Maybe you don't have royal blood running through your veins. As kids we all hoped we were some lost child of a King, Prince, Duke or other royal noble. Take the cottage tale Cinderella, a daughter of a noble family, brought low to the mere housemaid in her own home. We all hoped the someone someday would whisk us away to a Royal Ball. At that Ball, we were finally noticed for our sure grace and regalness. Huge Royal Balls where everyone arrives in a glamorous coach with stately coachmen. Cinderella's Fairy Godmother changed a garden variety pumpkin into her coach that carried to the Ball and changed her life. The Cinderella Coach cookie jar displays the elegant magical transformation of a mere squash to glorious coach meant for a Princess.
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| Get those glass slippers on and go! |
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| Where is the Footman? |
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| Center of our lives and the Magic Kingdom. |
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| The view from Fantasyland. |
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| Let's storm the castle walls and rescue a princess. |
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| No matter what side you look at, it's still home of a Princess. |
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| The Tinker Belle's view |
Pumpkins riped to a bright orange in a household garden scream one thing, fall. As the days grow shorter and leaves shed their life giving chlorophyll revealing flamboyant colors whose only function is to provide beauty to us. The air chills to provides that proverbial "frost on the pumpkin." Yes, fall whose days are brightened by leaves and a special first holiday of giving in our family, Halloween. How can you not have a Disney Halloween cookie jar. Disney characters dressing up and popping out all over. Mickey in his Fantasia Wizard Mickey attire. A Dalmatian dressed as a lion king, and our favorite pixie Tinker Bell riding a broom as a witch. When the Moon is new, I told my kids that it was the hidden Cheshire Cat.
Halloween. over the years, has become a large holiday but not as big as that later winter holiday Christmas. However, Halloween characters wanted to have a larger involvement in Christmas. That was especially true for Jack Skellington. In Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack's heart felt desires to bring the World something other than scaring. He involves all the other characters in Halloween Town to create a Halloween- Christmas hybrid.
To accomplish this holiday Jack enlists Lock, Stock, and Barrel to kidnap "Sandy Claws." The three greatest trick or treaters go from Halloween Town to Christmas Town to bag the old boy in the bright red suit. But instead of taking Santa Claus back to Jack, they take him to the Boogie Man, Oogie Boogie, in a walking bathtub.
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| Grab a cookie if you dare! |
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| From pixie to friendly witch, Tink can do it all. |
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| Jack and Sally, Halloween love. |
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| Zero and shinny nose so bright. |
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| Put on a happy face Mr. Mayor, Jack's back! |
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| World's most famous trick or treaters. |
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| Where have they hidden Santa? |
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| There is Sandy Claws, as he is called. |
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| "Deck them Halls" |
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| "Ring them Bells" |
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| A struggle to keep the cat from the tree. |
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| Maybe a flying elephant to pull the sleigh? |
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| It's all under wraps, the best place to hide the cookies. |
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How do those ears fit with all the cookies? |
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| I think that's Mickey? |
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| Yeah there he is! |
Get out the ladder and that ball of lights that spent the entire last year entwining itself into a Gordian Knot, and climb up and hang the lights on the house. Our family loves to display an outdoor illumination spectacular. Also we love to climb in the car grab a Starbucks coffee or hot chocolate and cruise the streets of town at night enjoy the displays of other celebrants. Mickey's house also needs decorating.
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| "Karen in the Gifts" |
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| Late for the party, hurry up Goofy. |
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| "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" |
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| Why does he think the chimney will get him in? |
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| A elegant Disney cookie jar. |
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| A Christmas Message. |
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| Great filled with Fattigmann Bakkels! |
To all of you from all of us Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Peace to the World.
