The Party Genie

Send a Festive Greeting with a Difference!

2009-11-15T14:39:00.000-08:00

We’re loving our NEW Christmas Personalised Chocolate Bars, not only are they extremely tasty, you can also personalise them with any message of your choice making them a great way to send a festive message with a difference!

Here’s 10 of our favourite ways to share them this Christmas…

1. Send them with or instead of a Christmas Card to distant friends and loved ones.

2. They make tasty stocking fillers for your children or grandchildren!

3. A lovely Christmas gift for your child to give to their teacher and school friends.

4. Why not send them to your neighbours from your family, you’ll be the talk of the street!

5. A perfect way to say thank you and Merry Christmas to your window cleaner,
milkman, gardener, cleaner etc.

6. If you fill your own advent calendars for your children, they make a fab surprise on Christmas Day!

7. If you run your own business use them as a Business Card at any Christmassy Events you attend, there a great way to get you noticed!

8. Give them out to your staff and clients instead of the usual Christmas Card.

9. If you run any pre-school/children’s activity groups, clubs or classes, give them to the children for Christmas.

10. Or, if your child attends any out of school clubs for example Rainbows, Brownies, Beavers etc they’re a lovely way to say thank you to the leaders.

Halloween already???

2009-09-27T11:46:00.000-07:00

I can't believe how quickly this summer has flown (well that probably has something to do with the fact we came back from our lovely holiday in Spain to find our house had flooded and we had to move into temporary accommodation but that's a whole other story)!

Anyway, our fab Halloween costumes are already selling well, especially our funky Witches costumes, which the girls seem to love! My friend's daughter bought one and she's desperate to wear it already! As well as our Spooky Witches costumes we also have Wizards, Dracula, Pumpkin Princess, Black Cats, Wolves, Owls and many more besides. A number of our Halloween Costumes start from Age 18mths onwards, including our Funky Fairy Witch outfit and cute little Monster costume, so even your tiny tots can dress up this Halloween!

Hope you all have freaky fun this Halloween!!

All change here at Genie Headquarters…

2009-09-22T03:16:00.000-07:00

Over the past year I’ve constantly been monitoring our sales and looking at the direction the business was heading in. Every month I was finding sales were up on our gorgeous Dressing Up Costumes and demand for them was getting more and more, but unfortunately the same could not be said for partyware sales.

After many sleepless nights and numerous chewed fingernails I finally made the scary decision of moving away from children’s partyware and primarily focusing the business on quality Children’s Fancy Dress Costumes & Gifts!

So here we are all fresh and new ‘The Party Genie – Children’s Fancy Dress Costumes & Gifts’ and so far, so good!

Our costumes are still proving really popular and I’m constantly adding new costumes and gifts to the site and I’m always on the look out for new products, especially ones our customers request.

I’m pleased to say we are also continuing with our fab range of Personalised Chocolate Bars and will be adding some new wrappers to the range very soon - watch this space.

Overall it’s been a pretty scary time and whether or not I have made the right decision – only time will tell…eeek!

The Alternative Party Bag!

2009-05-18T03:55:00.000-07:00

I’m forever being asked

‘Are party bags really necessary?’

and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s really down to each parent’s personal choice and there is no real right or wrong answer!

Some mums say to me that coming to the party is a treat in itself but I personally believe that there is no harm in giving each child a little something to take away with them, I believe it adds to the fun and makes the end of the party not so disappointing. It really doesn’t have to cost the earth or be a mass of sugary chewy sweets. However, what I do disagree with is how it has become so competitive as to who had the best and most elaborate party bags and how theirs needs to be even better with even more things in, it really shouldn’t be about that, in my opinion it’s a small treat to take hom e at the end of a nice day – simple!

If you’re worried about the ifs and buts of party bags and are looking for an alternative, take a look at our range of Personalised Chocolate Bar s. For only £1.50 each, they are a really memorable tasty treat. You can personalise them with any message of your choice, so they can even double up as a thank you for coming to the party. This can save you £££’s on party bags and thank you cards!

They are available in a fantastic choice of designs including pirates, balle rina, girlie, trains, football, clowns, fire engines and loads more. You can order them on-line and we can even send you a proof of your wrapper before it goes to print!

Hello from The Party Genie!

2009-05-14T05:01:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my very first blog...

I can’t believe I haven’t done this before, but to be honest I didn’t really understand what they were about but, having spoken to quite a few people ‘in the know’, I think I’m getting there!

Let me introduce myself, I’m Amanda and I run The Party Genie, an online children’s party shop selling all the latest children’s party supplies and gorgeous, top quality dressing up costumes. I have one son who is 5 and he is obviously chief tester of our products especially the boys dressing up costumes! He thinks he works for Party Genie too, he’s always on the look out for new products, he’s forever saying ‘we could sell this on our Party Genie mummy!’ he’s a proper little sales man, he loves helping out at any events we do.

The Party Genie has been trading for 2 years now and is continuing to grow and we are forever adding new products and party ranges to the site. So I’ll use this blog to keep you up to date with all the new party supplies, fancy dress costumes and anything else we add to the site! I’ll also let you know about anything else I think is interesting, news, events and just fun stuff!

I’ll keep it short for now but I’ll be back in touch soon.

Amanda