The Promise of Spring: Flower & Garden Festival 4.0 -- A Cam and Luke TR COMPLETED 8/27 - Page 62 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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What a great day with the purchases and glad you got to meet up with Larry Dotson. You did well with all of your purchases! Especially with the art and Tinkerbell! I had to back track looking at the bath photos of your home as they look like they could most certainly be from your room at the AK! Amazing job you've done and what especially caught my eye was the shower curtain!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Those prints are gorgeous and they fit perfectly in with your beautiful bathrooms!! You are so making want to redecorate!! I also love the Tink spin toy!! Lots of fun momentos!!
Those prints are gorgeous and they fit perfectly in with your beautiful bathrooms!! You are so making want to redecorate!! I also love the Tink spin toy!! Lots of fun momentos!!
Tara, you picked the perfect photo for your signature. Just wish Logan was smiling as I think he wasn't expecting to be photographed on this as he's so photogenic! Tell him in that in a few years he will tower over all in the photo as he's still a young boy!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Your bathroom is so pretty. The prints look really good in there.
My daughter has several Larry Dotson prints in her hallway. We had the pleasure of meeting him on our last trip.
I keep forgetting to tell you that the our zoo has a new baby giraffe. He doesn't have a name, yet but he's so cute.
Liz
Oh, I really like that Mickey frame! I've never tried the Minnie cookies. May need to get a box on our next visit. Maybe they sell them on the cruise? If so I could have them even sooner!
I really love the frames that you put your new prints in and they look perfect in your bathroom!!! It's so nice to see how you placed all your purchases throughout your lovely home Cam. You can tell how much you enjoy Disney through all the subtle touches. Thanks for sharing them.
You did an awesome job matching the Art work to the frames. They are beautiful. I do like all of your giraffes too. You really made some great purchases.
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Love the prints and the frames you picked out for them are perfect.
Thanks! We're pretty proud of our work on this bathroom.
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What a great day with the purchases and glad you got to meet up with Larry Dotson. You did well with all of your purchases! Especially with the art and Tinkerbell! I had to back track looking at the bath photos of your home as they look like they could most certainly be from your room at the AK! Amazing job you've done and what especially caught my eye was the shower curtain!
We've dubbed this bathroom, "The Safari" bathroom as we got a lot of our inspiration from AKL. I saw the shower curtain at a Dillard's when we were shopping with family about a year after Stefanie died, and that gave Luke and me the idea to redo this bathroom along an AKL theme.
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Those prints are gorgeous and they fit perfectly in with your beautiful bathrooms!! You are so making want to redecorate!! I also love the Tink spin toy!! Lots of fun momentos!!
Thanks! I've actually been amazed at how many different giraffe prints we've found. Quite a few have come from Hobby Lobby.
Love all your purchases! You really do know how to decorate a bathroom. I really love those prints!
Thanks! I credit hours of watching HGTV and loving the theming of AKL.
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We love the Larry Dotson artwork as well and he is such a lovely guy. I hadn't thought of checking his website, but I'll keep an eye on that now.
I hadn't thought to check to see if he had a website until we purchased a print by another Disney artist and he told us to check his website and gave us his business card with the address. When we got back home, I did a search for Larry Dotson and found that he had one, too. Here is a link to his site. From there click on Signing Events at the top to find when and where he will be at WDW. Right now his schedule is up through December, so I'm checking every few weeks to see when the fall schedule is up.
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Your bathroom is just gorgeous! It looks like every piece you have in there was made specifically for that room!
Thank you so much! We've had great luck finding pieces that go so well together with our safari theme.
Your prints and frames are gorgeous! They look wonderful in your home.
Thank you so much! We really like how the bathrooms have turned out. We still want to put in a different tile in the master bath, but the decor is already great.
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Your bathroom is so pretty. The prints look really good in there.
My daughter has several Larry Dotson prints in her hallway. We had the pleasure of meeting him on our last trip.
I keep forgetting to tell you that the our zoo has a new baby giraffe. He doesn't have a name, yet but he's so cute.
Liz
Larry Dotson is so sweet and very friendly, such a pleasure to meet. How cool to have a baby giraffe at your zoo. I'm a little jealous.
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Oh, I really like that Mickey frame! I've never tried the Minnie cookies. May need to get a box on our next visit. Maybe they sell them on the cruise? If so I could have them even sooner!
I have one of our AK PhotoPass photos in the frame and it now sits on the front cabinet in our entryway. Our last cruise was three years ago, but I'm thinking I bought some cookies on the cruise to bring home.
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Lots of fun momentos!!
Just wish Logan was smiling as I think he wasn't expecting to be photographed on this as he's so photogenic! 
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