Hello and welcome to Black Ribbon Shop. Thank you for stopping by my Etsy Shop. If you like things that are beautiful, personalized and custom made, then you are in the right place. The following poem by Nikki Giovanni is really descriptive of how I view my customers and why I create for you.

though i do wonder
why you intrigue me
i recognize that an exceptional moth
is always drawn
to an exceptional flame

you're not at all what you appear
to be
though not so very different

i've not learned
the acceptable way of saying
you fascinate me
I've not even learned
how to say i like you
without frightening people
away

sometimes I see things
that aren't really there
like warmth and kindness
when people are mean
but sometimes i see things
like fear and want to soothe it
or fatigue and want to share it
or love and want to receive it