Birthday invitation

Home Run

Scorekeeping is abandoned in the third, and the hot dogs go on the grill at eleven.

Part of the TinselLux™ collection: invitations in stitched leather, tufted velvet, linen and satin.

The material is the card: linen with a visible weave, velvet with a nap, leather with its grain. It costs the same as every other invitation.

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This birthday invitation belongs to a morning at a rented diamond. The field is yours for two hours, the bases go down before anyone arrives, and the batting order is written on a paper plate taped to the chain-link. Kids turn up in mismatched caps and whatever shoes they own. Every batter is pitched to until they connect, and the right fielder has been told what to do about it.

By the third inning the score is a matter of opinion. The grill goes on behind the backstop, hot dogs come out in foil, and the game pauses for as long as the food lasts. Cake is cut on the bleachers, gifts ride in a wagon, and one guest slides into second with no runner behind him and no reason at all. The dirt leaves with everybody.

What goes on it

Every line replaceable

The wording on this card

Step up to celebrate
COOPER BELL
Saturday, June 19, 2027 · 11 AM
THE BALLPARK · 30 Dugout Rd, Pine Ridge, MN
Hot dogs at eleven.

Every line of the wording is an example, and yours to replace. The title is painted into the artwork. Type your own and it is drawn again with your words.

What to actually tell people

Book the field, not the park Call the parks department or the local league and reserve the diamond by name, with a start and end time. Ask two things while you have them: whether the infield gets dragged that morning, and whether a grill is allowed on site.
Bring more bats than you think Two lighter bats and a batting tee keep the line moving when a six-year-old needs eleven pitches. A bucket of a dozen balls saves somebody jogging to the fence between every hitter.
Feed them before the last inning Set the hot dogs for the middle of the party, not the end, and run the folding table behind the backstop where it is out of the throwing lanes. Buns, foil and a bag of ice go in the car first.
The dugout is the only shade A diamond at eleven in the morning has no cover anywhere else, so put the water cooler on the bench and sunscreen by the gate. Pack a towel per kid for the ride home, because the infield dirt is coming with you.

Start from this one

The artwork
Keep this one, or describe your own party and get artwork drawn for it.
The wording
Every line on this card is an example, the painted title included. Change all of it; the design holds.
Sending
By text, from your own number. Guests open a link. Nothing to download.
The price
One credit for the invitation. Six guests or sixty, the number does not move.