A parcel cannot do anything about the reason it was sent. What it can do is turn up, open easily, and say that somebody was thinking of them on an ordinary Wednesday afternoon. That is the whole basis on which this page was chosen.
Orders start at £20 — smaller pieces travel with company.
Delivery is free on every order.
The choosing, done for you
When you cannot tell what they are up to, a composed box is the honest answer.
The Pocket lists what is inside it. The Bud and The Bloom stay unrevealed until they are opened, packed by hand, with room for a card carrying your words in our handwriting. Nothing inside carries a price.
Something to do with your hands
The part nobody sends anything for is the boredom. These arrive complete, the design printed and the threads counted, and they can be put down mid-stitch and picked up four days later without losing the place. The mini hare is an evening; the other two are longer.
More in Petalby Crafts.
Scent, with nothing to light
A room somebody has spent a week in starts to smell like a room somebody has spent a week in. These change that without a flame, a switch or anything to remember: reeds standing in a bottle.
More in Petalby Home.
For the bath, whenever they get to it
Not everybody who is unwell wants a bath, and the ones who do rarely want one on the day the parcel lands. Salt keeps. A soap flower keeps. Both will still be there in a fortnight, which is the argument for sending them rather than something that wilts by Friday.
From Petalby Spa, where the bath and body pieces come from UK wholesale and makers already on the GB market.
Within reach of the bed
Three things that work at arm’s length: a mist and an eye mask boxed together, hydrogel patches that go on cold, and a hand cream in the size that lives on a table rather than in a bag.
Self-care gift boxes holds the composed version of this shelf.
What a parcel cannot do
Nothing on this page is a medical product and none of it is sold as one. We make no claim about anybody’s health, and if what you want is something that does, a pharmacy is the right shop and this is not.
Two things are worth checking before you send. Scent is unwelcome on some hospital wards and around some people entirely, so ask first if the parcel is going to a ward. And somebody very unwell may not be up to opening anything at all, in which case the smallest thing here is the kinder choice.
Before you choose
If it has been a harder stretch than one illness, gifts for a hard year works on the same principle. Thank you gifts is for the other half of it, the people doing the driving and the shopping. The Journal essay on the case for a smaller, better gift is the argument behind most of this page.
Composed and packed by hand
Something to open
Composed and packed by hand in the UK. Nothing that needs answering, and 30 days to change your mind. Delivery is free on every order.
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