Party bags for grown ups women

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I'm having a 4th birthday party for Randomcat on Valentines day for my single female friends.

I thought I'd do party bags from him to the guests... what should I put in them?

I'm learning to sew so think I'll make the bags out of fabric.

I'm thinking chocolate, lip balm, beauty goodies, heart goodies, maybe a tiny covered notebook... not sure how many are coming yet but it will only be about half a dozen of us (as most of my friends aren't 'single and female' or 'cats')

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Lip balm, travel size beauty goodies - I've noticed some primarks having a beauty bit full of cheap little goodies and packs of spare tights that come in a little pack to fit in your handbag. Face masks, fluffy socks?

Aurora

Condoms. With a 'Keep Protected' sign, and yes, everything else, like Lip Balm and little beauty stuff sounds good!

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Mini bullet vibrators? :')

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In bridesmaids they gave out puppies...

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I was at a wedding recently where the favours on the tables were minature bottles of Baileys (for the girls) or whiskey (for the boys).

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Chocolate willies

**helen**

Such a cool and generous idea Randomgirl

Sounds like you've got it all stitched up - the idea in itself is such a cute one that I reckon your girlfriends will really appreciate all the goodies you've mentioned.

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grace wrote: »

In bridesmaids they gave out puppies...

maybe I should give out kittens!!!!!!!! Only joking.

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That's amazingly generous! I know I'd be happy with a little packet of cake, but I'm easily pleased...

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Sugar mice!

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I want to come to the party

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Lil-Lets, batteries, chocolate, headache pills, handbag, K D Lang CD, booklet 'exploring bi-sexuality', dental dams

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piccolo wrote: »

ThatI know I'd be happy with a little packet of cake

16" worth more like

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Think I'm going to personalise them. One of the girls coming only eats white food (white protein specifically) so couldn't put choc in hers. Also candles, I have some Clarins freebies (GWPs - lots of them), might paint some small paintings (postcard sized), I ordered some little notebooks that I'm going to cover in fabric for them. I was also thinking about giving them each a poem as I recently bought some poetry anthologies so poems about friendships and feminist poetry. I might put some cat grass seeds in the white-food-only girl's as she has a cat (instead of chocolate).

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**Angel** wrote: »

Condoms. With a 'Keep Protected' sign, and yes, everything else, like Lip Balm and little beauty stuff sounds good!

My only condom in the bedside drawer has now expired lol! Says a lot about my love life.

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Fiend_85 wrote: »

I want to come to the party

but you don't qualify! It's single ladies only.

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Miss_Riot wrote: »

Sugar mice!

I'm actually quite scared of all things mice related following mouse-gate (do you remember that thread from years ago?) but maybe some other old fashioned sweets.

I ordered the fabric to make the bags today.

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Randomgirl wrote: »

I'm actually quite scared of all things mice related following mouse-gate (do you remember that thread from years ago?) but maybe some other old fashioned sweets.

I ordered the fabric to make the bags today.

You can find sugar pigs in lots of sweet shops too

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Randomgirl wrote: »

One of the girls coming only eats white food (white protein specifically)

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RubberSkin wrote: »

Not that sort of white protein :rollseyes:

She eats tofu, plain chicken, soya milk and one other thing but I can't remember what. She also drinks tea... tea bags! yes tea bags for everyone.

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Randomgirl wrote: »

tea bags! yes tea bags for everyone.

I was about to suggest that! Don't steal my idea!

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ninaballet wrote: »

I was about to suggest that! Don't steal my idea!

tea!!!!!!!!! we tea.

The fat quarters arrived today so going to make a start this afternoon.

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MUA, in Superdrug, do make up from £1. The £1 nail varnishes, lipsticks and lipglosses are actually quite good. Have a look at MUA's website https://www.muastore.co.uk/

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So I did the sewing at the weekend, they look good. I will post a picture when I have done the tags. However I have given myself really bad tendonitis / rsi from the sewing machine so now I am in a lot of pain and can't hold a pen / sew / knit /paint etc and it's very swollen. So don't think I'll be able to do the notebooks this time around or the poems, unless I photocopy them but that isn't really the same. The bags look very cute though

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So in the end I photocopied the poems I wanted to use, giving them one each. I cut them out, mounted them on red card and stuck red buttons on them (as I love buttons).

The poems I chose were these ones:

Love and Friendship



Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree --
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most contantly?
The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who wil call the wild-briar fair?
Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He may still leave thy garland green.


Emily Jane Brontë

Us Two



Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.

"What's twice eleven?" I said to Pooh.
("Twice what?" said Pooh to Me.)
"I think it ought to be twenty-two."
"Just what I think myself," said Pooh.
"It wasn't an easy sum to do,
But that's what it is," said Pooh, said he.
"That's what it is," said Pooh.

"Let's look for dragons," I said to Pooh.
"Yes, let's," said Pooh to Me.
We crossed the river and found a few-
"Yes, those are dragons all right," said Pooh.
"As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.
That's what they are," said Pooh, said he.
"That's what they are," said Pooh.

"Let's frighten the dragons," I said to Pooh.
"That's right," said Pooh to Me.
"I'm not afraid," I said to Pooh,
And I held his paw and I shouted "Shoo!
Silly old dragons!"- and off they flew.

"I wasn't afraid," said Pooh, said he,
"I'm never afraid with you."

So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True,
It isn't much fun for One, but Two,
Can stick together, says Pooh, says he. "That's how it is," says Pooh.


Alan Alexander Milne

and a couple of others that I can't find online.

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I love Us Two, but I think my favourite A.A. Milne is The King's Breakfast

The King asked
The Queen, and
The Queen asked
The Dairymaid:
“Could we have some butter for
The Royal slice of bread?”
The Queen asked
The Dairymaid,
The Dairymaid
Said, “Certainly,
I’ll go and tell
The cow
Now
Before she goes to bed.”

The Dairymaid
She curtsied,
And went and told
The Alderney:
“Don’t forget the butter for
The Royal slice of bread.”

The Alderney
Said sleepily:
“You’d better tell
His Majesty
That many people nowadays
Like marmalade
Instead.”

The Dairymaid
Said, “Fancy!”
And went to
Her Majesty.
She curtsied to the Queen, and
She turned a little red:
“Excuse me,
Your Majesty,
For taking of
The liberty,
But marmalade is tasty, if
It’s very
Thickly
Spread.”

The Queen said
“Oh!”
And went to
His Majesty:
“Talking of the butter for
The Royal slice of bread,
Many people
Think that
Marmalade
Is nicer.
Would you like to try a little
Marmalade
Instead?”

The King said,
“Bother!”
And then he said,
“Oh, dear me!”
The King sobbed, “Oh, deary me!”
And went back to bed.
“Nobody,”
He whimpered,
“Could call me
A fussy man;
I only want
A little bit
Of butter for
My bread!”

The Queen said,
“There, there!”
And went to
The Dairymaid.
The Dairymaid
Said, “There, there!”
And went to the shed.
The cow said,
“There, there!
I didn’t really
Mean it;
Here’s milk for his porringer
And butter for his bread.”

The Queen took
The butter
And brought it to
His Majesty;
The King said,
“Butter, eh?”
And bounced out of bed.
“Nobody,” he said,
As he kissed her
Tenderly,
“Nobody,” he said,
As he slid down
The banisters,
“Nobody,
My darling,
Could call me
A fussy man—
BUT
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!”

(Taken from this page. A. A. Milne, “The King’s Breakfast” from The Complete Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Copyright © The Trustees of the Pooh Properties reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Limited, London.)

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piccolo wrote: »

I love Us Two, but I think my favourite A.A. Milne is The King's Breakfast



(Taken from this page. A. A. Milne, ?The King?s Breakfast? from The Complete Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Copyright © The Trustees of the Pooh Properties reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Limited, London.)

I like that poem too. I was going for poems about friendships though as a theme.

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Randomgirl wrote: »

I like that poem too. I was going for poems about friendships though as a theme.

I know, I wasn't contradicting you, it just popped into my head

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piccolo wrote: »

I know, I wasn't contradicting you, it just popped into my head

I got the IF anthology recently and it has lots of fabulous poems from my childhood in there and others.

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Randomgirl wrote: »

I got the IF anthology recently and it has lots of fabulous poems from my childhood in there and others.

That sounds excellent. I love Poems on the Underground, too