How to make your own upcycled heart christmas decorations....

Sorry we missed you last Monday, Christmas eve was quite a hectic affair!

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas.


Now, before Christmas we promised to show you how to make your own heart upcycled decorations.


They don't have to be for Christmas, you can use any material, ribbon and buttons and make them however big or small you want!

OK so here we go!.........



Firstly draw on a sheet of paper a heart shape and cut out two. Pin them onto your fabric.....

Cut around your paper pattern hearts until you have two fabric hearts.....

Place the hearts with the right sides together and sew either by hand or on the machine. Leaving the hole at the top about 2cm wide......

Trim the excess around the stitching......

Turn your heart inside out......

Stuff your heart with old cushion filler or toy filler, which you can get from any good haberdashery store...

Hand stitch the opening of your heart .......

Pin some ribbon in a loop shape to the centre of the heart......

Hand sew a button in the centre of your heart......

Ta dah! up cycled decorations! For any occasions not just for Christmas!

Competition time over on facebook......

I know last week we said we would show you how to make your own Christmas decorations, we will, just bear with us! This week has been crazy getting all the last minute Christmas stockings and Santa sacks out.

Over on our Face book page we are running a competition, all you need to do is share with us a picture of your tfpbc's Santa sack, stockings or decorations give us a 'like' and you could win a personalized shopper!

We thought we would share some of our favorites with you!

Have a fab week, I cant believe its Christmas Eve next Monday! See you then x

 

  

Upcycled Christmas Decorations.......

Is your tree up? Our's went up last weekend! We went for a red and white theme. What do you think?

The TFPBC tree.

 

 

As we use unwanted garments to make all the letters for our party bags, stockings, aprons, shoppers, laundry bags and Santa sacks, we have collected a big jar of buttons.

So we made a few upcycled heart Christmas decorations to use a few of them up!.......

You can now get your set of upcycled Christmas decorations at our store. 3 pack for only £7.50.

Have your self an upcycled little Christmas!

If you want to have a bash yourself of making your very own upcycled decorations pop back next week for our do it yourself post!

Have a fab week x

3 pack upcycled decorations £7.50.

Don't forget your pets! ........

Our personalized Christmas Stockings are selling out fast!

We had a request from a customer to make a special pet stocking with a paw print.

Ta dah! how cute, now you can get one too, for your little cat or dog, available from our store.

Paw Print Stockings £7 each.

  

2012 the year when Britain was truly Great!...........

2012, what a year! the Jubilee, the Olympics.......... a year to be proud. 

So we thought we would make a special Union jack 2012 stocking to celebrate, all made from upcycled material!

Ta dah! God save the Queen!

(only £11.95 from our store) 

A vintage fair isle shirt...........

For those of you who follow us you will know that all of the appliqued personalized letters we use on our products are made from unwanted garments, either stuff that's damaged and being thrown out or special finds from charity shop across the land.

On a recent shopping trip to our favorite charity shop we came across this gorgeous vintage fair isle shirt.

A charity shop find

 

Perfect we thought for our personalized upcycled Christmas stockings! Ta dah!

Christmas Personalized Upcycled Stocking - Vintage Shirt £6.50 

 
The shirt isn't very large, we think we can get about 10 letters out of it, so once its gone its gone! Don't miss out! You can order yours from our store.

Party Bag Fillers

We have been asked a lot recently if we could add just fillers to our shop.

They are perfect, not only for party bag fillers, or pass the parcel gifts but also as we lead up to Christmas, great for advent gifts or stocking fillers!

Check out the latest edition to our family.......

Colouring Pencils 50p each.

Baby Bath Boats 50p each.

Butterfly and Plane gliders 40p each.

Jet balls 35p each.

Wooden sand yatchs £2.50 each.

Wooden Dinos 50p each.

Keep Calm, it's only Christmas!

Well September is here, a few leaves have started to fall, the heating has been on a little, Autumn is coming! That only means one thing, Christmas is around the corner.

I know, I know by the time it actually arrives we will all sick of turkey and mulled wine, but the excitement of Christmas is defiantly in the air! Our Personalized Upcycled Christmas Stockings are back in stock on our shop!

As so many of you loved them last year we are adding in a few more options, we will keep you posted.

So there is only one last thing to say, Keep Calm, its Only Christmas! x

The Friendly Party bag Co's Memory Tree

So Christmas went with a blink of an eye! We were so busy making our personalized upcycled stockings we forgot to blog about our tree.

When I was little, we never had a 'real' tree which made me rebel when I finally flew the nest. So every year for the past 12 years I have had a real tree, the smell is just amazing!

I like to call my tree the Memory Tree. There is no theme or colour palette, its just stuff I have collected over the years, like a string of white disco balls which I bought from a market in Hong Kong, little Babushka Dolls which the other half bought me from a trip to Moscow, and glitter candy canes from crate and barrel on a boxing day holiday to the Big Apple.

I also put my The Friendly Party Bag Co's personalized stockings under the tree, strange considering I have a very nice fire place!

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!!!

xx

p.s the tree comes down tomorrow, as much as I love it I need the space back and I can not stand the mess!

The Friendly Party Bag Co, Stockings hanging on the fire.

We posted our last Stocking today! we have taken the stocking off our site, only because the last post is tomorrow :( we have had a very busy few months making our personalised, upcycled stockings! We have had great customer feedback on our Facebook page, with an influex of pictures, of our stockings hanging over some gorgeous fireplaces!

Here just a few!...........

Merry Christmas! x

 

The Friendly Party bag Co's Facebook Feedback

Christmas is coming, not long now! we are selling personalized stockings made from unwanted fabric.
Check out our shop!

We have had some great feed back on our Facebook page, which has made us all warm and fuzzy inside!
Here are just a few! x

The Friendly Party Bag Co's and Poco Nido at the Rose n Lily Advent Fair!

Yesterday we had a lovely day at the Rose n Lily Advent fair in Chipperfield. It really started to feel like Christmas, not long now!................

We were there with our good friends from Poco Nido  who were introducing their gorgeous collection of t-shirts and pram shoes.

Rose n Lily had a gorgeous display of shabby chic furniture and gifts........

And of course we were their with our party bags, fillers and upcycled christmas stockings!

Off to Sheffield next month for more Christmas fairs!!! x

The Friendly Party Bag Co at Rose and Lily's Advent Fair in Chipperfield.

Our Friends Rose 'n' Lily are hosting an Advent Fair in Chipperfield's Village Hall, and of course we will be there showing a selection of Up cycled Personalized Christmas Stockings, Stocking Fillers and of course not forgetting our Personalized Party Bags! (If you can't make it, don't forget you can order from our shop!)

Our good friend Poco Nido will be there too, selling there first batch of t-shirts and taking pram shoe pre orders!

Other Stalls include, gorgeous personalized  Christmas CARDS, hand made DECORATIONS, hand crafted JEWELLERY, CAKES and puddings, luxury HAMPERS, a kids CRAFT table and FREE tea and coffee.

Not forgetting gorgeous furniture from Rose 'n' Lily.

Everything you need for a unique and shabby chic Christmas!

We look forward to seeing you there, sunday 20th November 10am - 3pm!

The Friendly Party Bag Co's Up cycled Christmas Stockings.

Christmas is not far away now, can you believe it? Time fly's!
To add to our collection or gorgeous up-cycled personalized party bags we have made a small batch of personalized up-cycled stockings. Now selling in our shop.  Choose from red and white polka dot or gingham, once you have checked out just let us know which initial's you require.

Large initial personalized Christmas Stocking £5.00.

Christmas Tree personalized Stocking £6.50.