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Christmas at the Walt Disney Family Museum

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Over the weekend we made a banzai run up to San Francisco to check out the special holiday programming at the Walt Disney Family Museum. The combination of "Home for the Holidays at Carolwood," a new exhibit that includes a fantastic scale model of Walt Disney's Carolwood Drive home and miniature railway, and the museum's exclusive documentary, Christmas with Walt ...

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Touring Walt Disney’s Office: Part 3

Thursday, October 13, 2016

And now, the thrilling conclusion of our photo tour of Walt Disney's recently restored office suite at the Disney Studios lot! When you exit Walt's working office, you walk through what used to be a closet (or maybe the bathroom?) leading to a small room where he used to relax and get physical therapy for his ...

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Touring Walt Disney’s Office: Part 2

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

After we'd had our fill of photographing Walt Disney's formal office, our guide led us through the door to his working office. Seen through modern eyes, this office doesn't seem that much different than Walt's formal office. More clutter, slightly less streamlined furnishings... But for Walt Disney, there was a distinction. This is where he felt ...

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Touring Walt Disney’s Office: Part 1

Monday, September 26, 2016

A couple of months ago, my marriage to Patrick paid off in a big way when his cousin invited me on a private tour of Walt Disney's newly refurbished office suite on the Disney lot in Burbank. Although we'd seen some of its contents displayed at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios over the years, I was excited ...

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Our Enchanted Tiki Entryway’s in a Contest!

Friday, July 8, 2016

Our Enchanted Tiki Entryway in competing in Apartment Therapy's Energize Your Entryway contest, and we'd sure love your vote! If you already have an Apartment Therapy/Kitchn account, you can vote by clicking FAVORITE. Otherwise, you'd have to register with your name and an email address (maybe the one you use for junk mail?), and then click ...

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How to Create a Magnetic Gallery Wall

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

When you collect Disney art, your biggest problem is finding enough space to display it. Our last apartment was lousy with gallery walls, and we still didn't have space to display even half of my collection of Disneyland concept art. One of the solutions we came up with was a magnetic gallery wall in the hall ...

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