Giving a present in a handmade box adds something extra special to the gift. The boxes I make are very inexpensive but even so many customers have told me they keep the box long after it arrived containing their gift. But the problem in trying to sell handmade boxes via mail order, such as on Folksy, is that they usually have to be sent via parcel post and the ever rising cost of postage inflates the final price a customer has to pay to the point at which it becomes uncommercial. So, I developed a technique to create a range of very slim boxes that can be sent via Royal Mail Large Letter post rather than as a parcel, which almost halves the current postage cost. The same Large Letter can usually even take two boxes thus reducing postage costs.
And, if you're sending your gift to someone else, with care, the package in which your box is sent to you can also be reused for this. Alternatively, an option exists for both decorative box and transporter box to be dispatched to you in an additional outer box.
Please see the Returns & Shipping Policy for Combined Postage for potential postage savings on two or more items ordered at the same time.
However, I will also be featuring larger boxes which will require to be sent via parcel post but these will be available as sets of three to offset postage costs. New designs will be being added regularly. So please visit my shop whenever you have time.

A special gift is always a bit more special if it comes in a beautiful, handmade box

My interest in making boxes first started when, as a volunteer at Penarth Pier Pavilion, some other volunteers and I were asked to help out with retail sales. One rather nice porcelain mug carrying an image of the pier didn't have any packaging and wasn't selling. So I made some boxes using origami techniques out of old events programs that were abut to be binned. The mugs immediately began selling and we even had people who wanted to buy just the boxes. I was hooked.
However, I think I may have discovered the most difficult product to sell of any of the beautiful handmade items on Folksy - empty boxes! This is actually my second attempt at becoming a successful Folksy business, the first never making enough sales to make it worthwhile. So you might think I would have learned my lesson by now - apparently not!
The problem with selling any handmade product, as I'm sure you already know, is that it is very difficult to arrive at a sensible sale price for the amount of work involved. In the case of empty boxes, handmade using only paper and card, this is a particularly difficult problem where even the cost of postage can easily become greater than the cost of the product itself.
If you are a maker of beautiful handmade items on Folksy, the cost of P&P is a very important consideration.So I have developed a box design which can be sent via Royal Mail 'large letter' post, rather than in a parcel. It's a complete, proper box with a proper lid and with both box and lid covered completely in a range of beautiful decorative papers. It comes in its own reusable protective box and the whole thing is well within the 'large letter' dimensions.
At the moment, the box is a square design, but I am now experimenting with other shapes which will still be capable of being sent via 'large letter' post.
I do still have a small quantity of bigger boxes from my previous work but I have decided to concentrate on the 'ultra-thin' designs now.
I am also very happy to look at custom designs and welcome enquiries from other Folksy makers.

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