This past weekend was my best friend for life's 30th birthday. Her birthday was actually Friday, 6/8/12, but we celebrated down the shore in the 08735, on Saturday night. I am not the best at gift giving, and wanted to give her something she would enjoy. She is really into "preppy" things and also loves her monogram, name, initial, etc. So i hit the web for some searching.
I was looking for presents on etsy.com, where I usually stumble across, and purchase jewelry - I know, BORING! This time, I was searching for something a little more personal, a little more "30", a little more unique. Well, I found the perfect gift, from smallcreatures - Amazing personalized labels for wine bottles.
Wendy (from smallcreatures) was awesome to work with, and her labels made for a great surprise. I had her create three custom labels in black and white (classic), and I ordered 2 of each.
The most painful part of the process was picking out the bottles of wine
at the store. I didn't want to take off the foil covering the cork, so
I searched for bottles that had black silver, or grey foil, with no
vineyard markings. Boy was that hard! I also had to ensure that the
custom labels would fit over the front label, because I didn't want to
take that off. I used hot water and Orange Oil to take off the back
labels, so the back was clean and free from markings.
This is the final result! I loved giving them, and Lauren loved receiving them!
Definately something I would do again for a special occasion.
