The Sewing Mom

In preparation for our craft show in July, I’m looking at promotional items, again.

One thing I’ve been considering is what type of packaging to use when someone makes a purchase. I’ve always remembered one of my favorite gift shops that I used to frequent and they always placed my purchased in the prettiest paper bag. Located on the paper bag was an adhesive label with the store’s name and address printed on it using Digital Printing so it looked very professional. These were custom labels and I’m sure they had to be ordered in large quantity, but for a store that size it was a great idea.

I may be able to print a smaller quantity myself as I’m not quite ready for such a big order. If I were doing wine bottles or food packaging, I’d have a large enough quantity to justify the order.

Do you notice what packaging your purchases come in?

I decided to go do something different today and try to forget about my head hurting and sinus problems.  I met my friend at the mall, something I haven’t done in 6 months, and we enjoyed a nice lunch in the food court and some much needed retail therapy.  I bought myself 2 pairs of sandals, and some new under garments at a famous “secret” lingerie store.  Definitely not something I do on a regular basis!

After leaving the mall, I swung by the fabric store looking for frog buttons.  I didn’t find any, but they fat quarters on sale so I bought several to make fabric building blocks.   I even found a new gnome for our front yard, do you know how difficult it is to find a decent gnome?!

Anyway, while my head still hurts, mentally I feel much better.