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Make Your Own Feis Bucket
Great
for keeping all your feis stuff in
one place and having a place for your
dancer to sit without creasing that
beautiful dress! There are many variations
to the bucket--mainly in the cushion.
Have fun and see what works best for
you. My dancer loved making this! |
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of Supplies |
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5
gal bucket from Walmart, Home
Depot, etc. |
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Bar
stool cushion (or foam padding
cut to fit) |
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Fabric
to cover padding, cut around the
pad leaving about 5" extra
on the edge. |
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Photos,
window clings, stickers, 4 buttons
(optional) |
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Clear
laminate roll (optional) sold
by cabinet liners |
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Industrial Strength Velcro |
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Stick
glue, scissors, needle and thread |
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fun and decorate it--either directly
on the bucket or cut paper to fit then
decorate. We used stick glue to attach
pictures and confetti. Cut laminate
a bit larger than the pictures to help
protect them. |
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The
Lid: This is just one way to do
it.
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After
cutting the fabric, sew/tack it down
to cushion on underneath side--no
one will see what it looks like.
Sew
the top four indents down with buttons
if you like. We found some cute shamrock
buttons at Joanns. |
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Use
the industrial strength velcro and
attach top of lid and bottom of cushion.
Don't actually put the velcro to velcro
yet (cushion to the lid). The glue
on the velcro needs to set overnight
so just leave them apart until the
next day. |
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can make a "Feis Necessities"
list and glue/tape it to the underside
of the bucket. The list should include
everything you need to bring to the
feis! Press the link to the right to
get a list to get you started. |
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Bucket
Creations
Please
email us with your ideas/variations
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| The
bucket has been wonderful!
It's great to tote around, holding
stuff in
and sitting on. It keeps my dress
in perfect shape!
For my bucket I used
velcro for the cushion. It's
great. I just take the cushion on
and off. This helped
a bunch during a very rainy feis.
Also with the
decorations I went to Kinko's and
had them laminate it
for me. This worked very well as when
it rained for
that feis it kept all my decorations
dry. Though I did
learn I need to laminate each page
seperately. I
laminated them all together in one
piece and it didn't
fit the bucket correctly. I had to
cut each page and
then stick it on. The sequin strings
going vertically
are there to fix mess ups. But it
turned out nicely!
--Tiffany
Birkinbine |
Tiffany's Feis Bucket
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I used foam shamrocks we bought at
Michaels last year and layered them.
I also use a purple holographic bookcover
paper (like contact paper) and cut
out some shamrocks. Of couse I had
to have pictures of me and my friends
on the bucket. Oh, the green bucket
was from Walmart, they also had a
pink. I haven't seen them at the store
lately though.
--Sarah
Klahn |
Sarah's
Feis Bucket
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