Gift Wrapping

Today I would like to talk about gift wrapping.  I was wondering how everyone likes to wrap their gifts at Christmas, or any other time for gift giving.

We can start out by looking at some of the ways to store your wrapping essentials.  It would be wonderful if we all had  craft room like these....

www.theprojectgirl.com

I would love to have one of these high tables in my office/craft room.  Love the colors, the green walls and white furniture looks lovely together.  I think I could really create in this room.

http://pattichic.blogspot.com/

This room looks great, love the chair, looks so comfortable.  I think she bought those cubes and built a craft table/desk.  I saw them in Michael's and AC Moore.  Very functional.

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I like how this lady has a table for everything!  Craft table, sewing table, and I see another table back there.  She is very serious about her craft.  So organized.

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This room is so feminine.  Love the pink walls with white and green furniture.  The shelving looks awesome with her fabric all folded up.  I see some handbags over there on the desk, I wonder if she made them?

I really love those frame handbags!

This is a nice area for your crafts.  It looks like there is peg board on the wall, which is awesome!  You can hang anything on that wall.  I think my favorite thing in this room is the tall basket with the wrapping paper in it!  I would love to find one of those.

I really like how this lady stored all of her ribbon.  I have something similar to this, and I love how you can keep all the ribbons at hand.  You can see what you have right there.

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Now this is a cool way to store your wrappings.  It is quite handy when you don't have a lot of space to spare.  You know where everything is that you need to wrap with.  When done, close the door! 

www.apartmenttherapy.com

I have seen this done so many times.  A closet craft room.  You can really have fun with this kind of space.  I have seen it decorated so many different ways.  After you are done, just close the door on this one as well.

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Talk about good use of shelves.  I love the organization.  It looks so neat and clean.  Looks like she has ribbon along the side.  What a great idea.

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I really love how this storage unit looks.  It looks like the drawers pull out and everything is right there, ready and waiting.  Notice the shape of the drawers.  It looks like they were custom made for this unit.  And decorated so nicely. 

www.centsationalgirl.com

This looks like it was built right in the closet.  I especially love how she stored her wrapping paper.

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This is great for people who do not have the room to hang or spread out their wrapping material.

Handy too, just slide it under the bed!

 

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What a great idea for ribbon.  You can carry it to where ever you need to wrap. 

Think I went a little longer then I expected to go with this.  Tune in tomorrow for the pretty wrappings for gift giving.  There are so many great ideas out there, I know you will love seeing them.

Until then, have a great evening!

Susan

Hurricane Irene 2011......

Well, we made it through without much damage in our community.  We lost some trees and new fencing that was just installed this year.  This is right next door to us.  Our neighbors lost their tree next to the deck.

The fencing below was damaged due to the tree that fell through it from the other side.

My hubby and I decided to take a ride into town and see what was going on there.  Couldn't believe what we saw!  This is the road that takes you into our town.  You normally would go over the bridge.  The building there is one of our Historic buildings here in town.  I guess we know why it has been empty for many years now.

A car dealership tried to get all of his cars moved.

Check out this guy's mailbox right in the middle.

Well, that's what is going on in our little town.  I believe that most of the rivers have crested now, so hopefully people can get cleaned up.  Things will never be the same for some people.  Our hearts go out to them.

Any one else affected by Hurricane Irene?

Susan

Time management

Ok ladies, I need to ask you all a question.  How much time do you spend reading blogs?  I love reading all the blogs I follow, but I can't believe how much time it takes.  I do try and leave a message on each one after I read it.  I find them all very interesting and funny and learn so much from them especially the decorating blogs.

I am so excited, to have 29 followers now and I was wondering how to get more people to follow.  Is it the give a ways?
Any suggestions?
I do want to thank all who do follow me.  This is a new experience for me, and I really appreciate my followers.  Thank you for giving me your time and stopping by!