Flea Market Disney Treasures: Minnie and Mickey Banks

Posted on May 30, 2015 by greenlisa9989@yahoo.com

Welcome to the weekend! You know what that means – Time for another installment of Saturdays With Nick! As usual, I had no trouble spotting another post about a couple of Nick’s flea market finds to share with you today. These items from Nick and Barbie’s collection are too cute! I’m always envious of their amazing array of Disneyana! I suppose I should be glad, instead, that there are no flea markets where I live to tempt me with awesome Disney collectibles or I’m pretty sure I’d be perpetually broke. Don’t forget – you can follow Nick, Barbie, and friends an all their social medias:

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Flea Market Disney Treasures: Minnie and Mickey Banks

Weekends at the Columbus Flea Market are hit and miss. Some days, my wife and I walk the isles of stuff, and don’t find a thing. Other times, we pick up several items, like these banks. Let’s start off with this large, 8″ x 6″ (20.32 x 15.24 centimeters), ceramic Mickey bank.

I picked it up for $5.

You can make out the simple Copyright Disney under the price tag. Originally priced at $18!

I picked up these terrific Mickey and Minnie banks for $10.

Made of rubber, they measure 6″ (15.24 centimeter’s) tall. At their bases they are marked Walt Disney Productions, aging them to pre-early 80s.

Made in Korea.

No markings on the bottom. I’d love to know where they were originally purchased.

As a bonus feature, which I didn’t even notice when I bought these, they each have one articulated arm! Minnie’s raises up to her mouth. You can almost hear her giggle!

You can hear Mickey saying “Thanks for stopping by the Disney Musings Blog, hope to see you again real soon!”

Disney CD Set: The Music Behind the Magic

Posted on May 23, 2015 by greenlisa9989@yahoo.com

This week’s Saturdays With Nick takes us once more to an item in Nick’s amazingly fantastic collection of all things Disney. How I would love to get my eyes (and ears) on this in person!

Disney CD Set: The Music Behind the Magic

by: Nick

Released in 1994 by Walt Disney Records, “The Music Behind the Magic: The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice” is a four CD set highlighting the creative evolution behind the music of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
The set includes demos, tape recordings, final recordings, and unreleased master recordings of some of the most beloved music in Disney history.

The book and CD case are both cloth bound.

The word genius gets tossed around waaaay too often these days when it comes to music.
If you want to hear musical genius unfold before your ears, one needs only to listen to these CDs.

The first 2 discs show how 2 men, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, in my humble and honest opinion, saved the Walt Disney Company. The impression I get is The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast were written around the lyrics to these songs.
Really.
The third disc shows how amazingly fortuitous it was that they found Tim Rice to help complete the music for Aladdin after Howard Ashman’s untimely passing. Rice’s lyrics meld seamlessly in with Ashman’s.
Some of my favorite material from this set is hearing Ashman and Menken’s Little Mermaid Demos. It’s just amazing to hear Ashman do different character voices. The standout for me being his Ursula.
This set also comes with a wonderful book that looks at this creative period in the rejuvenation of Walt Disney’s animation department.

Track Listing, on Amazon.

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Disney Around the House

Posted on May 21, 2015 by greenlisa9989@yahoo.com

If you’ve been visiting here a while, you might remember when I talked about adding a little Disney to your day. Being the Disney fans that we are, we do tend to accumulate a few Disney collectibles here and there. I know guests to our home (who know us at all) probably expect to see a lot more Disney than there actually is…Don’t get me wrong! It’s pretty much everywhere, but it’s not as prevalent (or overt) as one might expect. You mostly have to be looking to see it all – but love each and every item we do! And, in the future, there will be more…of course, there will be more.

Disney Around the House

If you’re going to live in an empty Disney nest, I recommend you surround yourself with at least a few special objects, strategically placed, to bring you peaceful Disney happiness during those times when the chicks who have flown the nest are in low-maintenance mode. These are the times you can most enjoy a carefully crafted home environment sans drama (while constantly checking the days on your Disney vacation count-down app). I’ve been experiencing just such an interlude recently and have been thinking about adding a few more pixie-dusted touches here and there. First let’s talk about what we’ve already got & maybe you can help me decide which of our new Disney prints I should have framed next.

Come in through the front door and you’ll notice the Mary Poppins-inspired print Joseph gave Raymond for Christmas. No pics of the living room or dining room which are both Disney-décor free (for now), but in the kitchen – which is certainly the heart of our home – you’ll notice the most Disney love.

The Remy Print we, in a crazy moment of Disney happiness, purchased on a Disney cruise a few years back is near our kitchen table. Of course we have Disney dishes – including (not pictured) salad plates in both white and red. We have some Mickey dish towels and a spoon holder, a Haunted Mansion bottle stopper, and, of course, a selection of Disney coffee mugs and juice glasses. The Disney cookie jar currently stores packets of hot cocoa mix. Mickey is always around, ready to lend a hand!

The Pirates picture Megan gave me for Christmas is in our upstairs TV room. In our library is our curio of all small Disney collectibles. And we even have a Disney junk-drawer for storing some of our pins and new Christmas ornaments (wrapped in tissue paper) that haven’t been added formally to the Disney holiday collection.

Raymond and I picked up a couple-few (that’s the technical term here in the South for two to six items) more prints that we haven’t yet framed. Currently we’re in pre-vacation penny-pinching mode, but when we get back, I want to have one or two of these framed & located in their as-yet-undecided places of honor. We have two kitchen prints (from Food and Wine Festival shopping) featuring Goofy and Donald. A new Mickey picture. And Ursula who will look absolutely fantastic in our upstairs bathroom. Which one(s) should we start with?

Do you decorate Disney-style? What are your favorite pieces?

Ludwig Von Drake! (Walt Disney World Classics Collection)

Posted on April 25, 2015 by greenlisa9989@yahoo.com

Once more, Saturdays With Nick is all about an amazing Disney collectible. Ludwig Von Drake is a wonderful, underappreciated character and I, for one, adore this particular piece from Nick’s fantastic collection of Disneyana. What do you think about the adorable Mr. Von Drake?

Ludwig Von Drake! (Walt Disney World Classics Collection)

Imagine you’re in school, or you’re back in school, and you go to your geography class for the first time, and standing at the head of the class is a duck. That is a pretty wild imagination you have! But all things are possible in Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color!