The Art of the Party Favour

With winter's end finally emerging on the horizon, spring and the endless dinner parties, weddings and social occasions it brings are beginning to press on the temple of fashionable consciousness. If there's one way to welcome the pleasures of midriff baring dresses and long evenings of golden dusky light, it is by taking off your winter hat and inviting the world into your home with a party. And what, dear readers, is more gracious then thanking your guests by introducing them to the reemergence of a lost tradition while giving them the gift of literal good taste?

Ideas for the perfect party favour:

• Pieces of dried lavender tied with hand dyed thread presented in the operculum of a nautilus shell.
  
• Scraps of oak bark with the recipient's name written on the front in silver chalk. Given in an envelope hand made from metallic origami paper.
• A small glass jar filled with excerpts of essential quotations written in cerulean ink. Hint: the smaller the excerpt, the better. Do not be afraid to challenge your guests with one-word snippets from the wisdom of the ages.
• Pouches of French linen filled with shreds of toasted coconut and gold leaf: the confetti of the aristocracy!
• A bouquet of fallen cat whiskers and baby's breath, fastened with strips of cloth cut from last season's winter coat.