It’s a Book, No it’s a Card

Design

15 Feb

‘The Lady of the Hundred Dresses’, by S.R. Crockett, 1911. Published by The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

How perfect for me is this birthday card from my sister? She told me she found it many months ago and has been eagerly waiting to give it to me. (I must be conscientious and mention that my niece also assisted in its choice.) I particularly love that the dress the languid-eyed Lady is wearing is striped. I imagine that those long gloves she is wearing are black kid.

I love this series of notecards, having come across them years ago myself, in a quaint Bondi bookshop. The Bodleian Library online shop has many more to choose from, all charming. For the designers of these delightful cards it is most imperative to for once entirely judge a book by its cover! (Scroll down below for more lovelies.)

Krafty birthday wrappingsMy clever sister also wrapped the present in red and cream striped wrapping paper. Printed on plain Kraft paper, it matched the brown self-striped Kraft paper envelope.

What is so enticing about Kraft paper? Somehow it is promising, smacking of all sorts of untold excitement. Perhaps it makes me
think of ‘brown paper packages,
all tied up with string’, and a few more favourite things, such as art materials – paints and pastels and other goodies. And that does make an enchanting birthday present.