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Find a place in your home
where you can set up a temporary gift wrap station to make holiday
wrapping enjoyable, not a chore. For example, you could set up a
simple card table in a guest room with a supply of paper, tape,
scissors, gift tags, bows and ribbon. Then as you buy a gift, wrap it
immediately.
I like to stick with one color scheme each year. Last year I
purchased beautiful rolls of paper from Hobby Lobby in black and
white and red and white designs. Not only did this look great for the
holidays, it also served as multi-purpose paper for birthdays,
graduations, and just about any other occasion for the rest of the
next year.
To create a year-round gift wrap station, consider organizing all
your supplies and storing them in one place. For me, that place is in
a closet in a spare room.
Inexpensive clear-lidded plastic storage boxes make great receptacles
for bows, gift tags and rolls of ribbon. Label the outside of each
container for easy identification. There are many different
storage containers and hanging devices made especially for holding
all these kinds of supplies. I have tried several, but for me the
shoebox system works best. Of course, if space is an issue,
then a storage device that hangs on the back of a closet
door would be a good choice. A large utility bucket also makes a
perfect storage bin for those rolls of wrapping paper. Mine lives in
the same closet, along with a box of different colored tissue paper.
Keep a supply of padded mailing bags, address labels, tape and
scissors in this area too. Remember, if you need to mail holiday
gifts to send them early before the holiday mailing rush at the post
office begins!
I love to recycle and
re-purpose wherever I can, so after the holidays, I go through all
the cards we received and save some to use the following year as gift
tags. Why buy new gift tags when you can use what you already have?
A gift wrap area is so simple to set up and you will reap the rewards
year long, whenever you need to wrap a gift. Everything you need in
one place - imagine that! WOW!!
Happy gift-wrapping!
Merri
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