second run on autopia - a definite favorite for her.

disneyland deserves its reputation as the happiest place one earth.

i can't believe we are a mere 40 minutes away. 

the next 12 months are going to be one of our happiest years on earth!

tomorrow i will share a little bit of our second visit. 

so stay tuned. 

and i'd love to hear your disneyland or world memories. 

hope you'll leave a comment.

thanks for stopping by. until next time. happiness to you. from me. with heart. 

ox joon

ps: thanks to scout who took all but two of these photos.  

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9.16.11 ... scout's animation take one

inspired by her hero, mr. walt, seen here with his own movie camera, scout made her first animated bit today. i wanted to embed it but we're not sure how to do that and i am really tired so i will include a link. i'm using this as my creative post for today because she had some crazy technical issues and we couldn't solve the mystery. then i decided to google the question and, miraculously, lucked onto a detailed process for getting around the nutty iphoto glitch. hooray. so i helped. i also worked on a number of other creative projects but none of them completed or worthy of a photo. 

Here's the scout creation link:

http://defying-explanation.tumblr.com/post/10296734925/day-one-oh-eight-this-...

hope you all enjoy it.

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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6.7.11 ... scout

today i started my pinterest site so that was a huge creation. i don't really know what i am doing so i haven't gotten too far, but i still spent all morning on it. i'd put my link here but i don't even know what it is. i tried to figure out the pin button, too, but couldn't. oh well, there's always tomorrow. if you are on pinterest and know what you're doing, my id name is joonie. 

meanwhile, back at the ranch, i needed some photos of this vintage movie camera for my etsy shop and asked scout if she'd help me out. i love these three photos because they are playful and because of the pairing of her with a camera and her hero, walt, with his. and that photo of him is so wonderful, too. yes, it is mr. disney. how adorable is he?

tomorrow is scout's 17th birthday but she still knows how to have fun with the little things in life. i love that about her.

today i sent an email to the sign language school, asking f scout could accompany me when i start next week. scout has completed the first two sessions. this will be my first. the response was: That is okay but she might be bored sitting in a class she has already taken. and all i could think of was that scout could never be bored. not in a million years. you couldn't pay her to be bored. and i realized what a marvelous happenstance that is. if we all approached life with that sense of creative wonder, unending curiosity and genuine interest in everything what a beautiful cultural environment we'd be sharing.

she's my beautiful girl. you all who are following my journey here will look back on this year and be able to say 'i knew her when'. i guarantee it.

ciao for now. birthday tales tomorrow evening. don't miss them.

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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