Fish Extenders?

[Trying to Plan]

Cruising on the Dream in May 2011 so I know I am really forward planning here but......How and when do you find out how many people you are making / getting FE for? I have joined my official cruise thread but still haven't quite figured out all the inner workings of FE.

I would love to have something to keep my girls and I busy doing so reading and planning and dreaming about this trip doesn't become an obcession !! I think I may be too late though. Already planning the homemade tshirts and magnets I want to make.....

Anyway, back to FE, how do I know how many to do? Is there a rough 'guessimate' so you don't have to wait till last minute?

 

[jessica52877]

Cruising on the Dream in May 2011 so I know I am really forward planning here but......How and when do you find out how many people you are making / getting FE for? I have joined my official cruise thread but still haven't quite figured out all the inner workings of FE.

I would love to have something to keep my girls and I busy doing so reading and planning and dreaming about this trip doesn't become an obcession !! I think I may be too late though. Already planning the homemade tshirts and magnets I want to make.....

Anyway, back to FE, how do I know how many to do? Is there a rough 'guessimate' so you don't have to wait till last minute?

Once you get closer to the cruise you'll probably have more people join the thread and usually someone starts the FE group. I only booked about 6 weeks out and no one had started a FE group so I did. We ended up having 12 cabins total and quite a few were added in within 3 weeks or so until cruising. Some have large groups far ahead of time because there are just alot of people on the thread and booked.

 

[Luckymomoftwo]

I think we would like to participate .

We are a family of 4 cruising for our first time on May 23! We are so excited!

Liz, DH Brian, DS7 Tyler, DS5 Chance
Hailing from Knoxville, TN!

Cruising on the Dream in May 2011 so I know I am really forward planning here but......How and when do you find out how many people you are making / getting FE for? I have joined my official cruise thread but still haven't quite figured out all the inner workings of FE.

I would love to have something to keep my girls and I busy doing so reading and planning and dreaming about this trip doesn't become an obcession !! I think I may be too late though. Already planning the homemade tshirts and magnets I want to make.....

Anyway, back to FE, how do I know how many to do? Is there a rough 'guessimate' so you don't have to wait till last minute?

If you look at this forum: http://www.disboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=85 you can see if there is a thread for your cruise date and see if they are planning a fish extender exchange. There is normally someone who keeps a list of everyone participating....OR they keep the list updated in the first post of the thread.

 

[Dicecatt]

Here is mine...I made it for our upcoming Med cruise, and decided to be more "mature" and grown up since we are leaving the kids at home this trip!

 

[Dianatlol]

Were cruising the Wonder May 13th. Our group is tiny, no one is posting on the thread anymore. Sad. I will still set up my FE and if we find any we will tuck some goodies in there.

 

[croppincolburn]

Dicecatt - Fabulous!!!

Dianatol - Maybe try posting on the main page to see if there is someone who hasn't made it over to the meets board. Good luck!

 

[starchef]

We did this on our last cruise back in October, it was great to meet new people and share items for our home areas. We found out about this by looking at the Cruise Meets section for the date of our cruise. I guess we had about 15 rooms or so doing an exchange. It was so much fun that we are already working on the setting up for our June 2011 cruise on the Dream, double dip Castaway Cay.

 

[ZeroToHero]

Here is mine...I made it for our upcoming Med cruise, and decided to be more "mature" and grown up since we are leaving the kids at home this trip!

That's so cool! I love that you made the little shimmery things light up - are those LEDs or crystals?

 

[jeanigor]

That's so cool! I love that you made the little shimmery things light up - are those LEDs or crystals?

I think that was done to edit out the name on the Fish Extender.

 

[Dicecatt]

I think that was done to edit out the name on the Fish Extender.

Right

That would have been really cool though

 

[jeanigor]

Right

That would have been really cool though

Agreed. Wicked cool. I wonder how hard it would be to integrate a strand of battery operated LED lights....

 

[uncw89]

Right

That would have been really cool though

That's funny! I thought you had put lights on your FE!

 

[ZeroToHero]

I think that was done to edit out the name on the Fish Extender.

Ooooohhhhh.

...It's not cool anymore.

Just kidding! It's still very neat.

 

[mytripsandraces]

Thank you for posting this! I'm going to try to make one this weekend.

 

[K8T]

Thanks to these boards, I have almost finished my FE, only took a couple of hours, but I need help!

I have made it out of dark green felt and have put three pockets on, one red, one orange and one pink and used stick on letters for names. Now, initially, I just wanted to put black sillhouettes of characters on each pocket - Mickey, Simba or Tigger and Minnie. However, these are proving extremely difficult to cut out. So I though about putting iron on transfers of the same.

However, Disney iron ons (applique characters, patches (whatever they are called), seem to be hard to source in the UK, unless anyone knows a good supplier. I have ordered some square ones with the characters in them, on ebay, but really wanted the ''cut out' characters. Any ideas?

I did wonder if transfer paper would work, although I don't know how you use it or where to get it from! Do you just print out on a normal printer and then iron it on?

Any help or ideas would be gratefully received.

P.S I have stuck some paper stickers on from my dd sticker book and they look great, but obviously won't last too long, even if I glue them. Not sure where to go from here!

Many thanks

Kate

 

[LittleDisneyLovers]

Have you tried etsy? Alot of DISer's sell stuff on there, I buy alot from there, It is primarily USA sellers, but I live in Australia and they post here. There is a huge range of Disney stuff on there, do some searches, you'll be amazed at what you find!

 

[K8T]

Have you tried etsy? Alot of DISer's sell stuff on there, I buy alot from there, It is primarily USA sellers, but I live in Australia and they post here. There is a huge range of Disney stuff on there, do some searches, you'll be amazed at what you find!

Thank you for this.

I have had a lovely time looking through everything and have a couple of things I am going to buy.

Kate

 

[MickeyWatch]

Just ordered my FE from Gradysmommy on Ebay! So excited, will share when I receive it!

I ordered mine from the same seller today. I can't wait to receive it.

 

[ymchavez]

Subscribing!

 

[cheesekate2005]

Our family of four is taking its first cruise in Feb 2011 on the Dream! I have been trying to read up on the FE's. Is this something that I would just have for my children, or the four of us, and is it for kids aged 14 and 11? Thanks...I am going to sign up for one on my cruisemeets thread but I am just not sure who to sign up!