I went through a serious Martha Stewart phase in the 1980s...so much so I even bought an electric glue gun so I could apply dried flowers to all matter of things in order to achieve that country look in my New York Eastside apartment...While I cannot remember how to make a flower wreath, I do remember that Martha had a gift wrap room in her house.Now while a gift wrap room is not on the top list of priorities for any extra space we have, I love the idea of a room filled with beautiful wrapping paper, bows, ribbons, perfectly sharpened left-handed scissors and a wonderful assortment of gorgeous gift cards. At Christmas, I am the type of girl that comes up with a gift wrap 'look' and all the presents are wrap-coordinated (don't laugh). Problem is that gift wrapping is just so ungreen (and outrageously expensive)...While the best things would be to leave everything unwrapped - where is the fun in that?
So here is my solution...I like to call it Wrapping Bling...
- Buy plain brown wrapping paper from the newsagent ($2.50 for an enormous roll)...figure there is no bleaching, dyes, etc. (can't find any plain recycled wrapping paper and the printed recycled paper costs a fortune)...
- Save every ribbon, button, decoration that passes through your doors...
- Ask at second hand shops for any lose baubles or buttons (aren't these ones divine? They are from Tara Frey's gorgeous blog)....
- Save old fabrics and lace for ribbons and beautiful photos from magazines
- Buy beautiful, recycled gift tags from etsy shops like Percival Road Designs....
- Then let the 5 year old kid in you out and create some serious Wrapping with lots of Bling.
I told you I am a repressed Arts and Crafts girl at heart....but I bet you you would love one of my packages...xxx
Photo courtesy of Tara Frey
5 comments:
yes! i love these ideas and will look forward to using them for the holidays next year! i'm also starting to save all my cards i get through the year and hope to use them to cut out gift tags; fingers crossed for the crafty girl in me to come out too! ps- i linked to you today over at pink to green, hope you'll check it out :)
i laughed at your glue gun purchase as i was just on ebay the other day looking for hot glue guns after I got it in my head that I might start refurbishing folding chairs with funky fabrics!
Thanks for the great ideas for gift wrapping too!
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Love this post - full of lots of great ideas. Love your pretty Sigg water bottle too, never seen anything like it before.
This is a great idea!
I just started a blog about gift wrapping (http://thegiftedblog.wordpress.com/) and found your post while researching.
I love using plain old kraft paper, too...what a fun idea to just make a stash of baubles and then bust them out when you have a gift to wrap!
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