Fish Extender

I love the painting on board idea, it's a bit more hardy than a sketch (to travel home with). I also love the 1st aid kit idea.

I did not realise until getting my gifts in order for next week how worrying it can be to find a good gift. I have not been given any gifts as yet but I can tell you what I have put together:

A handmade and designed key ring with a little cruise ship on it
Ladies have a personalised handmade bracelet in thier favourite colour
Kids have bubbles, stickers and either a book or an activity book
A wooden puzzle
T bags
3 of our favourite englis ph chocolate bars (Mars, toffee crisp and twix)
Men have a little dictionary of cockey rhyming slang

Hope this helps

We've done first aid kits including light cards for the newer ships, mini bottles with recipes (sucks that we can't do alcohol anymore) The painting or sketching could work as a cabin gift. I once bought 20 "DREAM" script wooden plaques and gave paint and two brushes for a cabin gift. I found a company on Amazon that sold paints in an eight color strip for a few bucks each. It worked out well, I put magnets on the back and then let people paint their own designs.
It's above the dry erase board in the picture. You could also make magnets for their doors.

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We had a big Fish extender group and while we did get a few nice things, we got a lot of crap, and some things that would have been great if we hand gotten 1 of them, but getting 3 or 4 was awkward to take home (plastic tumblers, 6 decks of cards). Honestly a lot of things went in the garbage at home.

My favorite things were things that were fairly small I could continue to use at home as well. What I continue to use is a handmade keychain, a Mickey head necklace on a leather thong, a tote bag, and a cookie cutter.

I really like the character painting idea, that is something that I would have kept and found a place for near my desk. It's personal and takes effort. As an artist if I were creating them though I would stick to one or two characters and give them randomly rather than doing everyone's favorite character. I've seen pictures of some awesome modernist Mickey's that have been done this way.

We had one person that gave Disney Pins and that was awesome too because I was able to take mine to the shop and trade it for one that I really wanted in their pin trading book.

I have just got back to port, and I can say I agre with KK! We got some tat, 1 thing I did like was Velcro covers for our suitcase handles, 2 pins to start Trading, Tim got a nice ice cream mug set, and we got a card with some of the ship artwork on as a photo.

Alice, again 3 awesome ideas. I would have been happy with any of them.

Love those new ideas! Especially the copy of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan.