Homemade FE Gifts Photo Thread

[MemphisMickey]

I will be on the May 8,2011 Dream cruise. Once my sister TNGoofy gets her computer fixed she will be signing us up.
All of the homemade gifts are great. I hope my gift turns out. I have already started working on them as people sign up - don't want to get caught making so many as the cruise gets closer.

Karen

 

[BettyBeBop]

Such an amazing thread!! I just spent an entire weekend reading every single post! Looking forward to my first FE next October on the Dream!! You al have given me some wonderful ideas to build on!! You are all so creative and talented! Thank you!

 

[ameliaforte]

Sorry, ameliaforte, I am, from the May 8, 2011 cruise. Now you know (and surely recognize me).

And this is why I'm not posting mines... I thought you would be lurking on this site

But, I can promise not to look if you ask to. Actually, I'm very good at not wanting to know my gifts in advance, my family doesn't understand this one, it drives them crazy, but "it's their problem, not mine!" So you can be safe with your postings.

Beaucoup de poussière de fée

well hello there. i didnt even know this site existed. my husband was working saturday and i was just "lurking" on the dis board sites and found it. Couldn't stop reading it...great ideas, but looking for something other than a key chain for the men. i'm with you on not wanting to look; i like being surprised. my daughter is the worse. i always had to hide away everything from her because she peeked at everything. she actually went all over the house looking for things at her bd and christmas. have you seen the list i posted of participants, so far?

 

[ameliaforte]

I will be on the May 8,2011 Dream cruise. Once my sister TNGoofy gets her computer fixed she will be signing us up.
All of the homemade gifts are great. I hope my gift turns out. I have already started working on them as people sign up - don't want to get caught making so many as the cruise gets closer.

Karen

this is getting exciting! looking forward to signing you guys up for FE

 

[Clochette nordique]

well hello there. i didnt even know this site existed. (...) have you seen the list i posted of participants, so far?

Actually, I did and am happy with that (still somewhat small) group, cause even though I gather stuff since last October (2009), I would prefer to give more to less people than less to more people. We travel by plane, so space is limited. But I've been actively working on our FEs (I'm making a part of them even though I never, ever thought I could do some crafts myself) for few months now. I'll just say I work with melting (or fusing) beads cause DD can do it too and it helps practice fine motor skills for her Cerebral Palsy. I'm discovering that I have a lot more patience with my hands that I would ever have imagined. What would a mother do for her DD......

But what surprised me from the list is that there is a 10 y.o. 2 doors down and an another one 10 y.o., 4 doors down, on the same side of the same hallway. What a nice surprise... and guess what, it's going to be very easy to deliver FEs in our corner of the ship!

So, "poussière de fée" till May,
Cilvy

 

[mrp4352]

Hi all!

My family has been counting down to our upcoming cruise by having a party every 100 days (yes, I know, we're weird, but the parties have been great fun!). For our next party (200 days to go!), I made a DCL Memory game! I found lots of fun pictures and clipart, then dropped them into a template I made in PowerPoint and printed them out on card stock. I also made pages of the same picture and printed them on card stock too (to be the back of the card). After cutting all the cards out and gluing them together, we laminated them so they will stay put together.

It was a fun, fairly easy project and now we have another way to pass the time before the cruise. Then I started thinking and decided it could easily be adapted as a FE gift for a family with young ones (3-6).

Michelle

 

[SmallWorld71]

Hi all!

My family has been counting down to our upcoming cruise by having a party every 100 days (yes, I know, we're weird, but the parties have been great fun!). For our next party (200 days to go!), I made a DCL Memory game! I found lots of fun pictures and clipart, then dropped them into a template I made in PowerPoint and printed them out on card stock. I also made pages of the same picture and printed them on card stock too (to be the back of the card). After cutting all the cards out and gluing them together, we laminated them so they will stay put together.

It was a fun, fairly easy project and now we have another way to pass the time before the cruise. Then I started thinking and decided it could easily be adapted as a FE gift for a family with young ones (3-6).

Michelle

I think that would make a great FE!

 

[dolphingirl47]

Hi all!

My family has been counting down to our upcoming cruise by having a party every 100 days (yes, I know, we're weird, but the parties have been great fun!). For our next party (200 days to go!), I made a DCL Memory game! I found lots of fun pictures and clipart, then dropped them into a template I made in PowerPoint and printed them out on card stock. I also made pages of the same picture and printed them on card stock too (to be the back of the card). After cutting all the cards out and gluing them together, we laminated them so they will stay put together.

It was a fun, fairly easy project and now we have another way to pass the time before the cruise. Then I started thinking and decided it could easily be adapted as a FE gift for a family with young ones (3-6).

Michelle

That is a fantastic idea.

Corinna

 

[ameliaforte]

Actually, I did and am happy with that (still somewhat small) group, cause even though I gather stuff since last October (2009), I would prefer to give more to less people than less to more people. We travel by plane, so space is limited. But I've been actively working on our FEs (I'm making a part of them even though I never, ever thought I could do some crafts myself) for few months now. I'll just say I work with melting (or fusing) beads cause DD can do it too and it helps practice fine motor skills for her Cerebral Palsy. I'm discovering that I have a lot more patience with my hands that I would ever have imagined. What would a mother do for her DD......

But what surprised me from the list is that there is a 10 y.o. 2 doors down and an another one 10 y.o., 4 doors down, on the same side of the same hallway. What a nice surprise... and guess what, it's going to be very easy to deliver FEs in our corner of the ship!

So, "poussière de fée" till May,
Cilvy

i'm really happy you are enjoying doing crafts with Audreanne. That time spent will be a wonderful memory for both of you in addition for therapy...physical for her and emotional for you! I still don't know what to do for the men. Lucky you to have cabins close by. I am scheduled GTY so don't have a room yet...its awful not knowing, but who knows, maybe something good may happen. Our group doesnt look too big as of yet. If it does get out of control, i am going to suggest to the group if they want to split it in half because i can't see spending so much time delivering gifts that its not fun. Time will tell. I'm
leaving sat to go to NB to see Logan. Dread the drive, but the result is well worth it.

 

[ameliaforte]

That is a fantastic idea.

Corinna

i think it is great too...the only problem is I want it NOW!!

 

[mjaclyn]

I LOVE this thread!! We are going on our first Disney Cruise in May 2011 and I'm so excited to make FE gifts! I still don't know what to do yet, but all these great ideas are helping SO much!! Thanks everybody!!

 

[tink70]

not sure if someone did this, as I only read a few pages of this thread, but I am going on a cruise soon and doing the FH gifts for the first time.

If you are on the 3 day wonder cruise December 2nd, dont read below!!!




I made magnetic photo holders for your fridge or whatever.


I love photoshop, so I took a photo of Jack Sparrow, added a black border, then "Disney Cruise Decemeber 2010" in disney type. THen I printed them out at our local pharmacy, cut out the middle (for their photo) and put them in the acrylic frames. I also put a note inside saying happy cruising from me.

I also made one with a photo of the promenade on the ship and mickey, with the same wording.

Then I am giving each family a ziplock baggie for their "cooler" for ice to keep their beverages cool. I folded the baggie and put a red polka dot bow on them.

The whole project cost me about $40. for about 30 people. (I think)

Oh- and the best one was I found tiny snowglobes at Xmas tree shops and used an image I found of a palm tree with xmas decorations and the disney boat with more disney text. I will try to post photos later.



I think they came out nice, I just hope everyone likes them!!

 

[Clochette nordique]

not sure if someone did this, as I only read a few pages of this thread, but I am going on a cruise soon and doing the FH gifts for the first time.

Oh- and the best one was I found tiny snowglobes at Xmas tree shops and used an image I found of a palm tree with xmas decorations and the disney boat with more disney text. I will try to post photos later.

I don't want to cut your pleasure, but did you verify if people are aloud to bring "snowglobes" back on the plane? I may have heard it wrong, but apparently, it's prohibited. Just in case...

Poussière de fée,
Cilvy

 

[ColoradoDisneyFreaks]

I don't want to cut your pleasure, but did you verify if people are aloud to bring "snowglobes" back on the plane? I may have heard it wrong, but apparently, it's prohibited. Just in case...

Poussière de fée,
Cilvy

As long as the snowglobes are in your checked baggage, you're fine.

Just to let everyone know, Hobby Lobby has cute unfinished wooden Christmas frame ornaments for $1 each. I was really tempted to buy some for my Med cruise and try and do the same painting that tjbaggot did on a bigger frame about 10 pages back or so, but they have even more now...

 

[tjbaggott]

As long as the snowglobes are in your checked baggage, you're fine.

Just to let everyone know, Hobby Lobby has cute unfinished wooden Christmas frame ornaments for $1 each. I was really tempted to buy some for my Med cruise and try and do the same painting that tjbaggot did on a bigger frame about 10 pages back or so, but they have even more now...

LOL, thats what happened here! I started with 12 frames, then our group grew to a final 39 families! That was a LOT of frames, but the feed back says it was worth it! I wouldn't do those particular ones again though, they were fairly big when you count 39 of them, and took up a ton of space in the luggage. Thankfuly we drove down. Next cruise though I'm flying, and don't want to have to worry about room for the FE's so if our group runs one, I'll do something smaller. I like your idea of the Christmas ornaments

 

[2gr8DisneyKids]

I saw some sellers on etsy with really cute DCL-themed ribbon used for key chains and socks for girls...

Anyone know where to get the cute ribbon? I was hoping to use it for our upcoming FE exchange.

Thanks!

 

[glassslipper2004]

Thank you all so much for posting - what an amazingly creative group of people you are!

I have never done an FE exchange before but it looks like there may be one on the trip we are considering for next August. If you are giving a gift to a particular person in the cabin (the DD10, for example) do you label it so they know it is for them? How have people done that? If you are giving a gift to the whole cabin (candy, for example) whose pocket do you put it in?

Any details/suggestions are very welcome.

 

[ColoradoDisneyFreaks]

LOL, thats what happened here! I started with 12 frames, then our group grew to a final 39 families! That was a LOT of frames, but the feed back says it was worth it! I wouldn't do those particular ones again though, they were fairly big when you count 39 of them, and took up a ton of space in the luggage. Thankfuly we drove down. Next cruise though I'm flying, and don't want to have to worry about room for the FE's so if our group runs one, I'll do something smaller. I like your idea of the Christmas ornaments

Luggage space was my biggest concern! Even so, with the pillow shams and the backpacks, it took up a lot of space, in retrospect, I should have done the frames instead of the post-it's, the kids wanted to help stamp them, and they were fun, but boy what a mess!

The ones I loved were the bottle-cap magnets (can you tell my husband thought I was nuts making all of this stuff?! )

 

[stingfancb]

Anyone know where I can get easy to read instructions to make a FE? I know I saw them somewhere, just can't remember. I'm sorta crafty, but don't own a sewing machine. Was thinking I could handstitch and then use trusty fabric glue.

 

[kimmiepcft]

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=30302583&postcount=609

try there, it is a great explanation!!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2068966

this one is the abc listing, it has some links if you scroll down.