Objects are needy too.  Like images and words they have some real difficulty commanding their fullest value without some aid from a helping word or image.  Could you  imagine a tomb stone marking a grave site and upon it there is nothing engraved.  An oddity in the cemetery I would think.  A ruler without numbers or lines wouldn't be too much use either.  Still, it is true that a chair, a box or a screwdriver are examples of ordinary objects that by themselves have some value of their own if you wanted to sit down put something away or pry open a paint can.  But let's think higher value or fuller worth for the moment.  What all of us wish as creative people is to take something (an object let's say) of modest worth and to so present it that it becomes an item of considerably greater value.  Are you willing to do a little experiment.

This object is a box.  It has hinges, a clasp and it has a panel of screen mesh on the top.  Presumably the box could hold something that you could look at through the screen (maybe it is intended as a container for fishing worms or grasshoppers).  Or you could place inside some potpourri so a fragrance could escape and thereby give ambiance to your office work place.

A little bit of laser engraving helps the box including a good quotation by Sir James Barrie the English author who among many other things created the immortal Peter Pan.

Now in order to make the box an excellent gift item for a florist shop to merchandise we place inside the box beautiful dried roses in two or three colors.

Almost done and the next to the last of those final touches is to include in the box a copy of the 1937 London News obituary notice for Sir James Matthew Barrie.

And finally just to add that magnificent little bit of ambiance, and I might add a standard trick of the dried flower trade, one tiny drop of Victorian Rose fragrance oil to one of the dried roses.

The box sells for $19.99 in florists shops and when you want a personal sentiment engraved on the bottom of the box the additional cost is just $5. 

I showed a woman the Peter Pan Rose Boxes in our gift shop yesterday and she made an excellent suggestion.  She told me that at the recent funeral for her father each of the man's children took a rose bud from a floral arrangement which they dried and now keep in a vase by their father's picture.  She said the Peter Pan Rose Box is a perfect place to keep the rosebud.  I never would have thought of that but it is a fine idea.

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