{"id":1918,"date":"2011-08-05T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_guest\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2022-05-05T00:11:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:11:40","slug":"personalized-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/personalized-t-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalized T-Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family and I have had the pleasure of visiting Walt Disney World three times.\u00a0 Our next visit is scheduled for this coming fall, and we are excited that eight of our extended family members will be joining our party of four!<\/p>\n

I wanted to get matching t-shirts for all of us to commemorate this big vacation and also to wear on our Magic Kingdom day.\u00a0 I did not want to use the printable iron-on transfers because I had used them before and found that they do not hold up well after several washings.\u00a0 I scoured the internet and found a lot of fun options.\u00a0 I wanted to share some of my favorite finds with you and also tell you what I chose for my family.<\/p>\n

One of the coolest customizable Disney t-shirt sites I found was http:\/\/www.explorethemagic.com\/custom-disney.asp, which redirects you to http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/disney<\/a>.\u00a0 Here you can choose from a variety of shirt styles, characters, and colors.\u00a0 You can also personalize your shirts with individual\u2019s names.\u00a0 It would have been great to have chosen a style and color and had the individuals in our group choose their favorite character for their shirt.\u00a0 However, the t-shirt prices were in the neighborhood of $20 each, and that was over my budget.<\/p>\n

I found several other sites that would print \u201cfamily reunion\u201d type shirts for us, where we would all wear the same shirt with the same print on it, but they would not be personalized.\u00a0 After seeing the shirts on www.zazzle.com<\/a>, I was hooked on the idea of matching shirts that were somehow personalized for each individual in our party.\u00a0 A friend of mine, who is a police officer, discourages putting children\u2019s names on their shirts because of safety concerns, so I thought a favorite character would be a perfect way to add personalization to the shirts.\u00a0 The challenge was to find a way to get this done that would not end up costing me $240 for 12 shirts.\u00a0 In fact, I was hoping for less that $10 per shirt, but I didn\u2019t know if that was possible.<\/p>\n

During my internet searches, I stumbled on etsy.com and found many cute mouse ear appliqu\u00e9 tees.\u00a0 My favorites were black mouse ears with Minnie\u2019s bow for the girls\/women in our party and black mouse ears with a pirate\u2019s bandanna for the boys\/men.\u00a0 Although the pictures I found on etsy.com were as cute as they could be, the price of the t-shirts multiplied by 12, plus shipping was more than I wanted to pay.<\/p>\n

A girlfriend suggested I simply order the appliqu\u00e9s and iron them onto shirts myself.\u00a0 This suggestion opened up a great and inexpensive alternative for me.\u00a0 I started looking at mouse ear appliqu\u00e9s and quickly realized that there are all kinds of Disney iron-on appliqu\u00e9s out there.\u00a0 I surveyed my family to find out each individual\u2019s favorite Disney character and ordered the character appliqu\u00e9s.\u00a0 I had to order from two different sites to get all the characters I needed, and both the sites shipped exactly what I expected to receive in a timely manner.\u00a0 I highly recommend YourPatchStore on Amazon.com because they have a large selection of characters and inexpensive shipping rates.\u00a0 I ended up spending $77.23 for 12 patches, including shipping, which yielded an average of $6.44 per patch.\u00a0 I selected light blue t-shirts from a local craft store and was thrilled to find them on sale 5 for $10.\u00a0 So for just under $9\/shirt, we have beautiful matching shirts for our trip, and each one is personalized with the individual\u2019s favorite character.<\/p>\n

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I have not yet ironed the patches on to the shirts, but I plan to iron them and put a few stitches in each just to make sure they hold well.\u00a0 I am so excited to have discovered iron-on appliqu\u00e9s as an inexpensive alternative to make t-shirts for our group.\u00a0 The appliqu\u00e9s are so pretty that I may order more and use them to personalize backpacks or lunch boxes in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My family and I have had the pleasure of visiting Walt Disney World three times.\u00a0 Our next visit is scheduled for this coming fall, and we are excited that eight of our extended family members will be joining our party of four! I wanted to get matching t-shirts for all of us to commemorate this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walt-disney-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85880,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/85880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}