Ahhh. The last day of my "Julie Andrews" curse. (Let's just hope Dick Van Dyke doesn't start up with Chim-Chim-Cher-ee!)
I present to you: Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String!
These are the kind of packages my grandmothers would send with gifts, cards, clothes, puzzles, coloring books, dolls, and homemade cookies in them. To keep things steady, they would pop up a pan of popcorn and use that to fill in the voids. When you opened the package, you saved the string, carefully folded the paper for later use and inhaled a big whiff of popcorn! (I wonder if anyone ever used real peanuts?)
Thank you, everyone from Instagram and who commented through email and here on my blog with great ideas from "My Favorite Things". At the risk of going insane with that tune in my head 24-7, there actually are quite a few of those that I just may end up coming back to before the end of Inktober!
I love the idea of popcorn instead of the packing peanuts. Love the sketches of the little bags that surely had wonderful fun treats inside.
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