The Art of Note Writing ---- for a floral lover

In a world of quick texts and emails, a handwritten note remains a timeless and meaningful gesture. For the floral lover in your life, infusing your note with the beauty and symbolism of flowers can make it even more special. 

If you are a floral lover or are sending a note to one, here are some ideas for. you:

Add a Personal Keepsake

 • Include a Pressed Flower: Tuck a pressed flower inside the card. Maybe you could share why you thought of them or a story about where you picked the flower.

• Use a Wax Seal with a pressed flower: Seal the envelope with wax and press a small flower into it for a charming touch. 

• Include a Packet of Seeds: 

• Share a small packet of flower seeds so they can grow their own blooms.
• Pansies are easy to grow indoors and out, year around. Their name comes from the French word pensée, meaning “thought,” symbolizing the act of thinking of someone.

• Floral Tea:

• Add a sachet of herbal tea, Chamomile or Hibiscus 
• Able to plan ahead: pick & dry your own Chamomile in the summer to have ready for gift giving this winter. 

Send a Willowday Botanical Card

• Choose a Willowday Botanical Print Card | here | Handpicked & made art from botanicals -- from my hands, to your own: these cards can be framed after gifted for a lasting token of affection.  All art in this collection is made with blooms foraged in my own garden or Swedish neighbhorhood. 
• Read more about my botancial process: here) 

Incorporate The Language of Flowers to add depth to your message:

• Pansies (as mentioned above) signify thinking of you
• Roses: Red: Love and passion | Pink: Gratitude and appreciation | Yellow: Friendship and joy | White: Purity and new beginnings
• Leaves: Ivy: Fidelity and friendship | Oak: Strength and endurance  Laurel: Victory and achievement
• Holly and Paper Whites are December birth flowers. Holly: protection or good fortune | Paper Whites: hope & respect

Add a Floral Quote

These are a few favorites 

• “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh
• “Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "All the flowers of the world, remind me of you" *
  

Don’t Stress: It’s the thought and effort that count of a hand written note. 

My father once sent me a letter on a piece of birch bark he had saved from a weekend in the countryside together. (It meant to much to me that I've moved it everywhere with me.)  I’ve sent notes written on a dried leaf & I've read that Jaqueline Kennedy was also famous for including shells & sand in notes to friends who had visited her home by the sea. These moments remind me that originality and authenticity make a note unforgettable + I hope might spark an idea for you, too. 

If you would like to add a floral sentiment rather than classics: “Sincerely,” “Warmly,” or “Yours truly” you might consider: 

• Bloom on
• May your days bloom
• Sending floral wishes 
• "In flore" (Latin) In bloom
• "Fiat lux, fiat flos" (Latin) Let there be light, let there be a flower
• Petals and peace
• Bloom

Your card is only as beautiful as your writing! Use a high-quality pen with black ink on beautiful stationary or cards but, most importantly: send a letter, note or card and when you can add a floral touch, I don't think it ever goes unappreciated. 

 
*this is what I think of when I think of my mother!