Saturday, January 26, 2008

We're going to Disney World!

YES! It looks like my oldest daughter is healthy and we can go on our trip to Disney World! I'm so excited! When she was first diagnoised (bilateral Wilms Tumor), we put our plans on hold, not knowing if she'd be up to going. But since she had her surgery in November, we decided we NEEDED this trip. Something that was NOT hosptial, chemo or sick related!

So, I've been preparing for this trip since we got home in December. Not a whole lot of time for the planner in me but I'll take what I can get! I created a few things for our family.


Here's the first one:

This one is Samantha's Autograph book. I didn't want to buy the hard bound book at the park, yet I still wanted something cute but easy to take apart and place each signature with the picture of my daughter and that character. I used plan white cardstock for the pages, cut out a Mickey head using my Expression, printed Samantha's Autograph Book on the 'puter, cut chipboard to place at the front and back (to stabilize it) and then used my Zyron to laminate it. On the inside there is my information and resort so that in case it gets lost, it can still be returned to us.



Each girl has a favorite color. Can you guess what Samantha's is?? So after I bound the pages with my Bind It All (from Cindy at StampinScrapin), I added each girls favorite colors to the wires to dress it up. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.
Here is Emily's:


Her favorite color is yellow but I was afraid if I printed out Emily's Book in yellow it would be too hard to see. So I compromised and used Purple but used yellow ribbon. She loved it.

Now of course since it's not hard bound, they needed a clipboard to have a hard surface right? Here they are:
(Back)












(Front)

(Back)


(Front)

Each girl picked their colors to paint the clipboard. Then I made Minnie, Mickey, Goofy at 5" and Daisy, Donald, Chip, Dale and Pluto at 4" on the Expression. Each girl then took the sheets of Disney stickers and decorated to their hearts content. They're pretty cute, I think. Not bad for a day's work.


Of course that's not all. I also made personalized t-shirts for the WHOLE family. Since my MIL is coming with us, I did one for her too. I didn't take pictures of all of them before I packed but here are a few:

I can hardly wait to get on that airplane and go! It won't come soon enough for me!

4 comments:

Jennifer_GlitterInMyHair said...

All of your Disney stuff is adorable!! I hope you have a fabulous trip. :)

LaunchingProjectH said...

I'm so happy you get to take this trip with your family! I hope you have a lovely time and take lots of photos to share with us on your blog!

What great gifts for your children to take along with them!

They're going to treasure your scrapbook forever!

Travel safely!

LaunchingProjectH said...

I'm so happy that you get to take this trip with your children! They will have a wonderful time!

The clipboards and autograph books are so cute!

Take lots of photos to share with us on your blog.

Can't wait to see the scrapbook layouts this vacation will produce!

Travel safely!

Tammy Hershberger said...

Cute ideas! How you had a good time!