I love to get presents that are wrapped, so many come in bags now that the wrapping seems so special. For Christmas I always wrap all our presents, usually on December 24th for HOURS! Last year, I did a few every day and happily in bed on the 24th at about 1am and not 3am!
I would love to have a “wrapping station” but alas, I don’t have an extra spot in my house. If you are wrapping presents this year, here is a little help….
How about a present wrapping tutorial? Check out the blog, Hideous, Dreadful and Stinky ( I immediately liked her!) and check out her present wrapping tutorials.
Part 1. Preparing your gift.
Part 2. Wrapping Your Gift
Part 3. The Finishing Touches
What about thinking outside the box for wrapping paper??
I don’t know about you, but I have a TON of newspapers that I can use 🙂 Wrapped in newspaper with a bow is such a gift itself! They look so nice! Go HERE, HERE and HERE to see how they did their wrapping!
This might be my very favorite, I saw this idea a few years ago and went to the Goodwill store to look for shirts.
I bought the very cheapest and thinest material ones that they had. I paid no more than $.50 for each one. I used Children’s, Men’s and Women’s and they were so darling and fun!
If you want to give it a try, you can go HERE and see some good instructions.
I think just adding little touches makes the gift so much prettier looking. You don’t have to pay for anything either. I know you have been told to just walk outside and grab some berries or a few leaves from the ground, but when you actually do and add it to a gift it really looks nice.
I also buy much of my wrapping paper after Christmas and hold it for next year. I do this with expensive bows and tags at 90% off. That way I can afford to wrap a present like I spent a bunch of money on all the frilly stuff when in fact I paid almost nothing for it!
Part comedian, part Dad, part athlete. He will boss around your children while they play ball.
Just as angelic as she looks, this girl could easily raise a Village by herself, and all the children would grow up to be President.
Self proclaimed, she would be a webkinz dog. Because, "they're cute, and puppies are too. And they're sweet and they always get along with other puppies."
This mini-Martha Stewart can handle ANY craft you send her way. She isn't all bows and rainbows, she's got karate kid moves!
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Anything that can be destroyed WILL be destroyed!
Practically Perfect in Every Way for now! Nicknamed "The Panda" she is rolly polly and lives by the motto, "the little one, is KING!"
The resident Labradoodle, Miller got his name because Mom won and got to name the baby! Need something chewed up? He'll take care of it. Especially if it's expensive..
Sometimes Amazon uses thick brown paper for padding. That makes really nice wrapping paper!
Very nice but instead of the regular news paper i like using the comics section it makes it look soo cool and walmart has wrapping paper with lines on the inside i freaking love it (i cant draw much less cut a straight line to save my life).
Tiffany, I saw the perfect thing for you a few years ago, the article took an old changing table and turned it into a gift wrapping station, if you put it on wheels you can put it in the closet or the garage, they put all kinds of baskets on the shelves for ribbons and name tags and mounted small boxes on the sides for your scissors, you can pretty much use your own creativity to make it look like you need it.
oh wow that is a great idea! Brilliant!
Tiffany- is that a picture at the top of your wrapping station? If so, where did you get the wall mountable paper holder? I’ve been looming and looking for one like it.
No, it isn’t mine, I really wish it was!
I am the world’s worst gift wrapper. Often times I do just use a gift bag, but for Christmas this year, I did wrap all the gifts. I just did it really quick and didn’t spend much time on it, since I knew the results would be the same regardless of how much time I spent trying to do it right! I LOVE the idea of wrapping a gift in a shirt. My husband can always use new work shirts and this would be a great excuse to buy him one.
I recently read about using newspaper in another language as wrapping paper. Someone just gave us a newspaper that’s in Chinese (my husband can read it) and I thought that would be a really cool way to wrap gifts next year.
This shirt idea brings back sweet memories if my mother wrapping baby gifts in a cloth diaper or hooded towel, wedding gifts in kitchen towels or a table cloth, and we ALWAYS saved the comic pages to wrap birthday gifts! Resale shop pillowcases are a quick and easy gift wrap too 😉