Sep 16
It’s probably a wee bit late to send out yer invitations fer Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th), but if ye’ve got plans fer ‘nother Pirate Party in ye future, ye best be examinin’ what we’ve got here.
Have ye got both pirates and princesses a-comin’ to ye gatherin?
Try this one on fer size, matey!
‘N here are some crafts for your wee skallywags (I especially like the newspaper swords)
P.S. Be sure to scour the decks and hoist the yardarm for yee party guests.
P.P.S. Change your Facebook language to Pirate by going to the bottom, click on “English”, then click “English” again to get a pulldown where “English (pirate)” is the option ya want.
P.P.P.S. Ye don’t like the invitations here? Try The Pirate Party Invitation Page, or ask Poly Graphics to design something unique for you.
Arrrrrgh!
Sep 14
The hardest part of creating an invitation is getting the wording right.
Do you try to be funny?
Get right to the point?
Rhyme?
The whole idea is to get people prepared for your celebration – excited about attending, and to give them a hint about what the party will be like.
Make sure to get the basics covered, then add the cute stuff.
Give them this information, at bare minimum:
- Why are you celebrating? Is the party for a birthday? Mention their name and age.
- When is the party? List the Date and Time
- Where is it? Give the address and possibly town and zip code. Giving the zip code on an invitation is sometime frowned upon. But if your guests are not familiar with the area, they may be using a GPS to find the place and the zip code will help them.
- RSVP (request for response, a French phrase répondez s’il vous plaît, meaning “Please respond”). Do you want your guests to call you or email you to let you know they are coming? List both the Date that they should respond by and how they should let you know.
An RSVP date is usually 3-10 days before your party date – when your guests respond to your invitation it will give you a count of guests that are attending so that you can prepare food and goodies for the right number of people. If you are hiring someone to prepare food for you, they may need to know how many guests you expect a week or more in advance. Sometimes party venues require that you let them know 10 days in advance how many you expect at your celebration.
If you would just like to know who is not attending, say “Regrets Only” and list your phone number or email address or both.
After you’ve got those 4 essentials written down, then search for an invitation design that fits your celebration. Also think about if you’d like to add a rhyme or cute saying.
Happy Wording,
P.S. There are some that say you should never put a zip code on an invitation. If the celebration is informal, I say go ahead.
P.P.S. You could write a book about wedding invitation etiquette.
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May 03
It’s getting warmer – time to fire up the grill and invite a few friends over for some backyard fun.
We’ve got just the thing to get your party started – invitations themed for your backyard party activities.
Are you planning a cookout or barbecue?
Or a backyard game party?
Croquet anyone?
Have you ever set up your own mini-putt course in your backyard? Do it and invite your friends with this mini-golf invitation
Have a great time with your backyard party!
P.S. This is just a small sampling of the backyard party invitations available at PolyGraphics.com. See more on the games invitation page or on the BBQ / cookout invitations page.
P.P.S. As with all invitations from Poly Graphics – all wording, graphics location and color of wording and graphics can be changed as you desire.
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Mar 29
At Poly Graphics we try to re-use newspaper and packing paper as much as we can.
Recently my sister cleaned out her storage space – she emptied many boxes of stuff that she ended up giving away to family or bringing to the dump. Left behind were several boxes full of packing paper – a great thing for Poly Graphics to re-use when we ship our invitation orders. We just couldn’t stand seeing this good packing paper be thrown away.
We’ve been using up the packing paper in the boxes that we ship out.
Last week we found something inside the paper… something hard. Unrolling the packing paper left us with this fishy thing.
My sister lost this wooden fish in the packing paper! We think it was part of a game – a fishing game that uses magnets… because the fish has a magnet on its nose.
We’re glad we didn’t send this fish to a customer!
P.S. Are you re-using and re-cycling? Poly Graphics re-uses and recycles as much as we can… any waste that we have that our our town recycles, gets recycled.
P.S.S. When we run out of packing paper we’ll switch to using newspaper to pad our boxes.
Feb 05
Even though we proofread every order, check for grammar errors, check for print quality, and double count envelopes, we still make mistakes sometimes.
The party invitation should have said “Beth” not “Bet”.
And we shipped the invitations to the customer. Yikes!
As Poly Graphics always does, we admit our mistake and fix it as quickly as possible. Luckily there was enough time for the corrected invitations to arrive and be delivered to guests before the RSVP date got too close.
We’re human, we make mistakes, but we admit them, fix them, and move on.
Try us, we’ll do our best to get your right the first time!
Jan 07
My sister knows that I like variety in my tea (varie-tea ? 
)
So she gave me a bag of Beverly Healthy Flower Tea from Malaysia. It is described as “Cooling Flower Tea” and on the back of the bag it gives instructions for how to prepare the tea and benefits (all in uppercase!)
- HOW TO MAKE BEVERLY HEALTHY FLOWER TEA
- CUT AND POUR INTO CUP
- ADD 250ML BOILED WATER THEN COVER
- WAIT FOR 3 MINUTES THEN READY TO SERVED
- ADD ROCK CANDY AND REPEAT SAME THINGS FOR 2 TIMES
- DRINK HOT OR COLD (ICE OR CHILL)
- BEVERLY’S HEALTHY FLOWER TEA IS PRODUCED IN HYGIENCE MODERN TECHNOLOGY, IT KEEPS THE THIRSTY AWAY, HELP TO MAINTAIN HEALTH OF YOURS AND YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS.
I’m so glad that they used hygience modern technology!
And wow, I really want to keep the thirsty away – this is MY tea!!
For the new year, I bet everyone wants to maintain health of yours.
Lesson learned: Hire the best translator you can find. And proofread, proofread, proofread!
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