Like all people I love the holidays but unlike most people I also love to wrap all the gifts. Each year I pick out corresponding papers and tags and ribbons and love to sit on the floor in my living room watching the television and wrapping away. My dream is to live in the Spelling mansion and have a room just for wrapping gifts. One day! Until then the floor in the living room works fine.
I think the reason I love wrapping so much comes from when I was kid. My dad owned a greenhouse when I was younger and I remember all the beatiful trees and gifts and wreaths and snowvillage that was put on display every year. I loved watching the teams putting together the displays and wrapping the boxes and making those beautiful huge designer bows. Then as I got older my mom taught me how to make them too. And believe it or not I actually had a job wrapping gifts for people when I was home for holidays in college.
So this year I decided to try something new. I have to admit that again I saw most of these ideas on Pinterest. I bought lots of brown craft paper at the dollar store and stocked up on red ribbon from Michaels. I also used red yarn from a previous craft to make my own little pom poms for the packages. (Pom Pom Instructions) While it is not as shiny or colorful as years past I quite enjoy the results.
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