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!