Outfit For Day 1 In Disneyland; Angel-Secret Frozen Fever Dress

I had ordered some dresses from Angel-Secret for our Disneyland vacation, though I wasn't sure how long the shipping is going to take. I must have a fairy godmother because the dresses came just couple of days before we left! It was my first order from Angel-Secret, and I have been really happy.

For our first day in Disneyland I chose this Frozen Fever Elsa inspired dress. I love it! Colour is so beautiful, and the embroidery is really detailed. The lace parts seem quite delicate, so I need to treasure it. This is totally a princess styled dress, still without being a costume.

In the eye make-up I used brown and grey tones with sharp black liner. Blush and lipstick are blueberry-pink coloured. I let my hair be straight and loose.

I chose these silver and glass jewellery to match my shoes.

I know this is Elsa inspired dress but I still couldn't resist to do some Cinderella poses! :'D

And finally some Prince style too! He chose blue colours, to match my outfit. Hat always makes a final touch for the look. :)

These were the outfits made for Disneyland adventures!

Have Courage And Be Kind,

-Tuulikki

Disneyland Adventure, Part 1

After we got back from our adventure, I have been quite busy with everyday life; now we have really started to plan our new homes renovation, I have my customers at the salon, and at the theater we have premiere of the musical Desiree (So wonderful princess style dresses, decorations, make-up and hair!), so we have rehearsed that a lot. With all that I find myself, well, not really planning but thinking about our wedding. But I promise, this is not turning into a wedding blog, at least not yet. 

These wedding boutiques were just next to our hotel. We went shopping there just for fun when we arrived, and I was watching all the lovely dresses thinking; "If I ever get married maybe I should buy the dress here." Little did I know..:)

Day by day our Disneyland holiday starts to feel like a distant dream that fills me with warm feeling when I think of it, but it's getting harder and harder to believe it was real. Now that I started to write about our holiday and went through the pictures we took, I got emotional. I'm enjoying our everyday life, there's so many nice things happening and I'm exited about new challenges at work, but still... After spending six lovely lovely wonderful full of love -happiest days of my life in Disneyland, reality did hit me quite hard. It was like we were living in a Disney film, it was our reality for a little while. Reality, where I think I belong in my heart.  

At this point everything was still ahead, in the next morning we would go to Disneyland. And that creme brulee.. These are the kind of moments you can appreciate better afterwards. Oh that lucky me at the past! 

 I'm so happy that I have pictures of our time in Disneyland, so that I can proof to myself that it was real. And now that I have had a super doze of Disney, I know I can make it through reality again, and find that Disney magic in everyday life too, no matter what comes ahead :)

But now I will sink in to my memories;

Our First day in Disneyland 

In the morning of our first day in Disneyland we were of course really exited, but also a bit lost with "Where's the metro station?" "Which metro we need to take to get to the train that goes to Disneyland?" "How long is it going to take?" so we ended up being late for an hour, just like the last time, and there was a huge mass of people at the gates before us. 

 I was really been waiting to see a princess, and we knew from last time, that the princess meeting appointments are really popular, so the tickets to Princess Pavilion go really fast. Luckily we knew where the place is from last time, so when we got through the gates, we immediately started to run. We knew the changes to get the appointment were very little, but we had to try. It was quite a hot day, and the distance between the gates and the Princess Pavilion is long, so at some point I said to my Prince that I couldn't run anymore, but he cheered me on and we run, and when we got to the queue i was really out of breath. 

The queue was suspiciously short and didn't proceed, so things didn't look so good. Apparently they had already gave away the tickets, and few hopeful people had stayed in case the staff would still find some free appointments. So we stayed in the line for couple of minutes and one woman in the queue in front of us left. Right after that a staff member came with few tickets, and I couldn't believe my ears when he said that our ticket was the last one. I did scream!! Sorry to those behind us in the queue. I just felt so happy and lucky.

My expression says it all!

After all that running and panicking, we finally got the ticket and realized that now we really are in Disneyland. We decided to take a little time to read the maps and to plan what we were going to do next. 

Had to put some powder after all that running..

So many things to do!

We knew that we are going to spend several days in Disneyland, so we had ended up buying annual passes at the gates. It was really cheaper that way, and with the pass we could enter the park two hours before the normal opening time and get some discounts at the shops and restaurants. So it was a good deal for us. Also it feels quite nice to be an annual pass holder, even thought we can't visit Disneyland so often :) 

One thing that was left to do, was to go to passport info like the staff member told us when we bought the passes, so we could give some more information and to get the final passes. So that's what we did, even though it turned out to be a bit difficult because we filled our information with a machine, where every instructions were in french. Maybe it's that usually french people buy annual passes.. But there was really nice staff to help us, so we managed. We also needed to take pictures for our passes, luckily I had added powder before we came!

Lucky to be "Passeport Annuel" holder! :)

After we got the passes we just wondered around and took some pictures in front of the castle. I was a bit overwhelmed, that there were quite a few kids and parents who wanted to take pictures with me! One mom even asked me which princess I am, and I was like "I'm sorry I'm not a princess!" Of course I should have said that every girl is a princess and I'm princess Tuulikki. But I was just too overwhelmed that she thought I worked in Disneyland :D It was fun to take pictures and really admiring that someone thinks I'm a Disney princess, but a bit unexpected because I was not wearing any costume, just my regular style.  

 

After taking pictures we started to be quite hungry, so we went to Plaza Gardens restaurant. It was buffet style, so it was quick to get the food, and it was really good. And so many options!

This is the face of a happy girl in Disneyland who is about to get some food.

Mm.. heavenly.

After we had finished our desserts, it was almost time for Frozen royal welcome parade, so we headed for main street to get good places.

So many people waiting for Anna and Elsa :)

The parade was great!  Anna and Elsa were also the first princesses (or princess and queen) that we saw in Disneyland this time. The music and those horses were so wonderful! <3 Last song that played was Let it go, and I just had to pretend I was doing some snow magic!

So many people :)

Next we decided, that it is time to test some rides. First we went to Big Thunder Mountain, that must be one of the best roller coasters. It's not so fast as some, but it is made so beautifully and the ride is really fun.

Near to the roller coaster was the Phantom Manor, which is also one of my favorites. It's not really a roller coaster, but a slow ride through all kinds of horrors. It's quite scary, I'm sure that as a child I would have been terrified! Luckily my Prince was there to protect me.

The boat tour was closed for some reason, so next we went shopping...

Then it was already time to go to our princess meeting! Good thing I bought this autograph book...

We saw Aurora and how lovely she was! Just like in the movie. She admired my dress and said that her dress turns blue sometimes too.

And how lovely autograph!

After the visit in the Princess Pavilion, we noticed that the Frozen parade was about to start again! So we saw Anna and Elsa for the second time :)

Then we were just hanging and waiting for the fireworks show to start.

How lovely Auroras castle looks after sunset.. :)

We got good places at the fireworks show, and it was just as wonderful as I remembered. There was also a new part in the show from Frozen that made it even more beautiful. After the show we stayed for a little while, we didn't want to leave just yet!

What a lovely sight this is, watching the gates of Disneyland at night when you know you will come back the next day.

We had such a lovely day, but then it was time to leave and go to the hotel to rest. And next morning we would come back with Annual passes two hours before the normal opening time! 7 am the usual morning line up...

Have Courage And Be Kind,

-Tuulikki

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream

We just got back from Disneyland last night, and I have so much to tell and to show to you, but there is one thing that happened that is above anything else, and I cant wait to tell you. I got engaged with my Prince! 

Huge thanks to the lovely family who were smart enough to realize what was happening and kind enough to take pictures and send those to us so we can have those as a memory of our precious moment.

Engagement was something I had been dreaming about, but it truly was a total surprise. We had been celebrating our first anniversary that day: we saw our favorite princess Belle and went to dinner at the princess restaurant Auberge de Cendrillon, (more about that later!:) and we were planning to go to the Sleeping Beautys castle to take pictures in front of the stained glass window, like we did exactly one year ago, and then go waiting for fireworks show. When we were finished at the restaurant, it was already quite late, so I was a bit nervous that we will loose good places at the fireworks show, and said to my my Prince that maybe we should just go right away to reserve places and take the pictures on a next day. But my prince insisted that we go, and I'm so happy he did. 

When we got to the stained glass window I sat on the same place where I was a year ago, and asked my Prince to come next to me so we can have the same kind of picture, but he just looked at me, and got down on his knee, and right on that moment I started to cry. 

 

That was a moment I will never forget, and I didn't have to think what my answer would be, because I know that this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. 

 

After spending that day in Disneyland, meeting Belle and eating in a lovely restaurant I thought I couldn't be happier, but I was wrong. Even though I was crying, when he put the ring to my finger, that was the happiest moment of my life. 

Posing with the rings on the next day :)

Later we went to a hot air balloon at Disney Village where we took this photo. More about it later too!

 

We got great places for watching the fireworks show, and it was amazing. It is hard to describe the feeling I had, being next to my prince, watching Auroras castle with amazing lights and fireforks and thinking that just moments ago we got engaged there. Then again, maybe it's not so hard.

That feeling is love.

 

Have Courage And Be Kind,

-Tuulikki

My first time in Disneyland

I had always dreamed, that one day I could walk through the gates of Disneyland, to see the castle, be among people who, like me, love Disney and even meet a princess... And last summer my dream finally came true!

 

It was the summer when I met my Prince. Trip to Disneyland Paris was our first holiday together, and after a day in Disneyland we knew that we are really going to be a couple. And to celebrate, we decided to spend another day in Disneyland! No need to say, I felt I was in a whole new world.

On our way to Disneyland on a first day I was actually quite terrified. I Had been dreaming about it for so long. What if it's not everything I dreamed it would be? When we finally entered the park, I was a little shocked. Everything was so wonderful. I didn't know where to go, what to do, even where to look. So I just screamed and walked a circle for a while.

 When I got a grip on "reality" again, I saw the castle in the end of the promenade, and I just wanted to run to it. But I didn't (that day), because there was so much to see even before that. Also I was convinced that we had enough time to see and to do everything we wanted. Of course that was not the truth. Even though I am a dreamer, I could not have dreamed how extensive the park would be! Truth is, one day is really not enough. On our first day we didn't even get to see any princesses because all the meetings were booked by the time we realized it. We didn't even use any fast passes, we only went to couple of rides and just walked around. And it was still great, but the second day was perfect.

On a second day we had a plan to go make the princess meeting reservation first thing in the morning, but on our way to Disneyland our train broke and we end up being there about an hour after the opening. After we got through the gates, we just run through the promenade, passed the castle and got to the line for meeting reservations. And we got the meeting! It must have been one of the last meetings because it was so late in the afternoon. 

Waiting to meet a princess..

We met Cinderella and Rapunzel! I was so happy. I asked Rapunzel if she was at Elsa's coronation party, because I think I saw her there. She said she was, with Eugine! :)

At the end of both days there was, of course, this amazing show with fireworks, music, and lights that is really hard to describe. I can only say, that it was perfect.

So why am I writing about this now? Because it's been a year since our trip, and now were at the airport again! And this time we are going to be in Disneyland for many days! I also made a reservation for us in a Cinderella restaurant! Oh I'm so exited! So there is really going to be some Disneyland-princess-explotions in the blog really soon! :)

What a beautiful sunrise at the Helsinki airport..

Have Courage And Be Kind,

-Tuulikki