My daughter will be celebrating her Bat Mitzvah in September. Both for creativity reasons and to save money we are making our own invitations, place cards, sign-in board and centerpieces. Since we're using a bunch of craft supplies in the process, we've been making a point of using the weekly AC Moore and Michael's coupons for the discounts.
Today, we first went to 2 different scrapbook supply stores. We need cardstock to back/trim the invitations. We also wanted to get a corner punch to embellish the corners of the invitations rather than just having plain square corners. We got some good ideas but didn't actually purchase anything.
Then we went to AC Moore and Michael's (they are across the street from each other). As AC Moore, we used a 50% off coupon to get a 24x36 inch canvas to use as the sign-in board. At Michael's, we got adhesive we need for the centerpieces and used a 40% off coupon to get oil pastels, also for the centerpieces.
We saved $12.00 plus tax with the coupons. I figure by going every week, we'll probably end up saving a couple hundred dollars by the time we're done.
More Bat Mitzvah shopping
April 12th, 2008 at 07:27 pm
April 12th, 2008 at 07:42 pm 1208025743
What about the scrapbook stickers that many are using now or going online to see what you can find. You might even find some on ebay. I'm always amazed by what I see for sale there.
April 12th, 2008 at 07:43 pm 1208025792
April 12th, 2008 at 08:42 pm 1208029357
April 12th, 2008 at 09:32 pm 1208032360
homebody - Fortunately, our circulars come in the mail so everybody gets them.
April 13th, 2008 at 03:37 pm 1208097457
April 14th, 2008 at 09:40 pm 1208205610
That's great work you are doing. Being a do-it-yourselfer is how I started in business.
My company has been helping do-it-yourselfers since 1990. Your can visit our main site www.abncparties.com for ideas and a free bar/bat mitzvah planning guide and www.do-it-yourself-centerpiece.com for supplies.
Feel free to e-mail me at judy@abncparties.com if you need any help locating other items.
Judy