DISNEY PRINCESS ALERT 2010!

Who says you have to be a little girl to enjoy the tales of the Disney Princesses? As a person who has worked with small children all of my life, I can say that I've had a good excuse as to why I've read countless numbers of fairytales but if I am honest I must admit that I enjoy the stories too.

The next Disney Princess movie will make it's appearance Thanksgiving weekend (24th). This digital 3D computer animated movie is titled TANGLED but the story will be an altered re-telling of the fairytale RAPUNZEL. Princess Rapunzel's character will be voiced by singer/actress Mandy Moore and the Soundtrack to the movie is scheduled to be released on November 16th. I am not sure at this time if songbird Mandy Moore will be singing any of the songs on the Soundtrack but I am hopeful that she will. The movie will feature music by Alan Menken.

My inside sources tell me that at the time of this posting, there isn't another Disney Princess movie in the works. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (2009) and TANGLED/RAPUNZEL (2010) may be it for awhile as far as Princesses go. AWWWW, and just when I was hoping for the PRINCESS AND THE PEA to be made. Anyway, the outlook for 2011 and beyond for future Disney theater releases may include: TRON (a remake of the 80's sci-fi movie), a not yet named WINNIE THE POOH movie, another PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN starring J. Depp but minus Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, CARS 2, KING OF THE ELVES and just maybe even a few more movies based on rides and attractions at the Disney theme parks such as THE JUNGLE CRUISE and THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON TREEHOUSE. The last two haven't been 100% confirmed to me so we will just have to wait and see.

Oh and by the way, if you would like to learn how to make an easy Princess ornament, you make look for the tutorial in my archives from last year. Just click the label "Disney" that is on the right side of this page and you will find the tutorial.

HAPPY BLOG-A-VERSARY

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the Hugs and Keepsakes blog. I really can't believe how quickly the time has gone by. When I started this blog, I really had no idea what I was doing....and I still don't. So I would like to thank those of you have been with me on this adventure no matter how rough the journey has been.

I can remember a wonderful teacher back in elementary school encouraging me and other students to have pen pals. She told us that the world was much bigger than the street that you live on. She wanted us to know that there were people out in the big world that may have cultural differences from you. You could learn great things from them and they from you. She also told us that in the most important ways, the world was small in the fact that we all share the most important commonalities. The biggest commonality is LOVE!

I see the internet and blogging as simply an advanced way of having pen pals. Since I've started this blog, I've had viewers visit my blog page from over 83 countries as well as my regular visitors from my own United States. My most frequent, return, International visitors are from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Phillipines, France, India, Spain, Germany, Italy, Mexico and the Netherlands. I am waving hello to all of you and sending you all big HUGS. I'm thrilled that you enjoy stopping by often. Although, I stopped having an open section for comments, I must say I have enjoyed chatting with some of you via email and I have also had the opportunity to become prayer partners with some of you. It has truly been such a pleasure.

On this 1 year Blog-a-versary, I wanted to share with you that I was nominated for a VERSATILE BLOG AWARD by the lovely Debbie over at blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com I would like to thank her for the nomination. Debbie has a wonderful blog and she is also one of my very first blog friends. Big hugs to you!

As a recipient of the Versatile Blog Award, I am suppposed to share 7 things about myself and then pass the award on to other bloggers. Because of the time restraints that I am facing today, I thought that I would do something a bit VERSATILE.......... so I will only be sharing 1 thing about myself and passing the award on to 1 other blogger.

The 1 thing that I am sharing about myself is that ever since the earthquake disaster in Haiti occured, I have had a desire to make and send some rag dolls to the children of Haiti to comfort them but I didn't know how to go about making that possible. Since then I have learned about a wonderful program that accomplishes this task by having volunteers sew dolls and send them in. I am currently in the process of sewing a few dolls to send in. There is even an easy free pattern for people like myself who are beginners at sewing. I learned about this from Sarah over at dollydonations.blogspot.com Sarah is the lovely lady that I will be passing the Versatile Blog Award on to. I would like to thank her for coming up with such an awe inspiring blog that is being used to reach out to touch the hearts of little children. Above I have posted a few dolly pictures from her blog.

Until next time......HAPPY BLOG-A-VERSARY!

AUTUMN INSPIRATIONS=FALL PORCHES, MANTLES & WREATHS

Well the cooler weather has made its way to my town and has given me enough inspiration to finally dig up my FALL decorations. My Fall wreath is finally on the front door and it will stay there until Thanksgiving Day. I won't bother showing you pictures of my front porch because I still have photos posted in my blog archives from last October but here are some wonderful pictures for Autumn inspiration thay you may enjoy. Decorating for Fall doesn't have to be expensive either. It can be as simple as finding things in nature like a few twigs, branches or pinecones to display in a vase.

In my next post I will be telling you about a BLOG AWARD. Until next time....enjoy the feeling of FALL.