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Mickey Mouse texting gloves!
My life is complete 🙂
Merry Mouse Gear
Pretty blue and silver Christmas display found in Mouse Gear.earlier this evening. I think I’m starting to get into the holiday spirit now. Thanks, Mouse Gear 🙂
A tasty temptation in EPCOT
I have a gingerbread tradition established with one of my nieces – maybe we need a Mickey Mouse cookie cutter this year.
Admit it. You’re jealous.
Mickey’s been framed
Themed merchandise racks – something kids might not notice cause they’re too short to catch this perspective.
Never accept coffee from a mouse
Disney coffee is legendary for being pretty much uniformly dreadful. Therefore, as cute and ingenious as Wire Servant Mickey seems to be, DON’T DO IT. They brew Starbucks at the Swan and Dolphin, just a short boat ride away. Just sayin’ !!!
The sun is unrelenting, so I’m going for a browse through MouseGear to stay cool; will let you know if I find anything interesting!
To join Woody and Buzz
I already have Woody and Buzz hanging out at my desk at home; time for Jessie and Bullseye to join them 🙂
a Dowtown Disney MUST shopportunity
The Nieceling has never been to Tren-D. I know, shocking. Fortunately, Auntie Tink is here to remedy the situation.
My reward, from Fossil at Universal Orlando
So this is the reward I spoke of, for getting the new job. The new work laptop fits 🙂 And it was the last one in the store of its kind. The universe has spoken 😉
Reward time
I told myself the next time I came here, I would have a new job. And I do. So now I get a purse. That’s how it works:)
MCO shopping mall
The boy wizard makes his presence felt even at the airport.
Killing time and getting a Disney fix
Picking up the Nieceling in 20 minutes or so. We’re going to see Harry Potter and going home tomorrow evening – no time to see the Mouse, except tangentially.
If a Disney fan decides to get a dog…
…Shouldn’t they get a White Shepherd? And name it Bolt?
Vinyl is back
I like this one – I grew up with vinyl "albums"
This is the REAL Tinker Bell
The original pixie attitude LOL
Vinyl is back
I like this one – I grew up with vinyl "albums"
It’s t-shirt time in Mouse Gear
Still raining, but more gently now. Let’s go browsing and find amusing things in MouseGear.
And what’s freakier than sun-der showers in EPCOT?
Marvel Comics merchandise for sale in EPCOT!
Well, it was only a matter of time
On Disney’s Boardwalk – this is just WRONG! @DisneyMoose
We are staging a demonstration of our displeasure…
World of Disney: I wonder what he majored in?
Just look in my dryer instead
You want mismatched socks? LOL
New store called Little Mismatched – nothing matches!
“Baby” character craze gone wrong, Part deux
Spider Tot
Spider Tot
Does whatever a Spider Tot does
“Baby” character craze gone wrong
Baby Hulk
A rarely seen Disney character
Last time I saw her, she was singing in the bathtub in "Mickey’s Fire Brigade"
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Disney Merchandise Mecca
Love to have a good browse in the Emporium and connected stores – especially when the crowd is fairly light like this.
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Legends! I wanna be one!
I can’t tell you how beautiful this day is. Here’s a hint. But really, photos cannot do it justice.
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Your life was just not complete – until now!
Vinylmation pins – start your collection today! Yes, we know – you already collect pins and you already collect Vinylmation. But we’re just not done extracting that last dime from you. So g’wan – you know you want to 😉
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Spittin’ into the wind
There’s a breeze, which makes all that Stitch spit list to the side a bit. Where will it land next?
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And that wasn’t even the worst part
This… THIS is the worst part
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I need someone to ‘splain this to me
I understand Mickey dressing up as Woody. but… MARIE???
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Someone has a sense of humor
So, who’s more hypnotic – the cat or the bear!
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New “Memories” banners in the World of Disney store
Now, you don’t even need admission to the Magic Kingdom in order to enjoy photos of complete strangers LOL
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This Minnie Mouse purse pretty much says it
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Refurb at Downtown Disney
Coming in from Lot C up alongside the World of Disney store. The LEGO dragon in the lake is ahead behind the wall to the right
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Florida shirts!
Seen in the American Adventure gift shop – shirts and schlep bags with the orange bird on ’em. Cute!
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Britain’s Better Bear
It’s Paddington Beaer! Being sold directly across the aisle from a pile of Duffy bears, stacked in proportions that can only be described as "vulgar". Ugly American consumerism strikes again.
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Heeeeelllllp meeee, I want one
Leprachan Duffy!
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But I really do have TOO MANY
…Disney t-shirts. My whole closet is packed with ’em.
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Destined to become a classic
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Mouse Parts
Only the tasty parts will do LOL
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Snow White: The Katy Perry Edition
I swear – passed this in Tarzhay and thought at first glance, "Ewww, a Katy Perry doll!"
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WOW! $5 Disney film soundtrack!
I just saw this in my News Feed on Facebook. This almost never happens for one of the newer Disney films! For a limited time, and in honor of Black History Month, Amazon is offering the soundtrack to Disney’s “The Princess & The Frog” for only $5 !!! This is for the MP3 download version of the soundtrack album. Not sure how long this is good for, so if you want it, go get it!
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The definition of “zoo”
The Christmas store in Downtown Disney!
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I survived!
And I bought nothing. Isn’t that amazing? I think I deserve junk food for dinner LOL
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Darkness falling on Downtown Disney
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No, don’t try to stop me
I’m goin’ in !!! If I’m not out in an hour, send in the National Guard
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Looks like Christmas upchucked in the WoD store
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Where Santa hangs out
Downtown Disney visitors can stop in to see Santa
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Reindeer in Florida
Found some sparkly reindeer grazing outside the World Of Disney store
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Animal Kingdom holiday wreath
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Festive Animal Kingdom display
I love the use of aqua blue in these Christmas decorations
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Art Of Disney decorated
This is always a dangerous store for me to enter
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Obligatory DAK shopportunity
Not buying much these days, but I always love to look 🙂
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They talk when you shake’em
Phineas and Ferb -ushering in a whole new era of "Shaken Action Figure Syndrome"
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The cute boots *sigh*
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O noeZ – magnetic Duffy!
Someone has me under a weird Harry Potter spell. I want one!!!
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They haven’t any legs – creepin’ me out!
They’re all torso and skirt. That’s just not right!
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I smell a rat in EPCOT
Guess where I am. Think I will go sniff the soaps a while.
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Duffy conquers Mexico
This is just ridiculous – and I bet mucho denaro is made!
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Duffy takes over planet; film at 11
Do people (besides my Nieceling) actually purchase this thing?
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Quirky Queen Sure Is Mean
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Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter have worked together on some strange films – Sweeney Todd, The Corpse Bride and recently, Disney’s update to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Alice in Wonderland. It’s not surprising that they’ve frequently worked together. Just as Johnny Depp has been making his career out of playing idiosyncratic characters, Helena Bonham Carter seems to be making a career out of playing mean girls. Her ongoing turn as Bellatrix LeStrange in the Harry Potter series seems destined to cement her image in our minds as a wild-eyed (not to mention the hair!) hellion bent on evil and destruction.
I’m looking forward to seeing her reprise the role when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 hits the theaters next week. Here she is pictured as the Red Queen on a few pieces of merchandise found at MouseGear in Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park. I like the trick of the red heart superimposed over her lips. The heart makes it appear as though she is pursing, but if you look closely at the line of her lips, they are in repose and not pursed at all. Neat trick!

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Disney’s Contemporary Resort – looking for Halloween
Soon after I arrived at the Contemporary, my third mobile phone battery of the day gave me a warning. It was just as well – there were not too may signs of Halloween at this resort.
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A good browse in the Disney resort shops is a must
Even if you don’t buy, you can still shop. They’re two separate verbs, you know 😉
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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good
I didn5 get one but I wanted to. They had frames for ’em too!
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Filch’s Emporium at Hogwarts – it’s Fluffy! When you press the button…

Filch’s Emporium at Hogwarts – it’s Fluffy! When you press the button…, originally uploaded by Erin aka Tink*~*~*.
…he snores! There’s also a Hedwig puppet with a swivel head. All out of Sorting Hat puppets – alas!
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Vacation Shopping For Inspiration
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There are many benefits to shopping, especially while on vacation. In addition to flooding the brain with pleasurable endorphins (like chocolate), shopping can deliver some important inspirational messages. Next time you are in Walt Disney World, why not shop for inspiration? There are a variety of uplifting messages to be had in the T-shirt section of MouseGear alone!
Inspirational Message: BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!
Inspirational Message: HELP OTHERS!
Inspirational Message: IT ALL STARTED WITH A MOUSE!
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Vacation Shopping Teaches Important Lessons
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I therefore refuse to grow up.
Who’s with me?

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Day trippin’ on Sanibel Island
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Last Friday, just before the three-day weekend festivities here in the United States, I took myself over to Sanibel Island for the day. I am very lucky to live within easy driving distance of the island (half an hour from driveway to causeway), and I really should do this more often.
As I approached the causeway, I encountered this truck on Summerlin Road. Considering all the “Mickey Mouse In The Wild” encounters I’d already experienced that week, I thought the “Don’t Mess With The Mouse!” slogan on the back of the truck was apropos 😉 click photo to see it bigger








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finding Mickey all over town these days :)
Lots of Mickey Mouse notebooks in Target
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Mickey On A Window
Shelling at Home Goods in Ft Myers LOL
If you visit Sanibel and the shelling isn’t good, just stop at this store on your way back to the airport ;o)
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Love finding Disney in unexpected places, too
pretty sure this chef dude was on lots of the merchandise for the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival last year. Found in Kohl’s D on sale!
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Shells can happen anywhere
I love finding shell-ish stuff in unexpected places. This is in the BJ’s Warehouse near my house.
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Mickey as he should be – Emporium, Magic Kingdom
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Tsunami at EPCOT
I’m told this pattern is from a famous Japanese painting from the 1800s. I think I need a huge copy of this for my livingroom because it will match my blue suede damnsofa
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Garden statuary for sale just outside Japan in EPCOT
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Save the tiger! Save the tiger!
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Shopportunity of the strange at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
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You might think this is odd, but when it comes to leaving a Disney park, I plan my exit route around how many shops I can hit as I make my way toward the gate. (Long-time readers are feigning shock. Tink *~*~* – a shopper? No! Really? ;p ) There are a couple of reasons you should consider doing this, too. One, you are addicted to Disney merchandise, and even if you’re not buying, you’re still looking. Two, if it is a really hot day, the shops are your air conditioned refuge. Some of them are quite long, actually a series of shops strung together; you can get from one to the next without having to exit to the sidewalk. For instance, at the Magic Kingdom you can enter Casey’s at the rear where the bleachers and cartoons are, and walk clear down to the Emporium without ever having to leave the comfort of climate control.
At Disney’s Animal Kingdom, there are major shops spaced out all around Discovery Island, so no matter which land you are coming from, you’re passing merchandise and cool air. The shopportunities are just too good to pass up, so you enter to see what you can see. Much of the merchandise will be similar to what you just saw in the last shop you were in, but once in a while you come across something unique, different…. ok, odd. Take this Pirate Tinkerbell pin as an example. Adorable, right? Well, yes – but only until you get close enough to realize that her eyes are these strange, glowing, neon blue blobs and it makes her look like a pod person ready to shed her humanoid form and take over the planet. I would have bought her, except that she gave me the willies!
Here’s another head-scratcher. We already knew that Ariel didn’t have legs until her dear Auntie Ursula gave her some in exchange for her lovely singing voice. What we didn’t know is that Ursula apparently reneged on the deal, for here we see that instead of legs, Ariel’s got a miniature theater under her skirt, complete with her own “mini-me” shown here in the boat with Prince Eric. The statue is very pretty but when you think about it, she’s actually floating legless above a rowboat and that’s just a tad bizarre. I passed on this one, too.
This t-shirt is a bit of a change of pace for Mickey. Normally, he’s friendly, charming, outgoing and always smiling. On this t-shirt, not so much. Mickey is depicted here running, with his hands flailing in the air, looking over his shoulder in abject terror. Clearly, someone – or someTHING – is chasing him. However, we cannot see that because the t-shirt ends just where a would-be pursuer would begin. We may never know what’s made poor Mickey take off like this, but judging from his face, it can’t be good! Still, this one is more edgy than strange, so there’s the possibility I’d buy it, just to be droll. 😉
So what about you?
Do you cut through the shops in the Disney parks to cool off?
And what’s the strangest Disney merchandise you’ve ever seen?
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Shopportunity knocks: from whimsical to bizarre
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🙂 My new favorite place for a Disney shopportunity is Tren-D, a new-ish high-end boutique attached to Team Mickey in Downtown Disney. This is where you will find some of the more… um, “interesting” Disney merchandise on property. I’d call the place a mix between “whimisical” and “edgy”. Perhaps that’s why Mickey has that look on his face – he’s a bit stunned, don’t you think? Certainly all the new “Alice” merchandise will fit here nicely.
Here is one of those “whimsical” things I was talking about. This is a human-sized statue of Mickey Mouse that’s been splatter-painted in bright primary colors. He stands sentinel between Tren-D and Team Mickey, gesturing for us to enter the boutique. Of course he wants us to go in – chances are very good that you will walk out of there sporting a lighter wallet and a high-end purse you didn’t know you needed and never imagined you’d fall in love with
They look like Stepford airline stewardesses but I believe they are actually supposed to represent Disneyland cast members from the early, early days. A single one of these effigies would have been sort of an art-deco tribute to Disneyana, a 20th century object d’art – but a collection of them all standing in a row, all looking exactly alike – well, it’s just creepy. I do like the quasi-psychedelic Mickey portrait, though 🙂 He makes a nice backdrop.
I hope you enjoyed our Ruby Tuesday shopping trip!
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Not as scary as the Tiki Room gods…
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Shopportunity at Mango Bay
It’s thundering so we had to get off the beach. Of course, this means shopportunity! I like the colors of this straw bag at Mango Bay but the bag itself is meh.
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Nora Butler coffee mug
Love the artist Nora Butler – have a collection of her post cards.
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Shopportunity @ Mousegear
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I don’t get this Vinylmation thing. Really, I just don’t get it!
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WHAT have I done?!!?!?
Dooney and Bourke… I never even heard of them until they made these bags. I didn’t even think I would like a bag with Mickey all over it! Crap, why did I go in that store!
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Shopportunity!
Stuffed from dinner at BOMA, and Downtown Disney is on the way back to my hotel, so….
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Tales from the Mickey Mouse shopping bag
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🙂 I’ve been trying very hard to remember to bring my own shopping bags with me whenever I go out for groceries and such. It hasn’t been easy – I’m sure there are a few of you out there who are in the same boat. You earnestly went out and bought those cloth-like bags, vowing you would never use plastic ever again. And then you forget all about them until you are at the check out. Oops, they’re on the kitchen counter / hanging on a hook installed on the door from the laundry room to the garage / on the front seat of the car. See? I’ve been there, I know! 😀
Well on Saturday, I actually remembered the bag. It’s a red bag with Mickey Mouse on it – got it at the Disney store a few years back. It just so happened that a few of the things I bought on Saturday were red too, so I decided that this week’s Ruby Tuesday should be all about “Tales form the Mickey Mouse shopping bag”. Here’s some of the stuff that went into it.
The biggest surprise of the day was finding my favorite John Frieda shampoo in Walgreens. For months, all I’ve seen on the shelves in any store was the brunette formula and the blonde formula – never the redhead formula! It just mysteriously vanished from the shelves in Target, CVS, Walgreens and any number of other stores. I recently had sort of an emergency with my dwindling supply of this stuff – I had shampoo but was out of conditioner. I actually looked for it on Amazon, and lo and behold, there it was – John Frieda Radiant Red Conditioner
. I was so happy to have found it, but equally happy that I found some locally again. Yeah, sometimes it’s just the little things 🙂
Moving on – also in Walgreens I found these small packets of Wildly Cherry M&Ms near the checkout. I’d tried them before and I loved them, but I am a bit frustrated that they don’t come in a larger bag. Maybe that’s a good thing… I haven’t stopped to calculate how long I have to spend on the treadmill to burn off a pack of these babies, but I am most assuredly better off with the small pack than the big bag! Into the Mickey bag went three little packages of them. I shall hoard them carefully so not as to upset the delicate balance of calories in vs. calories burnt.
Here we are in my local Publix supermarket, where I encountered the weirdest find of the day. These blushing beauties are called Saturn peaches. I have no idea what possessed someone to breed peaches that are reminiscent of the pushed-in face of a King Charles spaniel, and even less of a clue as to why they are dubbed “Saturn”. They do not look even remotely like Saturn. I find them to be singularly unattractive, and that somehow equates to “not very tasty” in my mind, so I actually passed on purchasing any. However, their ruddy little cheeks provided an irresistable photo opportunity, so I snapped away at them for the blog.
Last but not least – Valentine’s day is just around the corner, and the stores have been amply stocked since practically the day after Christmas will all sorts of Valentine goodness. Russel Stover has some cute little heart shaped candy boxes this year, with fun images on them. The dragon image attracted me because of my recent foray into the Chinese zodiac (Chinese New Year falls on Valentine’s Day this year). I think I saw these on the shelf in Walgreen’s too, but I was a good girl and didn’t buy any. I’m not really in the mood to tack on any miles to my daily treadmill sentence and in enough trouble already, what with the M&Ms 😉
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Love this Downtown Disney store
Just red things from this past week
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It’s an excellent time of year to participate in Mary’s Ruby Tuesday meme – there’s a predominance of red things in the stores and catalogs due to the rapidly approaching Christmas holiday. Still, there’s always red stuff abounding, if you just keep an eye out for it.

Making an effort to be on a fresh fruit kick lately. It’s not really an effort when the strawberries are as delicious as these were!

I found these in a catalog called Acorn. One of my nieces collects rubber duckies, but I have the feeling they’ve overtaken her life, so I’m going to pass on buying these… however if she really OOOs and Ahhs over them, I will of course turn sucka immediately 🙂

This was weird – I was in Tarzhay (my fancy way of pronouncing "Target") when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a pirate nutcracker with his very own… nutcracker!
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I smell delicious
The Prada representative was not there so I could not get more samples. Will have to time things better next time
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Time to feed my new EPCOT addiction, which is…
…PRADA! I got some samples when I was here in June, and I’m in love with the stuff!
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OMG it’s that dog…
…with the keys from POTC!
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Grinning but not at all grim
Decorations just inside the side entrance to MouseGear in EPCOT
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I-MAAAA-gi-na-shun….
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Vampire Mickey
I never thought I’d see the day… But I have to say that I like the Mouse with an "edge"
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Deliver us from retail…
I REALLY want to go all commando consumer, but I have to meet the Mooses in an hour. Not that I couldn’t do some serious damage in MouseGear in an hour, but I want more, more, more time than that!
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Hidden Mickey on Sanibel!
Ok, so it’s sorta abstract, but there it is!
browsing Pandora’s Box on Sanibel
One of my very favorite stores on Sanibel Island is Pandora’s box
Life Is Good store on Sanibel
My kind of meeting