How To Package An Order To Get a WOW From Your Customer

I get my mail at the post office and when I find a key in it, that means I have a package in one of the lockers. I was delighted to open the locker and see this pretty hand painted box covered in sparkling glitter and decorated with hand drawn stickers. It was from Sea Willow Herbs on Zibbet. 

The box is decorated on all sides and I hope the glittery paint shows up in the photos. I took photos of all sides of the package.

Sweet huh? A lot of work into that packaging job. 

THen I opened it, carefully, and it was just as pretty inside with blur tissue paper, that I can reuse. I love packaging I can reuse.

Under the pretty tissue paper my order was safely tucked inside a bubble wrap envelope that I can also reuse, 2 business cards that match everything perfectly, and handmade, hand painted thank you card. 

Inside the bubble wrap bag was this. Three lip balms with hand painted tags and matching fluffy ribbons, presented in a way that they make a nice gift for someone. Three lip balms could be just stuck in a padded envelope and dropped in the mail. But if it was done like that, then it wouldn't get a "WOW!" 

So if you're looking for an affordable gift and you want it sent directly to your friend, mother, great aunt, godmother or a nice teenager you know, you now know how your gift will arrive if you order anything from Sea Willow Herbs on Zibbet.

Sea Willow Herbs products are made with only 100% Organic ingredients and she even gathers the herbs herself by wildcrafting in a sustainable way.

Always a fun day when packages arrive

I was perusing the Zibbet Community the other day and saw this bookmark posed on the cover of Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral.

It caught my eye because this is one of the books on my very long list I want to read. I've been trading books on paperbackswap since 2006. I have mailed out 208 books and received 187 books.

I commented where the photo was posted and said that I should get that bookmark for reading that book. I went to her shop "All About the Buttons" to buy the bookmark, but got distracted by all the other wonderful things in her shop. I decided what I really needed was dish cloths. She makes some really nice 100% cotton ones. I ordered the dish cloths instead and told her I needed those more than a bookmark because I generally just use a piece of paper, the slip that comes with the paperbackswap books.

I took Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral off the bookcase. Okay not "the" bookshelf, but "one of" the bookcases. (More confessions: I have 8 bookcases in this house crammed with books.)

I brought the book to the "reading room" and began reading. When I stopped, I realized there was no paper slip in the book so I used the other kind of paper found in the "reading room."

When I opened up the package from All About the Buttons, not only did I find the exquisite dish cloths, but a wonderful surprise was also enclosed.....a bookmark.....

.....with a cute little card that said, "Enjoy! Slips of paper doesn't cut it! Barbra" Wasn't that sweet?

All About the Buttons makes all kinds of things from clocks to cozies and everything has buttons on it. If you need some nice gifts to have on hand, wouldn't these wash cloths make a a pretty package. Look how nice she presents them,

Packages to ship afar? How Wildfire Pottery Does It

Getting the mail at the post office today was exciting because a package arrived from Nova Scotia. I had purchased one of the Zibbet dishes made by Wildfire Pottery.

I am going to keep this wonderful little dish that says, "I Zibbet. Do you?" right by my computer. I just had to have one because do I ever zibbet!!!  I live and breathe Zibbet from the time I get up about 7 AM until midnight, sometimes 1 AM. So I can look at this dish and answer the question, "yep, you bet I do!"

If you've been considering buying a work of art from Wildfire Pottery, rest assured that no matter how far it has to travel, it will get to you safely.  Sarah Beck should get an award for packaging.

The box it came in:

What I saw when I opened it. A nice brochure and pretty tissue paper:

I read the brochure, then flipped back the pretty tissue and came upon more nice things:

It was a personal handwritten note thanking me:

So what was inside? The dishes were inside yet another nice little box. First I came upon a special gift of a little flower dish.  Wrapped in bubble wrapped to keep it safe:

Here are my 2 dishes that arrived safely:

If you want your own Zibbet Dish you can be sure it will get to you quickly and safely. And now look at all the great packaging material I have to reuse when I am sending out packages:

Thanks Sarah, for a wonderful shopping experience on Zibbet.