Spike update, ribbons and wedding stationery

Firstly, it looks as if Spike the hedgehog might have hibernated. He trotted along several times a night over recent weeks, gorging on his food (topped up with cashew nuts - his food of choice for sure) but for the past few nights not a sign of him! He's a big hedgie so we have to hope he has hibernated (big hedgies will often hibernate as early as September) and that he hasn't been out playing with the traffic :( Fingers crossed here.

Secondly, a big 'Eeek'!! I'm going to be making a load of wedding stationery for my friend's son and his fiancee - so long as they like what I can come up with. I know that Jess peeks at this blog so I hope she won't be put off by me saying it's quite daunting. I can do production lines OK but want Jess and Stuart to have a choice of options so this week coming I'll be putting together some samples, mood boards (get me!!) and so on ready to show them. All I know so far is that 'aubergine' is the main colour so not a lot to go on as yet.

So, for the samples, I've managed to track down aubergine card, mulberry paper and such for layering or whatever but I had the devil's own a bit of a job finding aubergine ribbon. Eventually I stumbled across The Ribbon Shop and the wide range of colours they have included aubergine! They do a good range of ribbons and their double sided satin ribbon comes in umpteen widths. I ordered a few 1 metre lengths of the satin ribbon in different widths plus some aubergine organza too (err, some other ribbons for me also fell into my shopping basket!). But, in the great scheme of things it was a very small order for them.

The order was placed on Wednesday and on Thursday the most scrumptious (today's big word) little parcel arrived, less than 24 hours after I placed the order. In my haste I didn't keep the beautifully striped outer wrapping with a gorgeous oval cream and gold address label on but just look at this:

This is the gold box, carefully lined with tissue paper and a hand written receipt for the order.

And this is what lay inside the tissue paper. Folded, and not squashed, ribbons - each carefully tied with ivory ribbon and a delicious little hand written tag describing the ribbon and the length provided. Oh boy, someone takes real pride in their service and I'm still opening the box now and then to peek at such pretty contents.

As you'll probably know, I adore ribbon and this is such an amazing change from ribbon being tightly folded or even stuffed into little polythene bags when it arrives in the post!

I just thought I'd share this with you - the art of beautiful packaging and presentation lives on in The Ribbon Shop for sure and I for one will be looking there first when I want more ribbons. You can never have too many say I!

Hope your weekend is going well and thank you for calling by!

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