Our personalized play aprons.....

We have changed the base colour of our personalized upcycled play aprons, as requested by you! As white and little ones don't always mix!

What do we think? you can grab yours from our store.

Boys play apron with check initial.

Girls play apron with flower initial.

Oliver is here!

Oliver the Owl has landed over on our Etsy store.

Pop over and say hi!

Have a fab week!

x

The Upcycled Owl Family.

Our little upcycled owl family is growing! We blogged back in January about a making Oliver, we now have Orla and Olivia!

These little up cycled soft ornaments our made from unwanted clothes and buttons, designed by Joanna Vickers (one of our team) and soon to be added to our store.

 

Great feedback over on our twitter feed......

We had some great feedback from on our twitter feed last week. Its so nice to hear from our customers, each one of our bags is personalized with a letter made from unwanted garments. Each bag is unique, and completely reusable! you can get your's here.

Have a great week!

x

Just wanted to say 'HI'..........

.........and to say due to your feed back, we have changed our fabric party bags from a draw string to a bag with handles, hope you like? Only £2 each for a limited time only. Check out our store.

Have a great week! x

Only £2 each upcycled and personalized.

Rainbow Nappy Sacks........

One of our super customers asked us to work on a Nappy sack for her daughters bump! Not knowing the flavor we worked up a rainbow design made from up cycled materials.

What do we think?

If you would like us to work on something special, just drop us an email.

Have a great week! x

Adult aprons are here!

Our Children's play apron's have been wizzing out recently, personalized of course with a letter made from unwanted fabric.

We were asked to do matching mummy and daughter one's....... cute.

Perfect for the chef in your family, or for mothers or farthers day!

Soon to be listed on our store.

Have a great week!

x

Perfect gift for Dad!

Any letter, any fabric!

Upcycled little things..............

Most of you that follow us will know that we don't like waste, and all the letters on our personalized party bags, aprons, shoppers and laundry bags are made from unwanted fabric and garments.

Sometimes we get bits and pieces that our too small for our letters, so we were wondering, what do we do with them....... 

Ta dah!

Our funny bunny!

We're not quite sure if she is cute or a tad scary, but, we love her as she was our first, which made us start to think, what other little upcycled fellows can we make?

So each one of us in the tfpbc team is going to design a little upcycled fellow. Here is a sneak preview of Joanna's. Oliver, Olivia and Orla the owl will be visiting our store soon in limited runs. A more detailed post of how to make your very own will follow......

Oliver the owl, work in progress...

Have a good week x

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!

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.

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) 

Personalized wedding favour bags..............

For those of you who follow us, you will know that we recently had a huge order (for little old us) 125 personalized wedding favor bags. The grooms are my very close friends and I was honored to share their special day with them.

It was fabulous! After the very touching and emotional service, the guests walked down a marble stair case to be greeted by the best men offering a cocktail can of either Gin or vodka and Tonic, a bag of nuts and a packet of biscuits in The Friendly Party Bag Co's favor bag, a light refreshment while we hopped on to a coach, to get to the party venue.

I though I would share some pics with you, unfortunately I did'nt snap Toby and Ben with a bag! :(

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish Toby and Ben all the very best for the future, and lots and lots of love xx

Busy best men and bags fillers.

Me and my besties. x

Best man.

Lovely Ladies.

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.

Play Aprons

Have you seen our new addition to the family? They are so cute!!

Children's personalized play aprons, your child will never come back from nursery or school with someone else's apron ever again!

As always you can get any of our products from our store.

Apron Personalised and upcycled £8.50

Up-cycling your personalized up-cycled party bags!

On a recent trip away, I needed to hand harry lots of essential bits and bobs, my hand bag was getting messy. Out came the old party bags,............ Ta dah! Reuse, recycle and up-cycle!

What do you use yours for? x

Wedding Favor Bags personalised and upcycled, of course ;)

The past few weeks have been crazy here at TFPBC towers!

We were asked to design and make 125, yep 125!! wedding favor bags.

Our design is a simple, initial heart initial, like you use to carve into the old wooden school desks!

If you need something special for any occasion, just send us an email at thefriendlypartybagco@gmail.com or visit our store.

Cut out production line

Wedding favor bags personalized and upcycled!

Halloween Party bags.......

Halloween is not far away now!

As you know we use unwanted garments or off cuts of fabric to make our personalized upcycled products, we found a job lot of Halloween off cuts which we snapped up to make you these! We have 6 types of fabric from back cats to metallic pumpkins.

Our Halloween personalized party bags are only £2.25 each available from our store

Happy Halloween! x

Our Halloween off cuts.

Party Bags

Boo!

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

We are supporting team GB!

To celebrate the London 2012 Olympics we have created a Union Jack team GB party bag! available from our shop only £3.95. Made from unwanted garments, perfectly upcycled!