Gift Wrapping Room

Gift Wrapping Room

Create a gift wrapping center: Gather all your supplies in one place and make gift wrapping a pleasure. Set up your gift wrapping center in the guest room or other designated area and include all the tools of the trade: scissors, tape, gift wrap, gift bags, gift boxes, tissue paper, ribbons, bows, and gift tags. Include shipping boxes, packing tape, and mailing labels if you plan to ship packages to family and friends you won't be seeing in person.

Garlands are like gift-wrapping for your rooms. Making them is an easy two-step process. First use wire and twine to construct a narrow length of thin, pliable branches called a base garland. Then you completely cover it with decorative greens. Evergreens can also be combined to create beguiling textures and contrasts; when woven through a swag of blue spruce, sprigs of seeded and weeping eucalypti shimmer like tendrils of silver lace. You can make garlands as slim or as full as you like. The beauty of evergreens lies in the length, color, and complexity of their needles or leaves, so most call for little embellishment other than ribbons.

Gift Wrapping Room