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Celebratory Gift Tag, a Note and a Sweet.

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Celebratory Gift Tag, a Note and a Sweet.
Group:"At Home with the Georgettes"
Swap Coordinator:Star7Lily (contact)
Swap categories: Handmade 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:October 31, 2019
Date items must be sent by:November 23, 2019
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

It is with the greatest of pleasure that Viscountess Farnsworth of Comely invites the whole of Amberleigh and its surrounds, to take part in our annual Comely Fete.

We encourage farmhands, carters, spinners & weavers, publicans, shepherds, farrowers, milk maids, kitchen hands, shop owners all.
Don your finest smock or embroide Sunday cloth, for all of the district will be looking to hire workers for the upcoming year.

In celebration of this long hoped for, & well attended event, we shall have ale, meat, cheese & pickle, biscuits & bread; fine tasty cakes & tea, ribbons, braid, and a merry confectioners sweet stall! ................................................................................................

The Swap:

We would like for our village members and those other good friends dwelling on the fringe of Georgian good taste, to join us.

We will be making a fancy shipping label or large gift tag 7"x 2 1/2" or an 8"x3” please keep it fairly flat for a journal. Decorate your label (gift tag) in Autumnal glory, you might choose food from a country fete as the subject, Wheat sheaf's or tankard of ale and cheese and straw (rafia), show how you would share the celebration of attending a good 18thC fete if you lived in those times. Do this within the confines of the cardstock rectangle tag. Pierce a hole, and thread with colourful ribbon or braid etc. paper rafia works well. This label might grace a pocket in a journal if you are making one, (see forum), YES it could be a large wide bookmark if you prefer that term measured as above.
or maybe give as a gifting to a beloved friend or colleague.

In your package
Include a piece of sweet confectionery joy for your partner this could be a manufacturers sealed chocolate bar/disc shaped or boiled sweets, or lollys if in Australia, it does not have to be period related. (do look at their profile to see if they can consume such things, if they are diabetic or have alergies etc, if so, substitute with a tea or coffee or drinking chocolate sachets or something else they would like instead.)

Also Include a short note to your partner, (perhaps from a character who was hired at the fete, or one who did the hiring etc, have some fun (but it is not essential if you are not inclined to play act).

So to define clearly:

  • 1 large label/gift tag decorated in the theme of an Georgian autumn harvest celebration.

  • A piece of sealed confectionery or its substitute as described above.

  • A short note of good cheer

Please join with me in the celebration of Sweet JOY.

Lady Caroline Farnsworth

Any questions please ask below or pm @Star7Lily

Discussion

Elenamarie 10/14/2019 #

Sadly, I googled Celebratory label, Regency Era Celebratory Label, Georgian Regency Celebratory label, and I'm not able to find any information on exactly what this type of label is nor how it was used during the era. Is there another term for Celebratory label? Is this a food label to go with our sweet of choice we are sending? Or is "label" a loose term and not meant to describe an actual product of the era? Is this really just a bookmark size cardstock that we decorate? Sorry, that I am desiring more clarification. I just want to make sure I understand what kind of label this is...as a label by definition is a tag of a sort placed on an object which tells what the object is...so what am I labeling? And my apologies, I am an English major and my brain gets wrapped up in the meaning and details of words. I do not mean to agitate others by what might be perceived as me being either dense or difficult, as I wish to be neither of those.

Star7Lily 10/15/2019 #

Oh dear Elena, there is no such thing, I invented it, just a gift tag from a shipping label sized tag. Maybe they do not use them anymore in the States. Sorry, I have reworded some of the swap for better understanding. If there is still confusion, please let me know. Jane

Elenamarie 10/15/2019 #

Ah, okay. I understand now! Thank you Jane!

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