Packages In The Mail - ArtsyCraftsy2 And MngoJuice

I was excited to receive not one but TWO packages in the mail today! It's my lucky day!

It's also my lucky day because I am finally recovering from a bad cold. It knocked me out completely yesterday! Ack! I hate bad colds. I was puffing on expired inhalers (I have to remedy that...) and popping Tylenol Colds like an addict. Yuck... Ironically, it was when my mother gave me her magical Chinese herbal tea that I started to get better. Coincidence or is mom's foul tasting medicine really magical? Hm... Apparently Coldfx was based on some magical Chinese herbs too.Well, here is package numero uno! It's from Mngojuice! Nice white envelope...
... nothing special on the backside.
Inside is a nice business card, and a freebie! That's a bottlecap magnet with a honey bee and some sequins on it. Lots of fun :) Thanks, Mngojuice! For those of you that run Etsy shops, I highly recommend including business cards in your mail outs.
Wrapped in a whole lotta paper, were these resin pendants. A raven, a butterfly, and a beluga whale. These pendants are actually a lot bigger than I had imagined.
Next up, is a package from ArtsyCraftsy2. Her trade arrived in a manila envelope.
She decorated the envelope back with a little pressed paper sticker. I rather like it when sellers take the time to decorate their envelope. It shows that they care about the experience the customer has in receiving their purchase.
Inside was a business card and a little black box. I like that she hand-wrote a message to me. That's very sweet. I also like that her pendant arrived in a box. That makes it seem like she values her product and treats it like real jewelery, which it is!
And here is the precious little pendant. This pendant is smaller than I imagined a scrabble tile pendant to be, but it is really quite adorable. ArtsyCraftsy2 actually custom made this for me because I'm a big fan of old-school Alice in Wonderland illustrations. Thank you so much, Artsy Craftsy! It's lovely.

Up next? I have some wonderful new ACEOs to show you. They turned out wonderful!

My Awesome Trade From Sunshine Speckles

A lovely package arrived for me in the mail today. This will be my first real letter written to this address. It's really exciting for me :)Look at the pretty envelope it arrived in! It's actually recycled from an advertisement of some sort, but it's really nice looking and environmentally friendly. I should consider doing something like this. I could save a lot of money on envelopes and make my packaging look better than orangy yellow too! She pasted a pink tag on the front for the address so that it's clearly visible. Clever, clever!
She traced the edges to give the envelope some definition on the back. How ingenious!
Ta da! The inside was super nice too! A lovely note written to me on one of her green, stamped cards. Very nice.
Check out the fabulous peacock feather tags tied with raffia. My goodness it's wonderful! I'm loving how they are wrapped with pretty, wide ribbon too. I'm going to find many uses for that scrap of ribbon later...
Oh gee, these goldfish cards are really something. Oh, and did you notice that I have a windowsill to photograph things on now? It really does light well! I crocheted that little cloth underneath. It was supposed to be a dishcloth, but it was too pretty to use.

I'm really happy with this trade. I'll admit that I wasn't sure what to expect when I started it, but Alison makes the packaging soooo pretty! Christmas gift ideas, anyone? You can find her shop here. It's called Sunshine Speckles because she sends you "little specks of sunshine to brighten your day".

Well, Alison, you've sure brightened mine! Thank you so much!

I hope you all have a wonderful, sunshiney day!