The Gingham Apple. mini plush/mini card

The seamstress's daughter Lulu Leloup again skipped school. In the hills she ran into a queen in disguise and carrying a basket of apples, asking for directions to the seven dwarves' cottage. Lulu told the woman to chill out, buy a ticket for the fast train, and head to Brussels, where she can flirt with the Flemish while drinking great beer. First making sure that Lulu was not a princess in hiding, the old queen handed her the sole fruit not dipped in toad's piss and arsenic. Then the lonely widow made her way to the train station humming a Jacques Brel song.

You can keep the apple for yourself, or give it to a friend. It comes with a small card printed with the words, "apple of my eyes." Yes, Lulu Leloup is a little corny.

The Gingham Apple is made of recycled material, and including the leaf measures 2.4 inches or 6 cm high. It is 1.2 inches or 3 cm at its widest point. The leaf is made of denim.

Folded, the card measures 2.5 x 3.2 inches or 6.25 x 8.25 cm. It is made from thick apple-green Clairefontaine card stock.

* This will come packaged in a cardboard envelope, and not in my usual recycled fabric sachet.

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