Keebles World

As sucky as work has been lately, I decided that maybe I just need a good challenge, so I think I'm going to join in with Justine's Just One July SAL. I haven't found an official signup list, but I know that my friend Tiffany is also joining in (and she's doing a giveaway as well). Of course, it's not too difficult to figure out which project I will be stitching on, Lilo and Stitch Otherwise by Neni Designs: I am ending the month here, at almost the first row finish: And I'm not sure where the month is going to take me, but I'm hoping to finish, or get close to finishing, the first three rows. It's a huge goal but maybe a lofty goal is just what I need right now (or it could just kill my stitching mojo altogether, guess we'll see!).

I think I've probably mentioned once or twice (or ten times) how much I loved Pecos Bill's Tall Tale Inn and Cafe, located in Frontierland in the Magic Kingdom. If you missed it, the best place is my last review from 2013 located HERE or my first review from 2012 HERE . If there was one thing I could always count on, it was a taco salad from Pecos. I wonder if I had a premonition in 2014 that all was about to change because I had three of them in one trip: When I heard that they were changing the menu back in 2015, I was kind of glad we were going to California that year because I just couldn't deal with not having my beloved taco salad. By this year though, I was ready to face the inevitable and give their new menu items a try. First of all, the interior or the ordering system didn't change at all, just the menu. They went with more of an overall Mexican theme instead of just the one item. Amber went with the Chicken Taco Salad because they were out of ste...

Sorry I got off track with the numbers. I think I wrote post #7 first, but somehow managed to schedule it after #8. Oh well, caught up now! I'm not going to rehash all my previous topiary pics in night form, but I did want to share a couple of the highlights because they are really completely different in darkness. Just remember, these are all hand-held with no tripod, so please forgive! On this one, you can see the reflections of the weird lighting effects they do to make them look so pretty: I find it odd that they can do all the detail for the Beast's face, but not Belle's: I have to admit, as much as I dislike Frozen, this was one of my favorites: And my absolute favorite:

The food pictures should be easier (and lighter) than the topiary posts simply because I'm the primary food picture-taker, so I don't have to scour through two separate albums this time! If there is one thing I love to do, it's hit the food booths at the Food and Wine Festival and I was hoping that the Flower and Garden Festival food booths would be just as good (if not better). Having just gotten back from Disneyland in California last October and being slightly disgruntled at the food there, my hopes might have been higher than usual for Disney World. Although the F&G food booths were good, none were as outstanding as the F&W booths typically are, but that could be because of the quantity of choices. Whereas the F&W Festival has an average of 40 or so booths, the F&G Festival only had 13, so there isn't as many options and we all know what a picky eater I am. For a complete listing of this year's booths, check out The Disney Food Blog , one...

I did a horrible job at finishing the row for Lilo and Stitch Otherwise. I left off here last week: And due to other commitments, other chores, etc, I only got to here: Maybe I'll get the row finished this upcoming week. I did get Angel in Lilac added to my Jasmine wall:

This is going to be a harder post to do, basically because I have hundreds of photos of the different flower gardens that were at the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival and it's too hard to pick. I debated on doing a post on each garden, but again, it would take me FOREVER to do that and I think it's time to move on to other reviews. So I decided that I'm just going to post a few select pictures from the various gardens or from areas of the Flower and Garden Festival that I haven't previously covered. I like to look at flowers (from a distance since bugs are almost always near), but it's rare that I can tell one flower from another. I just like the pretty colors, so it probably wouldn't do me any good to describe these pictures anyway. Oh, and these are also a mix of mine and my Sister's pictures. I personally couldn't go into the Butterfly Garden (bugs), but Am took plenty for me! And that's about as broad of an overview...