Hello non-existant swath of blog readers. I fell off of the internet bandwagon this week- whenever I concentrate on something away from the internets everything else just stops moving. Thats okay though... because today is boyfriend's birthday! A day of days! He is twenty-eight years old! I've scheduled this post instead of publishing it immediately, it should post around 6pm when we're eating dinner/he receives his final gift.

I've decided to stagger them throughout the day. Last year, he had a rough day the day prior and I came over and just swarrrrmed him with things. Well, thats not accurate: last year I gave him three small glass bottles (1" tall), each delivering a clue to the next station. The first was in a 'book box'- its a box disguised as a row of books... and when he opened it some small (3") balloons floated out. At the bottom was the first clue, which pointed to the snack drawer where I'd hidden a glass container filled with home made peanut butter balls. The third pointed toward the bookshelf and amongst the books was a new, 4" tall book with a recess cut into it to house the three little note jars. Oh, and in the third jar there was a note talking about how stellar he is.

Then I gave him real presents. It was a lot, though, since he'd just woken up and was like: brrrrip? oh, im a detective. coffee?


Today is going to follow much of the same pattern, at least as far as... well, small-things go. A while ago I found The World's Smallest Postal Service online, probably via Pinterest. I nearly bought a little box to be mailed to him (I do this a lot. ok.) but decided not to for whatever reason. Then, earlier this month, I found out that the creator of the superfriggingcute WSPS got picked up by Chronicle Books and they now make an excellent little kit complete with stickers to act as wax seals and tiny stamps and news paper and I LOVE SMALL THINGS.

Seriously, those small balloons & tiny glass jars were not a new deal for me.
Everything is cute when it is smaller.
Just look at people and cats. #BABIES

Anyway, throughout the day he'll receive a series of letters- each tiny one being either a cute quip, a piece of trivia about being 28/the number 28, one is about the year he was born, and others just involve the gift associated with the letter. Each has a tiny drawing of a bee on it instead of his name-- I call him Bee/Boyfriend on the regular, its one of those Couple Things.


So, relating to that, I grabbed him a small jar of fresh honey, a little bee post card, and a bee lollypop (iwantit) from Follow the Honey a precious little shop in Cambridge. Without getting too far into it, he'll be getting a pile of little things he'll like/use. My favourite little thing is a small, hand-made wooden top with a ring. Since we're going to dinner with a group at The Top of the Hub, the giftbox has a 'You're the Tops!' note with it. #punny


It should all come together nicely. At the very least, Macy's white/red + the postal service's white/red/blue scheme w/ brown make for a cute little set up. I like when stuff matches.

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