covet & lou

i love this site, covet & lou, for it's vintage selection (um, those brass claw feet wall hooks?!) and their odds and ends of goodness...

and i swear, that "wild thing" necklace is for kids, but i secretly want it. ;) enjoy!

inkkit. an eclectic package.

oh what i could do with black sequin ribbon, hot pink tags and gold & glittery triangles. christmas wrapping intoxication...

i first spotted some of what the eclectic one of a kind inkkit's etsy site offers from bri on designlovefest's blog. straight to their site i went. it's sort of a mecca for unusual gadgets for making any kind of packaging, christmas or otherwise, all that more special. personalizing special gifts is as thoughtful as the gift or gift giving combined.

because it's strategic, it's personal & intimate. so...get some of what inkkit has to offer this season of packages, ribbons and bows. ;) make it personal. enjoy!

holiday packaging.

so after eating a ginormous sunday breakfast. wait, i did that on saturday too, yikes. well, after that/those, we sat around discussing the holidays, style, wrapping etc. i love these two holiday packaging ideas. one because i love wrapping with brown kraft paper because it makes anything else you do to it shine.

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and two, it's fun to add in sprigs of greens with colored candycane striped twine, or cut up cheesy postcards or old calendar scenes, fashion them into tags and voila! you've got yourself some rad holiday coverings. ;)

how is your weekend going? i'd love to hear. now, i'm off to digest. again. enjoy!

lovely package.

peek-a-boo window on this not-so rectangular box with fun edges. perhaps a peek at the product would be the selling factor?

i was drawn to the flatness and width of this box and then those beveled edges. not your typical rectangular chocolate box. add a fancy label and voila.

i was smitten with the industrial-ness of this easy box. opening like a file folder. interesting concept with a nice stark logo. certainly makes you want to remove the elastic to investigate the contents.

then there's a company that will cover your boxes in handmade papers, leaving no two alike. i'd have to get the price on that but very creative and oh so pretty.

obviously not the graphic i'd be going for but what a punch this printing adds to a simple sturdy, and earthy kraft box. hmmm...

the simplicity here is elegant. a stamped or imprinted logo...that's it. is it too simple? but again, it's letting the chocolate speak for itself.

classic chocolate box, straightforward but...if you really blow the box away with a great label or sticker you could transform ordinary to extraordinary.

i was really taken with this one. as if you can push each chocolate piece right through the vellum or parchment paper to enjoy. i love the simplicity of the logo on the box as well. not overdone but captures your attention as to what's inside.

inventive shapes, handles and nice bright color grabs your attention.

the natural look of this box is intriguing and adding the paper closure label seals it up nicely.

these handy handles are cute. also the cube shape of the box is different too.

for the past few weeks we have been designing and constructing our new website for the shop. the website will consist of all "pieces" from numerous chocolatiers within this country and abroad. so...with the spanky new website we are creating, we also need to bump up our packaging a little bit without completely breaking the bank as packaging (at least the kind i like!) can be a fortune if you're not careful.

i found a great packaging site full of tons of inspiration called lovely package. i'm considering an earthy approach and going all natural think well made kraft boxes either with a great paper or vellum label or band around it or perhaps a creative stylish sticker. not sure yet. i'd love to have them printed but might be out of my budget. if i had them printed i would want them super subtle with perhaps an imprint of our logo in one color only. if packaging is crisp and stark it is more appealing in my opinion. it lets the product speak for itself. and if your product is fabulous as mine is, then the combination is perfect. let me know your thoughts on a fresh new box for us that you prefer...or do you know of any other great packaging pieces you've seen lately, if so forward me the info for sure :) enjoy!