I know it seems a bit early for a post about wrapping Christmas gifts, but my family is travelling here for Thanksgiving and I won’t see many of them near the Christmas holiday. We have developed a family tradition of sending the wrapped gifts home with each other when we gather at Thanksgiving to save on shipping costs.
I use the same paper for gifts all year long. I just dress it up differently according to the occasion. I bought this large roll of cream drawing paper at IKEA from the children’s section. Here. I’ve been working on this roll for a couple years. The brown paper is reused from a framing job I had done. The gift tags were all cut from an 87 cent piece of cardstock. I’m still working through a large stash of ribbons and string that my mom collected over decades and passed on to me. I usually color on the gift tags in colors that coordinate with my ribbon or string.
My cost this year was just the cardstock. Everything else I had on hand. The paper can be reused and recycled. The fabric string and ribbon can be reused and composted.
That’s wonderful. I do something similar with wrapping. Still getting through my gold and white striped paper of the last two years. Covers all occasions.
I love your gift tags and the ladybug.
Any suggestions for xmas gifts Fawn?
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I just give gifts to my kids and my mom. When my kids were very young, each would get a book, an article of clothing, a toy they had interest in and candy. Now they are adults, they might get a book or an article of clothing or a food treat. Not all three.
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Thanks. Think I might follow that plan this year. 🙂
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Your gifts look so festive. I use white tissue paper (a few sheets are needed) to wrap my gifts, or newspaper comics, or recycled gift bags.
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I love your wrapping. I especially like the way you colored the tags. They look like made-with-love tags and are super cute.
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Thanks! They are made with love.
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🥰🥰🎄
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Love it. Stealing it.
Also, I enjoyed the past post about cleaning the threshold. I have a million little things like this to do at our place.
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No need to steal. I offer it for free, as it was given to me. 😁
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