Deer Blog Readers,

Here's some more free gift wrap to download and use. A deer pattern this time.




Now, I think I should get bonus points for having created him in PowerPoint. Nope, none of your fancy Photoshop or In Design for this little black duck - though only because I can't afford it and wouldn't know which buttons to press.

Have fun. I did.

xxx scarlett

Free christmas gift wrap

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - in fact it's been looking that way mid-October. So I'm jumping on the festive bandwagon with some free gift wrap featuring this little guy:



It's available for download from my flickr in black, yellow and white.



Just download at full size and print it out on A3 paper.

If you do decide to use it, I'd love to know about it - either comment here or drop me a line. These things honestly make my day (sad old life I lead!)

Enjoy!

xxx scarlett

They won me over (and then some)

nineteen seventy-three that is - the online store I miserably blogged about a couple of days ago during a random gift wrap buying frenzy.

See, despite their superb range of paper, there were a couple of things I wasn't at all happy about. So I got huffy, left the store, shot them an email and ranted on this blog.

But I take it all back. Every single word.

Within just 4 hours (and we're talking different time zones here!), Lucy and Jacqui from nineteen seventy-three:

1. responded to my email
2. offered to roll the paper for me
3. thanked me for my feedback, and
3. told me I could order via email...
4. while their web designers fixed the glitch in the shopping cart.

This is rave-worthy customer service. I wouldn't hesitate to recomend these guys to anyone.

They even updated me today to let me know that now I can put up to 100 items in my cart:

"Just to let you know, the website shop issue has been resolved and you can now fit 100 items into your virtual basket before we ask you to leave the store!

Hope this will be sufficient for your wrapping paper requirements, but any problems do get back to us."

They have been courteous, generous and - so refreshing to see in business - humorous!

Please, PLEASE take a minute to visit their site and see what they have to offer.

I can't speak highly enough of their customer service.


Now, want to see what I bought?

I can't wait until it all arrives! I'm all giddy.

xxx scarlett

I could cry

----------------Update. Problem solved perfectly.----------------
---------------------------Please read PS---------------------------

I really could.

I haven't admitted this publicly before, but I have an unhealthy obsession with gift wrap. I spend a fortune on it each year. I order ribbons and wrap from stores in New York and London because Australia just doesn't have the range.

So why am I getting misty eyed?

Because I discovered nineteen seventy-three today.

It has THE most wonderful gift wrap I have ever laid eyes on.

My heart started beating faster when I saw this Eboy design:



I swooned when I saw they'd turned Catalina Estrada's artwork into gift wrap:



I couldn't help but grin when I saw Jon Burgerman's designs:



And I nearly died when I saw this:

"please note. wrapping paper will be folded twice."

You're kidding, right?

You're going to FOLD my gorgeous lush arty paper?!
Nooooooooo!

I can buy cheap folded paper anywhere. If I'm buying paper for two pounds a sheet, I expect it to be shipped in pristine condition.

So I left the site and went back to work.


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Two hours later I was back at nineteen seventy-three.

I'd figured it out.

Surely I could iron out the creases in the paper (extreme I know, but I did say it was an unhealthy obsession). A gentle setting, a couple of towels to protect the paper - perhaps the lines could even be steamed out somehow.

After all, the paper was irresistible - and unique.

So I went back, started filling my cart and that's when I discovered problem #2 with this gorgeous site.

A full cart. Literally.



What the?

I'd only put 12 sheets in it. That's some tiny cart.

So as stunning as nineteen thirty-seven's product is and as beautiful as their site looks, I didn't buy a thing.

Nope, I left my full cart sitting near the register and wandered off to find a new favourite gift wrap site. If I find one, I'll let you know.

In the meantime, someone hand me a tissue.

xx scarlett

PS. UPDATE
The lovely people at nineteen seventy-three responded to my emails and said they'd be happy to roll my paper. And that the shopping cart is a glitch that they're looking at. So I guess my credit card's about to have a work out.

*happy dance*