printing and packing

i've been busy last weekend! punching and printing hundreds of little paper sticks, sorting them, making little vellum bags and printing labels. promo bags that i send out with the orders. the little bags contain three handprinted paper stickers, in many different combinations. collect them all !! ;D

then i printed labels for my new product, the little paper crane greeting! i used to send out bags like this with bigger orders or for customers who already ordered several times. i also made some for dawanda promotion. the response was great, so i decided to make some altered version for my shop:



i am folding paper cranes for years now, mostly for no special reason or purpose, besides the few birdswarm installations i did some years ago. so almost every day, the basket with little cranes gets bigger and bigger, and i'm very happy i finally found a suitable way to pass them on.

MAERZBLUETEN//charms + jewels

hi, my name is busy bee and i can't keep my hands still !

allright allright, i did it again: the little girl inside of me has to admit, that she has a slight weakness for all things GLITTER, not as bad as mariah carey (yak!), but .... some shimmer is just nice!
so yeah, i made this new earrings and bracelets with the pearls my sweet sister conny gave me for last years christmas. at night, when all the print work is done, i put out my fancy boxes full with shiny treasures, gold, pearls, beads and whatnot. its fun! this time i even made extra stamps for creating a matching gift card, so its a all inclusive, yet very exclusive package. every little lucky charm bracelet is delicately wrapped in a handfolded japanese orisue, a classic origami box, which was traditionally used for keeping the precious silk threads for the kimonos.
i have put those on my dawanda shop, there is category called "Maerzensangelegenheiten" whcih means something like " all things March" (!?), and i thought they fit in theier perfectly!