So……Christmas will be here SOON! I know, I know….some of you are like, “oh PLEASE don’t talk about Christmas before Thanksgiving!” and others are like “We should have started talking about this in August!” ๐ Well, I decided I would go ahead and give you a few ideas about gift wrapping because I know lots of you will have gifts by the day after Thanksgiving!! Apparently, Black Friday has turned into Black November because I’m already getting ads! Any excuse to go shopping works for me!
One video that I found on Pinterest that kind of rocked my world was how to wrap using the diagonal method. Have y’all heard about this? It will save you tons of wrapping paper (which means tons of money spent on wrapping paper), not to mention it might help save your sanity. How many times have you had a piece of wrapping paper and it wasn’t QUITE enough to wrap your gift? If you’re like me, you get irritated (and irritable), and you wad that piece up and cut another piece (or you wad that piece up and pour yourself a glass of wine for all your trouble….). So here’s what to do if that happens. Watch this cool video from a blog called “But First, Coffee:”
Pretty cool, huh? I thought she had some really great ideas! Here are some other cute ideas for wrapping gifts:
How about using candy as bows? This idea is from a blog called happy go lucky
Some of you may say, “Well, that’s a cute idea for kids.” KIDS?! I say for everyone who has a mouth! I LOVE chocolate, and I would LOVE to have a chocolate candy bow on ALL my gifts this year! We can worry about the effects after New Year’s when we make those resolutions for all of 2.7 weeks (what….is that just me?…..)
Here’s another cute idea for smaller packages – and this one might actually be “most” appropriate for kids:
You could also have a larger stuffed animal “holding” a gift!
Another cute idea just uses paper lunch bags. Use a hole punch and ribbon, maybe some decorative scissors to cut the top, and even a stamp for the front (if you like, but I think it’s just as cute without it!) These pictures are really more for wedding favors, but I think they would be adorable as Christmas gifts, too!
Or fold the top over and then do your holes and ribbon!
Finally, it’s always pretty to involve “nature” in your Christmas gift wrap! You can use plain kraft paper! You can get a jumbo roll at Amazon HERE! It’s only $16.99 for 100 feet. Add pine needles, pinecones, holly, mistletoe, flowers, or anything else you can think of using a glue gun and add some twine (get that on Amazon HEREย for only $5.99!)
If you like wrapping Christmas gifts, then I hope this post inspires you! If you don’t, then go buy as many cute Christmas gift bags as you can find!
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Till next time! ๐
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