Homemade FE Gifts Photo Thread

[scamper45]

After just getting back from our Double Dip Delight cruise, I have to say I was overjoyed with the homemade Fish Extender gifts. All FE gifts are greatly appreciated, and the experience is so much fun, yet the homemade ones are the sauce inside the Palo chocolate soufflé, so to speak!

We received so many wonderful homemade (HM) gifts that I thought we should showcase them to share with others in our DIS family! If my fellow DISers who left me some of these special HM gifts don't post pics of their gift, I certainly will! For now, I'll just post a couple of the gifts that I made for some of my FE recipients.

Double Dip Delight Highlights: This is a basic pen style highlighter wrapped in an Avery address label that went through my printer to put the words on it in the Walt font. I then rubber stamped Mickey's body parts in the colors of black, red, and yellow onto the label (there are heads, shoes, and pants all around the barrel). After applying the label to the highlighter and placing super adhesive tape over it, I rolled it in clear micro beads. More detailed instructions are found in Post #189. (Note that "Double Dip Delight" is the coined name of our DISer cruise.)​

Pirate Post-It Cover: Using pirate themed stamps and a roller stamp from Stampin' Up!, I rubber stamped the images onto cardstock. The images on the black cardstock paper were applied with white craft ink. The treasure chest was outlined with a marker and colored in with chalk. An antiqued brass brad is used as the chest's lock, which also went through the red mat that was glued to the cover. A small piece of sticky-backed Velco closes the flap. A pad of Post-Its was then glued to the black cardstock. Once the pad of Post-Its is gone, you can refill it!​

Buckeye Keychain: Using drilled buckeye nuts and pony beads made this a quick regional craft that was given to most of the cabins on my list that had only adults. To accompany this, everyone received a Buckeye post-card that has the recipe for buckeye candy (YUM!).​

Please share your HM FE gift that you gave or received with the rest of us!

The buckeye key chain is the best. Go Bucks!

 

[dolphingirl47]

Hmmm. I found this online from the American Security Border

Soil, Sand, Minerals, and Shells
Soil-borne organisms threaten both plants and animals. If you visited a farm or ranch in a foreign country, agricultural specialists may have to examine and disinfect your shoes or clothing. Vehicles must also be cleaned of any soil. No soil or earth of any kind is allowed into the United States without a permit issued in advance by USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine Permit Unit. Pure sand, such as a small container of decorative beach sand, is usually allowed.

I think the keywords here are "pure" and "decorative". The reason why I posted this is that people we know wanted a sand ceremony for their DCL wedding. Now this is not even proper sand as such, but coloured quartz sand similar to what you can get in a craft store. DCL was nearly having kittens at first. It was only once they proved that this was bought from a US supplier and was sterilized that they would even entertain this. They were then fine with this, but recommended that the original packaging was kept for re-entry into the USA.

The little bottles that you can often can buy as souvenirs contain sterilized sand and treated sea shells and I am sure it is that kind of thing that is covered by the above paragraph, especially as those bottles tend to be sealed as well.

My intention was not to spoil anybody's fun. Indeed, I love the idea. I just wanted to warn that this could lead to problems. If I was on your cruise, I would get some craft sand when I get home and display it with pride.

Corinna

 

[CRUIZEN MAMMA]

CruizenMamma, I love that tile! I use it as a trivet next to my coffee maker in my kitchen.

I'm so glad you like it- all the gifts we received were great- I love my white board and hang it on the fridge to remind me of important dates

 

[morgansmom2000]

Good thing we are not going to Castaway Cay!

I really don't think it matters whether you go to Castaway Cay or not. Taking sand from ANYWHERE should not be encouraged.

 

[DENISEES]

I take baggies of sand and shells from every beach vacation we have ever gone on from Mexico to Turks & Caicos and have never ever had a problem (prob. just jinxed myself)---suitcases tend to get heavy with all that sand so I have even put them in my carry on-- still never a problem..... I'm just Sayin!!!

 

[mmmears]

I'm so impressed with all the things I've seen here! Thanks for sharing!!!

Just one quick question -- is there a CD player in the room to listen to the CDs?

 

[OlivesMom]

Can't believe how much time I've looked at FE gift ideas! I haven't booked a cruise yet, but have planned out our homemade FE gifts and found some wondeful ideas online. Wonder if I need to check the Cruise Meet threads before I pick a date to be sure there will be an FE exchange!?!?

 

[Pengwend]

So this is not specifically for FEs, but I have been getting some great ideas from this thread for my wedding favours! I just bought a spindle of mini CDs from Amazon, and now I'm realizing I don't know if they burn the same way as normal CDs. Has anyone made mini CDs before? I have a Mac, so I would have to slide them into the CD burner... hoping it won't get stuck!

 

[croppincolburn]

Do not put minis in your Mac without an adapter. It can't read or write them. It is not pleasant.

 

[Rogue1230]

i'm cruising next month and thought i'd add mine to this thread

here's the bags made up:

if you're on the september 24th wonder cruise, DO NOT click on the links below!!
(i've intentionally left off the tags so it doesnt show the photos unless you click on them)

[url]http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/rr238/karenangelatanpearson/random%20stuff/P8260002.jpg[/url]
[url]http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/rr238/karenangelatanpearson/random%20stuff/P8260001.jpg[/url]

i'm not really the most creative person, so i was quite happy with the way these turned out![/QUOTE]

love it~~~

 

[scrapycruiser]

love it~~~

I love the "saving" cans !! Where did you get them ??

 

[mbhpch]

love it~~~

Those are great! Where did you get them made?

 

[pjpoohbear]

I would love to know where to get the blank cans, I have tried all kinds of google searches and I can't bring up the magic information to source them.

Pj

 

[mellers]

I would love to know where to get the blank cans, I have tried all kinds of google searches and I can't bring up the magic information to source them.

Pj

I don't know if these are the same ones, but are these what you mean?

http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/b...allpartial&sd=Design+Your+Own!+Coin+Banks#RL2

 

[pjpoohbear]

Ah, how I wish I lived in the USofA. You all have so many great websites to order from. Those would be workable and not to heavy to take with or for the FEers take home.

Pj

 

[cruisindisney]

I did a search and found this place:

http://www.marshallpapertube.com/coin-banks.html

 

[karentan]

I got th money tins from cheap souvenir type stores, I'm from the UK but actually bought these back from spain as they were cheaper over there. I printed the labels off on photo paper and then double sided taped them on to the cans. I was really happy with how they turned out, I'm not the most creative of people....

 

[scrapycruiser]

I got th money tins from cheap souvenir type stores, I'm from the UK but actually bought these back from spain as they were cheaper over there. I printed the labels off on photo paper and then double sided taped them on to the cans. I was really happy with how they turned out, I'm not the most creative of people....

THANKS !
and btw, saw you're headed for Singapore soon. We lived in Japan for 3 yrs and were lucky to go to Singapore !! Beautiful city ! Loved the bird park, zoo, went to Raffles Hotel for a singapore sling and much more. Have a wonderfultime !!

 

[Rogue1230]

I would love to know where to get the blank cans, I have tried all kinds of google searches and I can't bring up the magic information to source them.

Pj

I hope this helps re: coin banks

https://www.marshallpapertube.com/ProductCart/PC/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=34&idcategory=

 

[Wendy&Grumpy]

Subbing.