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Everybody loves to get a nicely wrapped parcel in the mail. With that in mind, I’ve been having a bit of a packaging audit lately - trying to decide what I like and don’t like about the packaging I have, and what is necessary and unnecessary. I don’t want to have too much packaging, but at the same time I want you to feel like you have something special in your hands when you open a parcel from Pretty Birds. So, I’ve been looking at different options.  During my online travels I had StickerDot get in touch about the sticker options they offer for custom...

I recently had a customer buy a ring as a gift for a family member and it made me realise it can be difficult to make sure you can order the correct size - whether it's for yourself or as a gift for someone else. As a maker, I really want to make sure I make it the correct size too, so I don't mind spending the extra time needed to make sure we get it right.So how do we get the right size?In New Zealand (and Australia and Great Britain), we use an A-Z scale to measure ring sizes. In the...