gift wrap

Wrapping Christmas Gifts
Gift wrapping paper is how we usually wrap a gift, that or a gift bag full of tissue paper. Yes I am one of those what is the easy way out kind of girl, but I do dress the package up so it looks like I spent a little more on the gift.
This year I have also wrapped most of my gifts in the cute little Christmas tree paper. But I am going to try to think of some “green” gift wrapping ideas. I have read some magazines that have shown some cute ideas along with some of my own.
First off I love the magazine Ready Made, it has some really cute ideas. I am giving my sister in law a stack of cooking books for Christmas and I wanted a creative idea to wrap them. I found that you could take an old shirt (I am going to use flannel) and wrap up anything. I think this is what I will do with her gift. Then I will add the cookie cutters on the outside for a bow like feel. And to give a hint onto what is in the gift. What about an apron.
Taking a paper mache box and decoupaging it, and decorating it, and using that box to put your gift in. You could use this method more than once.
Another one I a lot of the time I use. I put my gift inside a basket, bowl, box, etc. This way their wrapping is their gift too!
Some other ways of wrapping online were
-a cigar box
-http://www.furochic.com/
-cereal boxes into gift wrap, you can cover then with any sort of paper
-wrap the boxes in old maps or even new ones that you never use for that matter
-wrap with magazine pages for those small presents
-sew a bag, a reusable one, out of cloth, they are not that hard to make, give it a try
-http://www.squidoo.com/ecofriendlygiftwrapping
-http://www.wholeliving.com/article/eco-gift-wrap
-http://www.dannyseo.com/ some books I found that are definitely going on my want list

Hope these are some great ideas that you can use for that last minute wrapping.

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Im dreaming of a green Christmas

So I have been very busy recently. My brother just got married last Saturday so most of my focus was on that. I have wanted to blog for a good while now. So today I finally am getting the chance. After spending most of my morning out and about on this Black Friday, I have come home with almost nothing. But that is okay with me. I like to make things. I like to have a story behind each of my gifts. I like to pray for each person that I am making that item for. I did get two cricut cartridges for myself which were on sale at Michaels so that I could make some cute things with them. I am excited about those.

So onto my handmade Christmas. I have a lot of ideas for handmade and a "green" Christmas. Here are a few ideas:
1. Going to make ornaments out of cardboard and paper. Decorated with glitter.
2. Artwork
3. Candles from my mother-in-law
4. Making a random assortment of cards. So that they could use them through out the entire year. Using recycled papers. I found this one here, for a possible card.
5. A shirt cape for my nephew
6. Fabric flowers for my niece
7. Old crayons to new ones
8. Baking
9. Rolled up Magazine frames
10. Another apron made out of a curtain,vintage buttons, and a table cloth, I made one for my friend a while back and it turned out so cute.

There may be other things I will make but that is what I am going to leave you with for now.

Ill leave you with a few things to go and check out:
**An interesting article and website that you should check out Fave Crafts
**Who would of thought, Have a computer geek that you need to get for, check this out
**Craft Critique