Flower Happy

I have been trying to find some of these vintage paper flowers for years. I remembered them from when I was younger, and I just think they're so pretty!

You cannot even imagine how delighted I was to find two packages of them at Mountain Treasures in Sonora! And they were very inexpensive, too. I had seen some on Etsy way back before I went back to work, and I couldn't afford to get them. When they sold, I was so bummed.
 And now I have at last found some of my own:

I did feel that they were waiting there just for me. Who else would appreciate them as much as me?
 Nobody.

Here they are in a Helen Gallagher-Foster House catalog from 1968:

This is the back of the package:

Vintage Takahashi.
 Flower LOVE.