I would get the fancy little pieces of paper that were like all handmade, whatever, and nice silk ribbons and intricately wrapped them, I didn't have to use tape.
I think about my Auntie Carolyn, a reluctant teacher turned Blue Ribbon principal in Washington DC and how she strived to make sure that her students knew that there was more and better in the world for them.
The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, and instantly there appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened, turned out to contain several pounds of the best Turkish Delight.
Just as suddenly she decided that maybe she would buy some material to add length to her old gray wool dress. And she started to plan how she would sew bright red ribbons along the neckline.
She dressed finer than any lady in Cranford; and we did not wonder at it; for it was understood that she was wearing out all the bonnets and caps and outrageous ribbons which had once formed her stock-in-trade.
In favorable weather, the tender blades push through the ground in ten days or two weeks; then the stalks mount up rapidly, and the long, streamer-like leaves unfold gracefully from day to day.
On and on they flew, over countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscape like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.
At Prada, co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons presented a commercially sound collection of feminine pieces such as prim knits and cardigans and dresses adorned with ribbons and flowers.