Homemade FE gifts - Part 2

[dolphingirl47]

Hi all! Always love the awesome ideas! I am hit or miss with the previous home-made thread, so I'm not sure if this has been done. I am sailing on the June 9th Fantasy Western Caribbean sailing, so if you are in my group, don't peek! Okay, peek if you want

These are what I made.

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They are towel clips, for the back of your deck or beach chair. They are large clips (about 5 inches long) and each family will get a pair. I wish I could have done 4 for each family, but there were about 30 rooms, and I am also doing necklaces for the women like on my last cruise.

So question: (without giving too much away)...matching or mix and match? I like matching myself, and I did one color up and one down so they looked fun. Then I thought people could say, oh, we are the orange ones. I am also including a card that explains what they are, and that they shouldn't be used to hog deck chairs, or I'm taking them back!

They are so cute. I think I would prefer the mix and match option.

Now tht my two latest cruises are over, I can post what I made. Bewteen the 2 cruises, I had about 50 cabins to deliver to. My original inspiration was the fact that Hawaii was going to be a 15 night cruise and I thoght maybe some poeple could use some games if they had down time in their rooms!

I hand pianted (not so well on some) mickey heads on the side of the dice with 1 dot, decorated the dice holder and then included some games along with balnk paper that could be played with the dice. I also made pens to match.

We absolutely loved ours.

Corinna

 

[dolphingirl47]

I promised that I would post photos of my Fish Extender gifts once I am back from my cruise. Here they are. Those are the gifts for people who were only doing one group:

For the girls:

For the boys:

For the men:

Corinna

 

[dolphingirl47]

Here are the gifts that I also gave to people doing multiple groups:

For everybody:

For the men:

For men and boys:

I also did Pirate bottle cap carabiners, but forgot to take photos of those.

For boys and girls:

For girls:

For women:

For women and girls:

Corinna

 

[dolphingirl47]

Those were for the two boys that were in all groups and were made with our cruise fabric by a seller on Etsy:

And those I just bought in the store for the kids doing all groups:

Corinna

 

[hardingk]

Corinna, that fabric is awesome!! How did they make it?!

 

[dolphingirl47]

Corinna, that fabric is awesome!! How did they make it?!

This was ordered from a company that makes custom Hawaiian shirts. We ordered a bunch of shirts in this fabric on our cruise meet thread and people also had the option to just order some fabric.

Corinna

 

[Dream_2011]

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[Keurigirl]

This was ordered from a company that makes custom Hawaiian shirts. We ordered a bunch of shirts in this fabric on our cruise meet thread and people also had the option to just order some fabric.

Corinna

What company???

 

[dolphingirl47]

What company???

Unfortunately I do not know. The ordering process was handled by somebody else on our cruise meet thread.

Corinna

 

[kdeans1010]

I really like that crayon keeper. As a grown up, I still color (when I'm stressed out my crayons are out with a coloring book.), so I've been looking at those crayon keepers as something simple to sew up for FEs.

 

[sewsweet]

Great ideas everyone! Too many to quote pictures!

I really need to get some of these down for future trips.

I have mine all done for our trip in June, but I don't want to post anything (like most) till I get back.

Can't wait!!!

 

[happytexasmom]

I love the stitch key chains

 

[cinda65]

These barrettes, etc., are gorgeous! Are the flowers clay?

 

[PixieMom712]

Now that we are back from our cruise, I will post the gifts I made (for adults - I ran out of creativity by the time I got to the kids gifts...they received princess/B&BW swag for the girls and pirate swag for the boys!).

I made the notepad holders from wood pieces I bought at A.C. Moore Crafts, painted them the same color as the DCL wrapping/tissue paper I had which was decoupaged onto the painted board, added a giant clip, and then added a Mickey head scrapbook piece (also from the craft store) to the clip. The post-it notes were ordered from Vistaprint (they have the ship name, date of cruise, and port calls on them). The post cards I gave everyone (adults and children) have a photo of Mickey that I took during my May 2008 cruise...I added a bit of wording to the bottom of the photo ("Hello from the Disney Magic"). On the back of the post cards I added the date of our cruise along with the port calls. Post cards were also ordered from Vistaprint. (I did not make the Florida Key Lime Coconut Patties! )

I squealed about the post it note pad - it is SO CUTE and is proudly displayed at home now. I had to save one postcard for my scrap book too. Your gifts were AWESOME and I know we all really appreciated your coordinating efforts!

 

[dolphingirl47]

These barrettes, etc., are gorgeous! Are the flowers clay?

They are Fimo.

Corinna

 

[Disneysince1982]

dolphingirl47,
I love all of the items that you made. They are gorgeous. What size swivel hooks did you use?
Thanks, Barbara

 

[dolphingirl47]

They are 22x10mm.

Corinna

 

[Disneysince1982]

Thanks for the size. I have been looking at swivel hooks on ebay (for fe gifts) and wasn't sure what size to get. Yours look just perfect.
Thanks again, Barbara

 

[GhostlyHitchhiker]

Dolphingirl47, those are some of the most beautiful gifts I've seen to date. I'm going to show all the clay/Fimo stuff to my daughter and she's going to be jealous.

Very nice job!

 

[wheelerkidz3]

for those of you who have done the coaster post it note holders....where did you buy the sticky notes from? we have alot of cabins in our exchange, and i'm thinking that i'd maybe like to attempt to make these...but not sure about the cheapest place to buy a lot of sticky notes!