WRAPPING PRESENTS

A routine I've followed for years and years is to wrap Christmas gifts, with a theme. I've covered boxes in the Sunday paper comics with bright ribbons, brown craft paper with twine, white butcher paper with red ribbons, glossy red paper with lace, color coded tissue paper for each person decorated with penny candy such as strips of 'buttons', gum balls in cellophane strips, licorice, etc.  (the later is not a good choice with children or pets around).  How do I know to mention this detail??

Living a distance from our families requires shipping gifts.  So this year, to reduce the hassle of finding boxes and then finding other big boxes to pack the boxes in for shipping......

I've made fabric bags for each gift....a variety of ribbons act as closures. Yesterday we woke to 17 degree temperatures so it seemed like a great day to tackle this project.  Fortunately, I had a large stash of holiday prints at hand for the job.  This is a sample of what I did.....all the while trying to keep calm during the Green Bay Packer and Minnesota Viking game.  This is going to be a loooonnnng season with our Packer QB out, and the team now depending upon a 3rd stringer....but Packer fans never waiver....they will be back next year.....