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....



http://www.lakeside.com/

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.

 

http://www.purplecrayons.shutterful.com/
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!

http://www.mydesignchic.wordpress.com/
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.

http://www.google.ne/
Very pretty! 

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/
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.


http://www.stylemepretty.com/
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.


http://www.prettypetals.typepad.com/
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

Home Tour Tuesday

Good afternoon everyone!  Today I am following Daphne from Flip Flops and Pearls girl, and Shannon from Webbisodes with their Home Tour Tuesday.  The room we are doing is the Home Office.  My office is still a work in progress.  When I am done, I will post the finished produce, but for now here we go, as is.

This is my desk where I do most of my work.  Write notes, blog etc.  My son gave me the desk when he moved into his new office.  He wanted a more modern desk, so Mom gets the hand me downs.  The shelves are from Ikea.

Since the room was already painted last year when it was a Guest room, I really didn't want to paint it again, or lets say, my hubby didn't want to paint it again. Now on the other side of the room is my craft desk.  This is where I scrapbook and craft things.  I am looking for a large bulletin board.  I have recently discovered on some other blog sites some ideas on making one, so I think I will try it.  That will go next to the shelves.

I am going to paint this chair white and put a cushion on it after I find the drapes I want for the room.  I think it needs a pop of color and I was thinking of lime drapes, what do you think?

And of course I had to add pictures of my sweet Grand kids, Megan and Connor.

I found this cute picture at Home goods.  I thought it was just girlie enough to add to the Ladies office.

This picture was from our 25th anniversary trip to Las Vegas.  Oh, yes, that was my body from way back, never!

This picture was way way back when the kids were first going to school.  That was when we only had two children so far, Jp and Stacy.  Their principal called and asked us to do a photo shoot for the local newspaper on going back to school days.  It was so much fun.  I just wish I knew enough back then to call the newspaper and ask for a copy.  That was my first Lilly skirt and top!

Well that's all I have.  I hope you enjoyed my office tour.  Hop over and join all of us.  It is so nice to get ideas from everyone.  It's our sisterhood!

 

Lilly Pulitzer furniture!

I just found out that Lilly Pulitzer is now making furniture!  Now you can even have a happy living room!  I am really surprised that it took them this long to do this, since they have so many followers.  http://www.spylestyle.com/2010/10/lilly-pulitzer-home-collection
There is a great little blog Sophie Pyle Styles.  She talks about decorating and design.  Today she talked about the Lilly furniture.  These pic's are from her blog.
I just love this chair!




OK, I think maybe this chair is my favorite!

This is such a happy room.  This would pick up my spirits every time I walked in!

Wow, wouldn't you love to be able to put all your Lilly shoes in this!



Well, what do you think?  Check out her blog, I am sure you will love it as much as I do!