News and photos

Issue No 13:
15 June 2002

• We have had all the invitations in our kits redone! And now there are three ways you can produce the invitations - write them by hand, use the fields or email them to your friends. See below for details.
• We have been reviewing our kits – especially the drama kits – and we have added a lot more detail into the Schedule for each so that the parties will be easier to run.

• Our photo competition winners
• The new invitations

Our photo competition winners

Thank you for all your wonderful entries. We had so many that this time it was very hard to decide the winners. The three winners are:

• Cindy Bond (USA) for a photo from her "Mystery In The Library" party
• Wendy Soubel and John Arnold (USA) for their photo from their "The Love Letter" party
• Shannon Small (Australia) for a photo from her "One Of The Girls" party.
  

We are commencing a new competition with a closing date of 1 August 2002 (see photos.htm for details).

Here is Cindy's winning photo from her board retreat from "Mystery In The Library":

Cindy sent in this feedback:

"Hi Stephanie!

At our recent Board Retreat, we used the dinner mystery, Mystery in the Library, acquired from your website and had a blast! Everyone got in on the act (literally) and wore costumes in line with their assigned character. The suggestions and tips included with the mystery really came in handy and facilitated the flow of the dialog. Everyone is in agreement that this was one of the top features of our retreat and will definitely be included in our 2003 agenda.

I've included some great pictures that were taken. Hope that you enjoy them!"

Wendy Soubel and John Arnold sent in this feedback:

"Thank you so much for "The Love Letter". The girls (all 11 and 12 yrs. old) had a blast! The invitations went out 3 weeks ahead of time, and the girls had great fun planning and talking about their costumes. The excitement was evident the night of the party. Many parents stopped in to see all the characters and to take pictures. I dressed as a maid, and my husband wore his tux and served as a butler.

Act 1 gave the girls an opportunity to get to know their characters. By Act 2, they were really into it---with lots of sobbing, accusatory tones, etc. Act 3 was quite dramatic.

The girls would love to do something like this again. So, we'll be shopping around your site to find another mystery. Again, thanks so much for all the help you provided along the way.

Wendy Soubel and John Arnold

The new invitations

"Mana Media" have created some wonderful invitations for us. Here is a sample of a standard invitation. This one is for a "The Love Letter" party:

Here is an example of the format of the invitation which you can email. This is the one for a "Caught In A Spanish Web" party:

All of the samples on our web site now show the new invitations. The password to open all our samples is: view

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Here is Shannon's winning photo from her "One Of The Girls" party:

Shannon sent in this feedback:

Stephanie,

Thank you so much for providing us with the 'One for the Girls' kit. I hosted a hen's night last weekend and the girls put in a top effort into their costumes and characters and a fantastic time was had by all. The night won't be forgotten!! We can't wait for some more special occasions so we have an excuse to try out some more kits.
Thanks again,

Shannon Small