Gift wrapping ideas
11-08-2010, 03:38 AM
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I have done this for years. Children love to get a gift wrapped in Newspaper Comics. Besides that, when you are a single mother and money is tight, the cost is very inespensive.
My son uses newspaper to wrap his gifts, if funnys are available he uses them.
Originally Posted by Nanjun
Originally Posted by kreinhart742
Wrap in fat quarters, or if a quilt wrap in a pillowcase to match. My brother in law used to use comics to wrap all his christmas gifts with.
11-08-2010, 04:58 AM
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I purchased some plain brown paper 10 mts about $4 months ago , and everytime the little ones come over we roll it out on the kitchen bench and drawn on it , play O & X on it , draw around our hands and have to draw bling it them , we have had so much fun , this is what I will wrap there christmas goodies in , and there are wonderful memories on it . Cathy
11-08-2010, 06:20 AM
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OOOOH...what wonderful idea. Thank you for asking the questions and to all the wonderful answers. I too hate using and wasting all that paper. Since i have little ones we give gifts in bags and ask the recipient to please reuse for another child.
11-08-2010, 11:53 AM
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I love the idea of wrapping in a pillowcase! My oldest daughter like to make dresses for my youngest by cutting arm holes and a neck hole into all our pillowcases....so I can never have enough pillowcases.
11-08-2010, 02:58 PM
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11-08-2010, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by prayerquilts
Someone started a list of gift ideas. How about a list for ideas for wrapping gifts?
Or make gift bags from fabrics.
11-08-2010, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Tilladare
All of our gifts this year will be "wrapped" in reusable grocery bags. This will put an average of 3 bags into each kitchen. We are making a special effort to find nice ones that are not marked for a particular store so that the recipients can shop wherever they like.
Now to practical--------I've made probably a hundred shopping bags from rummage sale pants and skirts. Some very pretty.
Have also made a couple dozen pillowcases-----but they are mostly gifts unto themselves.
11-08-2010, 04:10 PM
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http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/projec...terns_ss1.html
Here are a lot of bag ideas with instructions.
Here are a lot of bag ideas with instructions.
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