Exotic Packaging: Potter & Moore Scented Geranium

The scented geraniums are quite difficult to spot on this pretty packaging. What you mostly see are pansies and sweet peas. There are roses too, and a butterfly - or is it a moth?

I wonder if Potter & Moore used this same design for sweet pea soap and rose bath grains? I don't remember.

Paper Bags: Under the Golden Gate

 

A beautiful soft paper bag brought from San Francisco this week by the Dutch taste tester.

Very handsome indeed. Sadly not mine to keep.

Exotic Packaging: Crabtree & Evelyn Tomato Soap

I remember this soap because not only is the packaging lovely, but the soap itself was tomato-shaped. Brilliant. 

Exotic Packaging: Farrow & Humphreys Fine Soap Elderflower & Primrose

Fine soap with natural extracts from elderflower and primrose.

Paper Bags: Haddon Hall

Two paper bags from Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. 

You can't tell here but the red one is the right size for postcards, the white one quite a lot larger.

The wild boar is the heraldic device for the Vernon family, and the peacock for the Manners family.

These two families have stamped the whole building with their mark for centuries. 

Ceilings (plaster and painted), downpipes, the window glass, even the cottage garden topiary features boars and peacocks. Now the boars and peacocks are on paper bags too.

The Manners family still lives in this wonderful building which dates from the 11th century.

Exotic Packaging: Caswell-Massey Black Currant Orchard Soap

My mother collected soap packaging. So I am going to post her collection in no particular order.

I remember buying a mixed box of soaps as a present for her in New York City in 1993. 

The soaps came wrapped in tissue paper inside the cardboard box.

And if I remember correctly it was very nice soap.

Exotic Packaging: picture hooks!

This packaging made me laugh out loud!

I use a lot of picture hooks. 

And round here they come prepackaged in 4s or 5s and really, they aren't cheap. 

So I finally gave in and bought a load online.

Here's my package of little picture hooks.

Yes, these little plastic hooks have an organic taste, or possibly a natural & conventional taste!

What does that mean?

I wonder what usually comes in this Queen's Garden packet?

I guess this is a really interesting case of someone repurposing packaging.

Actually, it works very well because these little picture hooks are spiky and need something tough to keep them from escaping.