Harry Potter and a Beach Day..wait what?

The last couple of days have been some of the most fun days EVER.

No really, I've done so many fun things, I'm having trouble believing that this is my life now.

Thursday night was the midnight showing of the last and final Harry Potter film.

(Yeah, the one I used two how posts to gush over)

And y'all, it did not disappoint!

I loved it! I really just loved it!

 There were a few parts that I thought well that could have been done a tad better.

But I think this was the best of the series.  

I laughed, I got startled, and yes I cried (A LOT).

I even went and saw it again on Friday night. It was just as good, if not better the second time around! 

And now....

PICTURE TIME:

I was ready with my Harry Potter 3D glasses and my Muggle shirt! 

It was a great final HP midnight show!

Now for Part Two.

On Saturday Suzanne, our friend Sara, some of Sara's peeps, and I went to the beach.

Suzanne and I had this plan to just fill up the car with a full tank of gas and then just explore the Gulf Coast.  We had no set plans whatsoever. We did however, have some criteria.  

Where ever we ended up we wanted it to be historic, have adorable little beach shops, and of course the beach itself.

So we hit the road with nothing but a full tank of gas and a map of Florida.  

NOT a GSP, just a regular, old-fashion map.

We hit the jackpot when we found Anna Maria Island.  YES, I said ISLAND!

It was absolutely PERFECT!

We laid on the beach, we browsed some adorable little beach shops, we had a wonderful seafood dinner, and we watched a magnificent Gulf Coast sunset.  

Anna Maria Island and Holmes Beach were our destination.

YAY for sunshine and the deep blue sea.

Yummy ice cream cones!

There were Sea Turtle nests EVERYWHERE! 

If only they had hatched that night.  Looks like we're just gonna have to go back.

Shucks.

Beach Adventures are my new favorite,

Kathleen

It All Ends Tonight

Y'all all know about my obsession with Harry Potter via my last post.

So I'm sure it is no surprise that I will be attending one of the hundreds of midnight showings of

the last and final film tonight.

I'm heading to the theatre at 9:00pm (yes 3 hours before the movie starts) so we can get good seats for the show.

Earlier today, Ashley (my bff from my previous post) and I, each went to the Hot Topic in our respective  states (she in NM and I in FL) and picked out a shirt that we could wear to the show tonight. 

Unfortunately we couldn't find the exact same on, but we both got Muggle shirts and will wear them tonight!

We may not be together in person but we will def be together in spirit.

Ashley took this picture at the Barnes and Noble in Las Cruces and I love it:

So true and something EVERYONE should remember!

It all ends tonight and it is going to be one of the saddest and most exciting nights EVER!

Pictures of tonights shenanigans will be posted soon! :) 

Oh and if you're going to an HP midnight showing.......I hope you have a blast! :)

I'm really in the mood to blog.   But in all honestly I have no idea what to blog about at the moment.

Haven't done anything super exciting except work the last couple days.  So I'm just gonna give a random assortment of things that have happened/what I'm excited about happening!

- I "Earned my Ears!"  I know, you're thinking, "What the heck does that mean?"

Well that means that I passed all my training for Guest Relations! Go ME! 

But it also means that I am totally on my own now.  Kinda scary.  Everyone is very helpful though and I have no problem asking anyone a question when I have one.

Here is a picture of a few of my EC Guest Relations peeps:

  

(Sorry I'm too lazy right now to jazz this pic up)

-  My best friend Ashley finally booked her flight to come and see me!! 

She'll be here the first week of August and we have some super fun stuff planned.

We're going to St. Augustine, we're doing Disney World (obvi), and we're going to 

THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER!!

See I've been to Orlando twice since that magical place opened and I've resisted going because Ashley and I promised each other that our first time there would be together.  Because no one really understands our obsession with Harry Potter like we do.  

Harry Potter is what first bonded Ashley and me.  Seriously, that might sound totally and completely dorking but it is 100% true.  

Allow me to demonstrate:

 YES....this is us at the book 7 midnight release party at Barnes and Noble (my favorite store in the world)

YES....we had a party to celebrate beforehand at Ashely's house where we decorated with HP party decorations, made chocolate frogs, butterbear, acid pops, and pumpkin pasties,  and decorated the fireplace with all of Ashley's Harry Potter merchandise.  (She has enough HP stuff to fill up her own store)

YES....we wore matching S.P.E.W shirts.

and

YES.....we took a picture with a cardboard cutout of Harry Potter.  But that is nothing, at the midnight release party for book 5, they had a cut out where you could put your face next to Harry's.  Sorry no picture for that.

Anyway,

I'm telling you we are OBSESSED and I LOVE it!

(Yeah I was that excited.  My smile is huge.)

- Speaking of Harry Potter, in two days (49 hours and 39 minutes to be exact) I will be sitting in a theatre waiting to watch the final Harry Potter movie.  I am too excited for words.  I literally do not know to accurately put my excitement into words.  

Therefore I will hold off until I can post pictures from that night to show my excitement. 

Ok now that I have just given y'all the most random post ever (that actually turned into a let me show you how obsessed I am with Harry Potter post) .

Until next time! :) 

Success at Last!

Thanks to one of my very best friends: Monica (you can check out her fun blog here)

I figured out how to salvage our canvases.  

So when Monica and I lived together our sophomore year of college

(that was 3 years ago...scary)

She came up with a super cute way decorate our walls.  

It is like the easiest craft project anyone could do...EVER.

All you have to do is buy fabric and hot glue them to canvases.

Easy as 1...2...3

We went to Joanne's Fabrics and bought some fun fabric that went with the colors in our pillows and slapped those babies on the canvases!  

We now have a lovely wall decor.

I think I've decided that simple is best in the crafting department. 

For me anyway. : )

Epic Fail in the Craftiness Department

So remember a few days ago when I posted about my wonderful day of crafting?

Well we attempted to have another day of amazing craftyiness today.

And let me just say it was a fail of EPIC proportions.

I said last post that our lovely canvases with the Disney lyrics were not finished just yet.  They needed a 

little something else to make them really pop.

Well, Suanne and I decided that something extra would be to outline the letters with brown paint

(special thanks to Megan from Mackey Madness for her thoughts, we took your idea and ran with it!)

then we thought we would Mod Podge the entire thing to give a little glossy look.

Off to Michaels we go.

We return with some brown Sharpie paint pens (they're awesome btw)

and some Mod Podge.  Now while we were at Michaels and looking at the Mod Podge we thought it would add a little somethin somethin if we got gold shimmer Mod Podge.  

So to make a long story short, we get home, outline all 9 canvases and Suz starts to Mod Podge them.

I ask, "Why is it so gold?"

Suz says, "Oh it'll dry clear no worries. It just needs to actually dry."

(20 or so minutes later)

All 9 canvases are not a pretty shimmery color we thought they would be once they dried.  

All 9 canvases are now this really ugly shimmery GOLD color that is completely uneven and barely shows ANY of the lettering we spent all day stamping Disney lyrics on.

We now have a set of canvases that in no way, shape or form can be put on a wall in our living room.  

So yeah....that is where we are at in the craftiness department at this point.  Totally disappointed in our crafty skills.  We've both realized that art is HARD.

I would post pictures, but they would just hurt everyone's eyes, they are so horrible.

Bright side to the story:

  I  think I've come up with a way to salvage the canvases.  

And I will only write about it if they are a success and come out AMAZING! 

I hope you're crafty projects turn out better than ours did and if not please let me know so I'm not the only one who thinks being crafty is hard work! :)

Happy 4th of July!

Wishing you and yours a very happy 4th of July!

Everyone should go:

-eat some hotdogs

-watch/set off some fireworks

-thank those who serve in our military to maintain our freedom

-wear red, white, and blue ALL DAY LONG

-watch some baseball

and of course

-spend time with family and friends!

This lovely 4th of July I will be spending the day with this guy:

(and by spending time I really mean working)

.  YAY! But afterwards I'll be sticking around EPCOT to watch some awesome possum FIREWORKS!

Because if anyone knows how to do 4th of July celebrations right, its Disney.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!

God Bless AMERICA!!

Mad About the Plaid

First I'd like to share some pictures:

YAY!! I finally had my first day in costume at EPCOT!  I was super nervous because I was being trained in the DRC room.  (Not too sure what DRC stands for) But it basically is just a phone room.  Where we make dining reservations for guests.  

So if you ever call Disney Dining and you hear this:

"Thank you for calling Disney Dining, this is LANA ROSE, how may I help you?"

That's ME! :)  

I also got a tad bit of experience in our Lobby where I saw a family from Texas! One of their kids even had a Texas State shirt on.  

And I may for may not have gotten ridiculously excited and yelled,

 "GO BOBCATS"

It was awesome.