The Little Blue Bag

Tony returned home from Dallas this afternoon. He's been traveling for work for a few weeks, so it's good to have him home for a while.

And as luck would have it, he came bearing gifts. Well actually it was just one gift but it was all for me and it is very nice -- beautiful garnet earrings!

The earrings came housed in a simple but elegant black suede box.
The suede box was wrapped in white pearlized tissue paper.
The tissue paper-covered box was nestled inside a blue cardboard box.
The cardboard box was wrapped in matching blue gift wrap.
The gift-wrapped box was tied with a white satin ribbon.
All nestled in a distinctive blue bag bearing the name Tiffany & Co.

Tony calls the earrings an early anniversary present. I think they're a combination "anniversary"/"glad you didn't die" present. Either way, they sure are gorgeous!

Interesting postscript to this story...the blue Tiffany box is stamped "Made in Thailand" and the matching blue Tiffany bag is stamped "Made in China". I guess Tiffany blue is Tiffany blue no matter what part of the world you live in.