Wrapping # 2....

OK, we left yesterday's blog with ideas on craft organizing.  Some people have craft rooms, and some have craft closets, down to under the bed storage.  It's all good, as long as we know where everything is when we are ready to use it.  Now many of us do the usual wrapping at the holidays like this....



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This is probably what my wrapping looks like, although I use the colorful paper for the children's gifts, and I try and put a really nice bow on the adult gifts.

 

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This lady's wrapping matches her tree!  She said she likes to be coordinated with her wrapping and decorations.  This is a different color for the holidays, but very pretty!

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Oh my goodness, this looks like a very merry Lilly Pulitzer Holiday!!  The perfect pink and green.

http://www.everythingfab.com/
These gifts are wrapped with some imagination.  I love this idea of wrapping gifts this way.  It brings a little nature and texture inside. 

http://www.chatelaine.com/
This gift is lovely.  Simple yet very elegant.

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Very pretty! 

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This is very economical.  Love the brown wrapping with the greens attached.

http://www.shannoneileen/
This is another brown paper wrapping, only used with stencils.  It looks like they even used bags to do this. 
Everyone has some bags hanging around, very cool wrapping!


http://www.marthastewart.com/
Who wouldn't know this is by Martha!  It looks very perfect. Very merry Martha.


http://www.christmaswow.com/
This is so natural and Merry!  So Christmas.


http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/
Here is another natural gift wrapping.  I love the gift tags.  That would be easy to do.  I like this idea.


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These gifts are so beautiful.  I love the idea of using all white colors.  It looks like it may be a little time consuming to wrap these gifts.  I would love receiving one of these.  It would feel so special, knowing that someone took the time to wrap my gift like this.


Gift tags with imagination.  They are so pretty.  Of course http://www.marthastewart.com/ .  I think I better start making them now so that they would be ready to go once the holidays roll around.


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And last but not least, these are simply beautiful!  I would love something like this under my tree, or any other time of year for that matter!

I found so many ideas for wrapping gifts.  All of these pictures are from Pinterest.  I hope you found them helpful as well.  Does it make you stop and think about wrapping your gifts with imagination?  I hope so, because it does make people feel special to receive a gift that is beautifully wrapped.
How do you wrap your gifts?  I would love to have a link up party, but I don't know how!
 Check out the pictures here. http://pinterest.com/susan_toto/

Have a wonderful day!
Susan

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! / Whats wrong with Blogspot???

Hello all on this holiday weekend with beautiful weather!  I can't believe they actually call for good weather this whole weekend.  I hope everyone is spending some time with family and friends. 

 


 Please say a prayer for the people that have lost so much with the tornado's that have swept through their state.  I can't even imagine going through that.  Where do you start?  My heart aches every time I see it on the news.  I feel so blessed to be here, where tornado's are rarely seen.  My prayers are with them all.

My thanks goes out to all of our soldiers who are on the line protecting our country, and the ones that have died in doing so.  I pray that you can all come home soon.  God be with you.

                                                                            




Now, I want you all to know that I have been reading all of your blogs.  I just can't seem to comment on them!!!  I don't know what is wrong.  Some comments went through and some are not going through.  Does anyone know what is going on?



I just finished reading another installment of the O'Briens clan.  Sherryl Woods has written a series of books called "Chesapeake Shores".  Each book is about someone in the O'Brien family.  These books are such easy reads and I just love them.  I just realized I was 3 books behind so I ordered them and just finished the 2 of them.  I have one more and then another one is released in June.  I love the setting of the Chesapeake, and the O'Brien family is like so many families I know.  If you are looking for a good read this summer, pick up one of her books, but try to start with the first one, "The Inn at Eagle Point".  If you like lite reads, you won't be sorry.

Trimming the Tree!

Well, it is that time of year, the time when we all get together and trim the tree.  Now you see since we are empty Nester's we have our grand kids come over and help us.  They get so excited to help, and when they are done it seems like all the ornaments are at one level and below.  This year we got the ladder out for them.  They loved that!  I took the pictures since I am chair bound due to my broken ankle.  They are so much fun to watch.  Megan who is 6 loves being the boss of Connor who is 4.  "Connor, you line them up and I will hang them."  "No, I want to hang them too!"  "My turn on the ladder!"  You get the point.

The tree turned out beautiful and they were so proud of the job they did.  (We did move a few ornament's around.)  Here are a few more pictures of them decorating, and a few of our ornament's that I love.  Some of the handmade ornament's I made for our children were given to them for their trees after they were married.

I really want to take a picture of our Byers Choice Carolers, but that will be for another time.
Hope you all have fun decorating for this Holiday season, and remember why we have this Holiday season!  It's someones birthday!