Simply Party Pieces

19/10/2024

There are two kits out for hire this weekend. The plastic champagne flutes and wine "glasses" for a PTA event and the pastel kit for a party of 30 with jugs, platters and large serving plates. That's 220 pieces of reusable party ware helping to make parties more environmentally friendly.

12/10/2024

It's that time of year! As the shops are flooded with plastic confectionery containers in the run up to Halloween, Greene King have confirmed they are running their Tub2Pub scheme again. The aim is to collect clean, empty, plastic cracker, chocolate and biscuit containers and take them to a participating Greene King pub where they then sell them onto companies who shred them and use them to make things like play equipment rather than buying new plastic. Greene King then donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale to MacMillan Cancer Support.

Once again the lovely Costa Wallingford have offered to be a drop off point. So please take any clean empty containers to them and I will collect from there. For each collection of containers I make I will also make a donation to the Costa Foundation. So 2 charities will benefit from the scheme, and it's a win for the environment too as the tubs are often not easily recycled at most recycling branches.

With the help of Costa Wallingford last year we collected 273 tubs with lids, and that was just over the Christmas period. Think of how many more tubs we could recycle from Halloween too.

If you'd like to learn more about the scheme please click the link below.

https://www.tub2pub.co.uk/tub2pub/

10/09/2024

Now that the summer holidays are over the party season seems to be starting to pick up again. I have quotes and confirmed bookings for the bright and pastel kit during September, October, November and December. It's great to see so many people moving away from disposables. Long may it last. ♻️♻️🎉

13/07/2024

Two kits are out this weekend. The bright kit was a prize from a competition I ran a few months ago to choose the name of the "tropical kit". 309 pieces of reusable party ware in total. ♻️

07/07/2024

27/06/2024

It's hard to take a good photo of 60 plastic glasses, but here they are ready for this weekend's PTA event. Champagne flutes and wine glasses ♻️🍷🥂

23/06/2024

It's been a busy weekend this weekend. There's been 3 quotes to do, an invoice to raise for a PTA event for our wine and champagne flutes and a party of 26 to get ready with blue, green and white colours.

16/06/2024

Before and after shots of the new backdrop that I've been ironing this afternoon. One more go this evening and I think all the creases should come out. Then it'll be rolled up for storage until it's needed.

I haven't measured it yet but it's nearly as big as our double bed, so ironing it on our small ironing board has been quite a challenge.

06/06/2024

I now have 15 of these plates ready for hire. Along with the bunting, back drop and a few other decorations on the way there's certainly a theme going on.

28/05/2024

This is going to be my nemesis for the next few days/weeks. Just under 40M of bunting strands that need ironing and then sewing. I'm not a big fan of ironing, and I haven't used a sewing machine for 30+ years. So I'm a bit anxious about doing it, but can't afford to pay someone else to. It should look lovely when it's all completed though (hopefully).

26/05/2024

That's the last of this weekend's kit cleaned up. 312 pieces of reusable party ware helping to make an event environmentally friendly. Tomorrow it'll all be boxed up and put away in anticipation of the next event. ♻️♻️

24/05/2024

And now for something a little more grown up. Wine glasses and Prosecco glasses, 30 of each, all made of plastic and ready for grown up parties. £5 to hire each set ♻️

23/05/2024

Another weekend and another kit getting ready to go out. This was originally a kit for 20 people which was won as a prize at Rainbow Pre-School's Quiz night. But the winner has increased it to a kit for 50.

21/05/2024

What a dreary day, so how about a photo of the Bright kit from a previous party to brighten the evening up a bit.

20/05/2024

This weekend was looking like a quiet one until 7:50 on Saturday night when I got a message from a customer asking for a party for 30 with side plates, jugs, serving bowls and cutlery too, for a party on Sunday. This is their 4th or 5th hire now, and it's great to see them come back each time.

After a little discussion about side plates (which I don't have), it was decided that the main plates would be made up of the colours green, yellow and blue and they would use grey and white as side plates.

They also hired my new reusable adult sized cutlery which is far less likely to damage the plastic plates and goes really well with all the kits.

It's not always possible to ready a kit at such short notice, either because of availability or because my little ones have had a rough day which means I've had a rough evening and may have already hit the hey some R&R. But if you suddenly decide to throw a last minute get together but don't want the hassle of all the cleaning then ping me a message and if I can help, I will. ♻️

14/05/2024

I'm a bit late posting this one, but here is the weekends kit that went out for hire. 106 pieces of reusable party ware, including bunting and the dinosaur cake toppers.