nosuchluck

Hello everyone
hope that you've had a great bank holiday despite the weather (again)!!!
i've been thinking about our leaving do that we hope to have at the end of the summer but cant find any appropriate invitations! Tried making my own but they look cack!!!!
does anyone know of anywhere in Dorset/Hampshire that i could get Australian type invites/banners from?
thanks guys
Rach x

mlbonner

What do you mean, the weather?? It was beautiful here today, we had a carboot sale this morning and both my dad and I were sporting tan marks by midday

Dont know your area that well, but have you tried doing a search online; google and ask always seem to work well for me!

Boomie

why dont ya try the oz shop in london rach where i got me flag n napkins from


love boom
xx

teach

Hiya Rach,
The weather was great in Manchester and the midlands this weekend and today. Did you get lots of rain? Not sure about invites etc, maybe a printers shop maybe more helpful.

Sarah

Larissa

Do they really look that bad? I love homemade cards and make most of mine... you could try doing them on the 'puter, or just do the writing? Maybe your daughter could help out, that way everyone will love them!?

joh117

I designed mine on the computer and had a koala with an aussie flag in his hand. It looked great. I emailed out the ones I could far quicker and easier than posting and then posted the ones out that didn't have a computer. There are some great clip art stuff about.

Enjoy the party mine seems a blurr now but it was a great night.

Jo

nosuchluck

Thanks Larissa,
will give it a go! Chanelle's birthday is just before we go, so she's been busy designing limo trip invites!
thanks again
Rach x

nosuchluck

Thanks mate
will give it a go!
hugs
Rach xxx

Sandra

Clip Art is ok, but go look round the web and choose a picture you like - especially the flag sites. Use your colour printer if you have one and you can print off a flag, fold it and write the invite inside!

Use a colour print shop for double sided copies cause this will be cheaper than using your ink!

easy? And like the others have said - personal home made invites mean a whole lot more - for those invites you do not use, glue them to sting....and you have a flag banner!

Make every other one on your banner a picture of your family?

Have fun

nosuchluck

Thanks Sandra
nice idea,
hugs
Rach x

karen p

I found this website for flags/bunting etc

Party Packs website

As for the invites, my daughters each made their own for
their friends using the computer and then I made mine using
images from Google. Luckily Steve (my husband) could then
photo copy them at work.

Good luck with it all. Unfortunately we didn't have much
choice as to the date when we had ours as the venue was
fully booked, apart from 5th June. As this is the weekend at the
end of half term a lot of people haven't been able to come as
they've gone away for half term. The chap at the venue said you
can count on 10% of those you invite not coming, ours was more
like 40%!!!!

Anyway I am looking forward to it as a lot of friends who we've
not seen for years are coming.

Anyway I'm sure we;ll have a great time, crying allowing!!

Karen.

Sandra

This idea is going to sound completely mad - but I did it for a birthday!

We got a couple packs of cocktail sticks and glue and a few sheets of little double flags printed up (yes I know you can buy them - but this is more fun for kids, fold them over and stick!) but the kids spent ages preparing the little flags (and enjoyed it) and hid them all over the place and we sent the children off to find them!

The one who came back with the most got a prize, prize could be........for your relatives in the UK....

(1) 1 nights babysitting from you, when they pay to visit you in Aus
(2) 2 nights babysitting from you, when they pay to visit you in Aus
(3) You cook all night on the BBQ when winner visits you in Aus

etc etc

think about it you could hold a raffle, with the winner being drawn from the lucky personal number you wrote on their invite! If they do not bring their invites with them you could sell tickets for a raffle - If nothing more the raffle proceeds could go towards the next round of drinks!

On this site we must be able to think up a few good raffle prizes

(1) you get to clean my fridge/freezer I am leaving
(2) you get to clean the items I need to get past Aus customs, eg my Dyson!
(3) you get to bring no luggage to Aus on your first visit cause I need your allowance to bring what I forgot or miss and crave, eg M&S knickers!
.....

Gosh I wish I was having another leaving party!

Yes I am sad!

sj oldfield

Well, heres ya answer Rach.....larissa can start her own little empire, (in between looking after the kids, getting the house ready for the market and arranging the pompey meets!!!)