Tuesday 17 May 2011

The Way to a Man's Heart...


The Bride-to-Be's specially chosen paragraph.
(if you can read it!)


Ah yes, classic Mills & Boon. 

So, at this hen weekend (see previous post), every hen was given a goodie bag full of Love & Romance themed pressies.  For added fun, the plain gift bags were customised by decorating them with cut out passages and tag lines from a couple of rather on-point Mills and Boon novels. I had the job of selecting the juicy bits, the cringey bits and the plain funny bits. Paragraphs, one liners and phrases.  I sat with my chosen novels, a glass of wine and a pair of scissors.  I'm not sure if if was the wine or the sheer nature of the writing but I found myself shaking with laughter everytime I caught a glimpse of my favourite chosen phrases. It has been years since I last read a Mills & Boon (not since I was a teenager, and struggling to find something to read while on holiday, discovered my Nanna's specialist fiction novel collection..).  I had to take regular time outs so that I didn't become 'numbed' to the evocative language and heady metaphors.  I didn't want any of these  lines losing their special magic.
The next day I decided on a simple bag customisation design involving a heart-shaped passage for the centre of each bag, and a tag line positioned on the lower back.  The Bride To Be (TBTB) had an amusing time reading each customised bag and felt that each one, with its own theme & level of humour, lent itself very nicely to being matched with a particular hen, for full amusement impact.
 After noting TBTB's giggles & 'euw' reaction on reading all these worded gems, I couldn't very well leave her out.  I secretly made her her own Mills & Boon customised gift bag and matching card.  There were just too many juicy bits to ignore, to be left on the cutting room floor.  No. That would not do.

The Bride-to-Be's Card & envelope design. Was prettier than it looks in photos!

As TBTB enjoys baking (shelves are full of Nigella et all cook books) and is a great hostess,  I thought she would enjoy the dessert-themed snippet I chose to grace the front of her card. (See picture)
It's a shame I didn't take pictures of each of the bags for the passages and tag lines, but I remember them fondly, and I know they have done their job, worked their magic.  The bags received a good mix of reactions from the hens and that is enough for me.  Anyway, there are plenty more where they came from...


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