Hi and welcome to our Blog. Frankly, I wish I knew back in 2006 what I know now about Web development. If I did you might find getting around our sites a little bit easier. Please, let me explain.
Our main Web site for party planning activities in the Chicagoland area is ABnCParties. We also supply and ship place cards, candle lightings, table signs and pennants. letter balloons, etc. Samples are generally seen on the ABnCParties site.
We have two sites for nationwide shipment of do it yourself centerpiece supplies and kits for party decorations. Click for theme parties or for wedding and rehearsal parties.
If you need directions on any of those sites, along the top navigation bar or menu, is a link to “Site Map“. Use it to find your way by alphabetized subject.
When on those sites you can always come back here by clicking on “Blog” on the top navigation bar, or menu.
Or you can always call Judy at 847-634-6535 for assistance and ideas to help your Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah or Wedding dreams turn into reality!
Judy takes this flat (as versus a tent or fold over) baseball theme custom party place card and adds a flair to the party. She combines the place card with a baseball theme key wring as a low priced give away to all guests.
The step by step shows four areas she works on one step at a time. After determining the size of the place card, she sets up space for the celebrant name, the guest’s name as well as the table name he is to sit at. The celebrant’s name is enhanced with some 3-D effects. Then she adds a custom graphic – here a ‘stock’ baseball batter. Custom graphics can also be included – such as a picture from little league days.
The place cards can be used for all kind s of events, such as Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs, rehearsal and wedding dinners and just about any other event, sports banquet or celebration where assigned seating is required.
These custom party place cards, or table seating cards, are generally arranged on a place card table and selected prior to entering the banquet hall or facility. Judy produces many, many types of custom party place cards. Future videos will present additional how to instructions for different styles and shapes.
For samples of other custom party place cards as well as more ideas, tips and suggestions, visit our custom place card page.
Customer service is our number one consideration at A-BnC Parties and More, Inc. We love to talk to prospective customers and friends rather than merely offering an e-commerce shopping cart site. That way we can talk about the total picture and fill needs, thereby turning dreams into actual reality. Here is a recent example.
While I was away for a few days with our daughter, Ely, Michael took a call from some very nice people in California. The Lodi Rotary was planning a football theme event and Sharon was interested in either using our football quarterback custom foam cut out, just a football cutout or a football helmet cut out and wanted to explore her options. She was going to order and paint them herself.
Michael talked with both Sharon and Pat. He learned they were in a time crunch and needed delivery to California in eight days. This meant a fast turnaround since everything we make is custom cut and normal UPS shipping from Illinois to California is four days. They were also concerned about painting the cut outs as well as how the cut out would stand up on the table and whether they could make a table sign, etc.
Michael assured them we could make their delivery schedule with a complete custom football centerpiece package with figures painted to their color coding. The centerpiece assembly would merely require a low temperature glue gun and a few minutes of their time to complete. He prepared a short proposal with a couple of options.
Pictured are two of the final products (not shown final assembled). We cut football shaped bases which is a new design option, painted the tops brown and ribboned each base. Each football foam theme cut out was painted a separate color. Both feet had a wooden pic glue into the bottom so two quick dabs of low temperature glue were all that were required to secured them to the base.
A pennant and ribboned dowel completed the look. Some additional gluing was all that was required to put the pennant on the dowel and another squirt to attach it to the football base. The centerpieces were shipped on time and received with 24 hours to spare, according to our anticipated delivery schedule. We had emailed these photos to Pat when we shipped and he was delighted when he saw them. A-BnC Parties and More can perform equally to your task once you give us an opportunity to be of service.
For more custom centerpiece ideas, visit our blog pages as well as out do-it-yourself-centerpiece site. And call Judy at (847) 634-6535 if you need advice on your special custom centerpiece project. Please remember, if you can draw the figure on paper and send us an electronic version, most likely we can make a custom foam cut out to match!
In this new video Judy explains how she makes simple, flat custom party place cards for customers using a computer program. Here she lays out the four areas in a card approximately four inches wide by two and one-half inches high with a black border.
The four areas include a place for a graphic, the name of the celebrant, the guests’ names as well as the table name they are asked to sit at. The place cards can be used for bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs, rehearsal and wedding dinners and just about any other event, banquet or celebration where assigned seating is required.
Generally these place cards, or table seating cards, are selected prior to entering the banquet hall or facility from a place card table. Judy produces many, many types of custom party place cards. Future videos will present additional how to instructions for different styles and shapes.
For samples of other custom party place cards as well as more ideas, tips and suggestions, visit our custom place card page.
I came across this video the other day and thought how great this would be to pass on to all my friends. It is a video of Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, two crooners, singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame“.
Although this video was done many years ago, and both our beloved Frank and Gene are no longer with us, we can still enjoy their great talents. Their enthusiasm for the game of baseball is quite contagious. I know it made me want to sing along with them!
Wouldn’t you just love to have Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly sing at your Bar or Bat Mitzvah or at your wedding rehearsal or reception celebration? Imagine how great it would be to have them sing at your baseball themed Bar Mitzvah. You certainly would be the envy of all your friends and family. Of course it would not be possible, considering the fact that we lost both of these men many years ago; but it doesn’t hurt to dream!
I hope this video makes you also want to sing along. So either jump up or just sit back and put your feet up and enjoy!!!!!
Just last week we introduced you to an application of inserting transparent musical star power paper to our flexible plastic tubes for your custom party celebration centerpieces. This gives a different look to the tubes other than mylar paper shred, lights, candy, etc. Here’s a recent example of how it highlights this music based custom centerpiece whee the party theme revolved around the popular television program Glee! Glee, of course, is a popular musical comedy-drama television series that is seen on the Fox network. According to Wikipedia: “It touches on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues.”
The custom centerpiece revolved around the Glee music and star theme. It was built on a regular round, styrofoam base which was sprayed and two ribbons were added to its side. The transparent star paper was added to the flexible plastic centerpiece tube which was then glued to the styrofoam base. A smaller, round piece of styrofoam was similarly painted and adorned with ribbon and glued to the top of the flexible plastic tube.
The cup on top was filled with mylar shredded paper and represents the fruit flavored ice cream drinks which are frequently thrown on members of the glee club members by jocks, cheerleaders and other so-called popular kids in school. Highlighted to the left is a faux DVD made with a graphics art program and inserted into a blank CD/DVD case. To the right is a pennant with the name ‘Sweet Caroline’ which is one of the songs the Glee choir sings. The name doubles as the table name and custom party place cards to assign seating to guests were made to correspond. Both were attached by wooden dowel embellished with a corresponding colored ribbon.
We used three colors of mylar paper poofs which went along with the color theme of the party celebration. Silver onion grass and musical notes completed the package. All together these readily available items made for a significant impact to the party celebrations’ participants guests.
Need help putting together your creative ideas or just want to save time finding hard to get items? Contact Judy at ABnCParties for assistance or call (847) 634-6535, now. We have been helping make your dreams turn into reality since 1990.
I came across a unique idea for a custom party place card, colored luggage tags. This is a very clever idea for anyone having a destination wedding or for that special couple that met on an airplane or even a couple that just loves to fly.
These multi colored luggage tags double as gifts for the guests in addition to letting them know where they will be seated for dinner at the wedding reception or wedding rehearsal dinner. Not only does the guest have something to show them where their table is, they also have a practical little gift that they can use at a later date when they travel. What a nice way for a destination bride to thank her guests for making the trip to her wedding.
The innovative bride could even use the colors of the luggage tags to designate the food choice of her guest. Blue could be for fish, green could be for vegetarian and red could be for meat.
The luggage tag can even be personalized with the bride and groom’s name for the guests to keep as an added gift and remembrance of the special day and event. A custom party place card that serves two purposes is a practical way to save money in this economy.
For more custom party place card as well as party place card table ideas please visit our place card and place card table pages on our website.
By now you should all be aware that A-BnC Parties replaced heavy, breakable acrylic tubes with flexible plastic tubes in designing our custom party centerpieces several years ago. That is, of course, unless you are a new visitor to this site. A-BnC Parties uses these tubes for the cheap tall, air filled balloon centerpieces for weddings and other parties, celebrations and events. We also use the tall flexible plastic tubes to gain height and even support a second level on many of our other custom theme centerpieces.
In the past we added shred, candy, wrapping paper, battery operated lights, etc. to the inside of the tubes to make for a ‘different’ look and/or appearance. Well here is a new application. Below are pictures of a recent variation. We added a transparent paper with a star theme inside the flexible plastic tubes. (We’ll tell you more about the theme in a future blog article.)
We love these flexible plastic tubes because they are so lightweight, and are nearly indestructible. They allow your creation to be handled easily. Transport is also easier and they are less expensive than rigid acrylic tubes or glass towers, which are also breakable. Shipping charges are also considerably much lower. As stated prior, you can use them to add height and color to your centerpieces. They are hollow and can be filled with many different items. So they can fit almost any theme based celebration, whether for a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah party celebration, sports banquet, birthday party, anniversary, retirement party, corporate event, etc.
These flexible plastic tubes are available in two sizes 1¼” and 1-5/16″. We sell them cut to size, in 6″ increments. Determine what length(s) you need and the number (of each length) desired. Then contact us for shipping charges. Illinois sales tax added where applicable. Or, order samples of both sizes at http://abncparties.com/blog/samples/flexible-plastic-centerpiece-tubes/. Pay only for shipping and handling.
