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For our upcoming trip, we will be celebrating my mom's 60th birthday. My sister and I thought it would be fun to make up t-shirts for all of us (me, DH, DS (6), DD (11), sister and mom) for the event.
My sister suggested mom's to have something like, "It's my 60th birthday!"; my sister's and mine would say, "It's my mom's 60th birthday!"; DS & DD's would say, "It's my grandma's 60th birthday!"; and not quite sure what DH's would say.
I'm not too sure I'm keen on that idea--does it seem a little dorky? Anyone have any other ideas? This would be a surprise for my mom.
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We used zazzle, I think, through the online Disney store, to make up tshirts for our Christmas trip. They came out nice, and we enjoyed wearing the matching shirts (there were 7 of us - me, DH, our 3 DS, my Mom and my sister). I think it would be fun if you made shirts up!
There are alot of generous people on the disboards that create personalized designs for people. Its on the creative DISigns forum under "just for fun".
There are alot of generous people on the disboards that create personalized designs for people. Its on the creative DISigns forum under "just for fun".
Thank you so much for directing me to this! There are a ton of ideas here and it really helped.
For our upcoming trip, we will be celebrating my mom's 60th birthday. My sister and I thought it would be fun to make up t-shirts for all of us (me, DH, DS (6), DD (11), sister and mom) for the event.
My sister suggested mom's to have something like, "It's my 60th birthday!"; my sister's and mine would say, "It's my mom's 60th birthday!"; DS & DD's would say, "It's my grandma's 60th birthday!"; and not quite sure what DH's would say.
I'm not too sure I'm keen on that idea--does it seem a little dorky? Anyone have any other ideas? This would be a surprise for my mom.
We did this for our youngest's 5th birthday. DW and I wore orange shirts with blue fabric paint lettering, and his older brother wore a blue shirt with orange fabric paint lettering: "Nick is 5 Today"; He wore a blue shirt with orange lettering and swirls designs "I Am 5 Today!". He got plenty of well-wishes from park-goers, and lots of magical surprises from cast members.
GO FOR IT!
We did this for DS's birthday/first visit combo. We ordered shirts from the Disney store for everyone in our Grand Gathering (total 9). They all said "Birthday Celebration at Walt Disney World ". We wore them on his birthday (which was our last night there), and he had all his birthday badges pinned to his (be sure to get hers at the guest services desk at each park). These Ts were the softest I have ever seen and washed well. As a plus, the design I selected had 9 characters in it, so we had fun deciding who was who on the shirt. Caught them on discount, so they were the same as ordering from somewhere else. Will probably do it on our next 5th birthday/first trip in 2010.
Check out my signature picture. My shirt says "Celebrating my 40th birthday with all my friends" My dd's shirt says "Celebrating my mom's 40th birthdya with all of our friends". It was great wearing them around and the comments we got from everyone especially the characters at the breakfast I went to on my birthday. Even my dd's dad wore one (his said "Celebrating Kris' 40th birthday with all our friends"). I highly recommend it and I got my artwork from Eileen and then we printed them backward on iron on transfer paper and ironed them on tshirts I had bought at AC Moore. Do it it's a blast!!!!!!!
We'll be in WDW next Friday to celebrate my dd's 12th birthday. The 6 people in our party are all going to wear matching "Incredibles" shirts. I bought fabric paint and painted on dd's in bright colors "one INCREDIBLE birthday girl."
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Dd and I are doing a "girls" trip in July for her 7th birthday.
We will be in MK all day for her actual birthday. Starting w/ breakfast in the castle where she will want to wear her Cinderella dress, but I'm imagining that she won't want to spend the rest of the day in it in the July heat.
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Dd and I are doing a "girls" trip in July for her 7th birthday.
We will be in MK all day for her actual birthday. Starting w/ breakfast in the castle where she will want to wear her Cinderella dress, but I'm imagining that she won't want to spend the rest of the day in it in the July heat.
I need to come up with something good.
Here's one of my designs:
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I don't think it would be dorky! Go for it!
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