"10/23/2010 Seven Days of Magic Sailing to the Saints Looking for Serenity Now!"

[sunshine1259]

Sunshine, do you have a pattern for FEs? I can't see buying all of those, either, but making them might be an option. I need step by step instructions, though. October 2010, are you here yet????

I will see if I can find the one that I just used as a guide. Of course, if I had followed the directions, I would not have had such a HUGE FE. I got off of this board, but I printed out. So, I have it around here somewhere.

 

[jennwdw]

Hi, Just booked tonight It will be me, DH, my 2 boys (10 and 8 when we cruise) daughter (3 when we cruise) and my parents. Obviously we booked two cabins.

 

[cntkg1]

Welcome Cindi, Jenn and Alisia! ​

I'm Nancy and will be cruising with DH Chuck. I'm looking forward to chatting with all of you before the cruise.

 

[sunshine1259]

Hi, Just booked tonight It will be me, DH, my 2 boys (10 and 8 when we cruise) daughter (3 when we cruise) and my parents. Obviously we booked two cabins.

Hi, Jenn. Welcome to you and your family.

 

[sunshine1259]

Sunshine, do you have a pattern for FEs? I can't see buying all of those, either, but making them might be an option. I need step by step instructions, though. October 2010, are you here yet????

Hi, Cindi. Here are the instructions that I took off this board earlier this year:

Home made using Iron on transfer paper that prints on our home ink jet printer.
You need 1/4 yard of fabric, iron interfacing, wide double fold bias tape, and a 3/8" dowel 8" long.

Pockets are 11" X 5 1/2"
Back is 32" X 8"


Cut out backing and pockets then iron on interfacing.
Sew bias tape on top of pocket
pleat once on each side and pin bottom of pocket so that it is 8" wide.
baste, then pin bias tape on bottom and sew on
Pin pockets on backing and sew bottom of pocket to backing
Pin and baste around entire outside of project.
Pin then sew bias tape around outside edge of whole fish extender
fold top over leaving room for you dowel at top and sew along the inside of bias tape down each side to secure.

I am not a professional! These are just my notes on how I made mine. Good luck!

Kudos to CQUICK for passing on the instructions to me! This is such a fun project!

I just basically used it to get an idea as to how to make them. Then, I did my own thing.

Have Fun!!!

 

[Cindi0511]

I wanna see how your's turned out. That size remark has visions of one flowing all the way down the hallway, up the stairs, through the restaurants, and down the grand lobby balcony.

Hmmm, now a cruiser could really fill up a fish extender of that size...

And welcome to Jenn and family! Glad to have you aboard!

 

[sunshine1259]

I wanna see how your's turned out. That size remark has visions of one flowing all the way down the hallway, up the stairs, through the restaurants, and down the grand lobby balcony.

Hmmm, now a cruiser could really fill up a fish extender of that size...

And welcome to Jenn and family! Glad to have you aboard!

Well, it's not QUITE that big, but we did have some nice size pockets. I don't think that I have a picture of it hanging from the FE on the ship. But I will take a picture of it and with you alls help, I will post it on the boards here.

It is too wide versus too long. However, all of the folks in cabins near ours used it as a way to find their way back to their cabins. Especially, this one couple with 3 little princesses in a cabin across the hall from us. They told the girls to just look for our FE to find their room. Being that it was bright Yellow, it made it very easy to spot.

 

[cntkg1]

Here's a picture of our FE.

We played DIStag on both of our cruises and will play again on the Oct 09 cruise. Much fun was had by all especially the little kids.

 

[sunshine1259]

Here's a picture of our FE.

We played DIStag on both of our cruises and will play again on the Oct 09 cruise. Much fun was had by all especially the little kids.

Hi, Nancy. I can't see your picture right now. I will probably have to wait until I get home and look at it on the home computer.

What is DIStag? Is it just for kids or what?

 

[cntkg1]

Hi, Nancy. I can't see your picture right now. I will probably have to wait until I get home and look at it on the home computer.

What is DIStag? Is it just for kids or what?

Not really just for kids. This is how ours worked:

Each DISer who is participating in the game received a spreadsheet and a magnet. On the spreadsheet we had all the participants and their cabin numbers listed. You started tagging the person listed directly underneath you on the list. You leave your gift in the FE (or behind the fish) and tag their door with the magnet. Now you wait until your own door gets tagged and gift is left behind. Each time you get tagged you take that magnet and a new gift and tag the second person under your name...etc...untill all the gifts are gone and you are tagging the person listed directly above you on the list now.

Example:

S Brenda cabin 1234
cntkg1 cabin 4321
JLDSMD cabin 5342
Walt & Di cabin 4624
etc

S Brenda takes her magnet and a gift and tags cntkg1's door. (me). Now she goes back to her cabin and waits until Walt and Di tag her door with a magnet and a gift. Once Walt and Di tag her, she takes the magnet that they left behind and a new gift and tags Jeff. You keep going until you reach the person who is directly above your name (In your case it would be Walt and Di because you're first). Get the picture?? Sounds complicated at first but it really is quite simple and tons of fun.

Now sometimes by the time you get back to your cabin you've already been tagged! Sometimes you wait until the next day to get tagged. We've had it where we were tagged 3 times by different DISers all at once. Our kids are grown but I understand some of our little DISers were all excited about the idea of a little gift waiting for them.

We tried to stick with smaller items but some folks got really extravegant.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=21624095&postcount=222

Here's a link to a post I did awhile ago that has a lot of our gifts pictured.

 

[Dyerneeds]

Not really just for kids. This is how ours worked:

Each DISer who is participating in the game received a spreadsheet and a magnet. On the spreadsheet we had all the participants and their cabin numbers listed. You started tagging the person listed directly underneath you on the list. You leave your gift in the FE (or behind the fish) and tag their door with the magnet. Now you wait until your own door gets tagged and gift is left behind. Each time you get tagged you take that magnet and a new gift and tag the second person under your name...etc...untill all the gifts are gone and you are tagging the person listed directly above you on the list now.

Example:

S Brenda cabin 1234
cntkg1 cabin 4321
JLDSMD cabin 5342
Walt & Di cabin 4624
etc

S Brenda takes her magnet and a gift and tags cntkg1's door. (me). Now she goes back to her cabin and waits until Walt and Di tag her door with a magnet and a gift. Once Walt and Di tag her, she takes the magnet that they left behind and a new gift and tags Jeff. You keep going until you reach the person who is directly above your name (In your case it would be Walt and Di because you're first). Get the picture?? Sounds complicated at first but it really is quite simple and tons of fun.

Now sometimes by the time you get back to your cabin you've already been tagged! Sometimes you wait until the next day to get tagged. We've had it where we were tagged 3 times by different DISers all at once. Our kids are grown but I understand some of our little DISers were all excited about the idea of a little gift waiting for them.

We tried to stick with smaller items but some folks got really extravegant.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=21624095&postcount=222

Here's a link to a post I did awhile ago that has a lot of our gifts pictured.

brenda gets a present. jeff gets a present. walt and di get a present.
mike and robin get zippo.

 

[cntkg1]

brenda gets a present. jeff gets a present. walt and di get a present.
mike and robin get zippo.

Mikey, Mikey...you get the biggest present of all....you got Robin.

 

[Dyerneeds]

Mikey, Mikey...you get the biggest present of all....you got Robin.

nice save.

 

[Cindi0511]

nice save.

Very, very good! lol

 

[JLDSMD]

brenda gets a present. jeff gets a present. walt and di get a present.
mike and robin get zippo.

Well, Robin can have a present.

 

[JLDSMD]

I see the pictures of the FE. I'll have to find one of ours. A really good friend got us ours.

 

[Dyerneeds]

heres a pic of robin and i for those of you who dont already know what we look like.

 

[dencord7]

Not really just for kids. This is how ours worked:

Each DISer who is participating in the game received a spreadsheet and a magnet. On the spreadsheet we had all the participants and their cabin numbers listed. You started tagging the person listed directly underneath you on the list. You leave your gift in the FE (or behind the fish) and tag their door with the magnet. Now you wait until your own door gets tagged and gift is left behind. Each time you get tagged you take that magnet and a new gift and tag the second person under your name...etc...untill all the gifts are gone and you are tagging the person listed directly above you on the list now.

Example:

S Brenda cabin 1234
cntkg1 cabin 4321
JLDSMD cabin 5342
Walt & Di cabin 4624
etc

S Brenda takes her magnet and a gift and tags cntkg1's door. (me). Now she goes back to her cabin and waits until Walt and Di tag her door with a magnet and a gift. Once Walt and Di tag her, she takes the magnet that they left behind and a new gift and tags Jeff. You keep going until you reach the person who is directly above your name (In your case it would be Walt and Di because you're first). Get the picture?? Sounds complicated at first but it really is quite simple and tons of fun.

Now sometimes by the time you get back to your cabin you've already been tagged! Sometimes you wait until the next day to get tagged. We've had it where we were tagged 3 times by different DISers all at once. Our kids are grown but I understand some of our little DISers were all excited about the idea of a little gift waiting for them.

We tried to stick with smaller items but some folks got really extravegant.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=21624095&postcount=222

Here's a link to a post I did awhile ago that has a lot of our gifts pictured.

I just looked at your gifts they were great I laugh at the Beaver droppings I liked that some had a personal touch now this gets me thinking how do you all feel about our Denver Broncos.

 

[sunshine1259]

Not really just for kids. This is how ours worked:

Each DISer who is participating in the game received a spreadsheet and a magnet. On the spreadsheet we had all the participants and their cabin numbers listed. You started tagging the person listed directly underneath you on the list. You leave your gift in the FE (or behind the fish) and tag their door with the magnet. Now you wait until your own door gets tagged and gift is left behind. Each time you get tagged you take that magnet and a new gift and tag the second person under your name...etc...untill all the gifts are gone and you are tagging the person listed directly above you on the list now.

Example:

S Brenda cabin 1234
cntkg1 cabin 4321
JLDSMD cabin 5342
Walt & Di cabin 4624
etc

S Brenda takes her magnet and a gift and tags cntkg1's door. (me). Now she goes back to her cabin and waits until Walt and Di tag her door with a magnet and a gift. Once Walt and Di tag her, she takes the magnet that they left behind and a new gift and tags Jeff. You keep going until you reach the person who is directly above your name (In your case it would be Walt and Di because you're first). Get the picture?? Sounds complicated at first but it really is quite simple and tons of fun.

Now sometimes by the time you get back to your cabin you've already been tagged! Sometimes you wait until the next day to get tagged. We've had it where we were tagged 3 times by different DISers all at once. Our kids are grown but I understand some of our little DISers were all excited about the idea of a little gift waiting for them.

We tried to stick with smaller items but some folks got really extravegant.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=21624095&postcount=222

Here's a link to a post I did awhile ago that has a lot of our gifts pictured.

Thanks, Nancy. That sounds like fun. Yes, I think that we will do that. I also saw the pictures of the gifts your received and you FE. All very nice. There must have been alot of DISers who participated on your trip.

brenda gets a present. jeff gets a present. walt and di get a present.
mike and robin get zippo.

That is what I needed. Thanks, Mike. I have been home for a couple of days with a double ear infection and sinus infection. Very painful.

This is the first time I have felt like doing anything other than lying in bed. So, that laugh was what the doctor ordered.

This is going to be a great group to cruise with. Does anyone know how to speed up time?

 

[JLDSMD]

This is going to be a great group to cruise with. Does anyone know how to speed up time?

Book another cruise between now and then.

10/24/09 is a GREAT group.